Questions tagged [recruitment]
The process of finding potential new employees.
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Is it ethical to apply directly for a job after a recruiter declines to submit you for the role?
Recruiter A contacted me about a job on LinkedIn. I said I was interested, and we set up a day for Recruiter A to call me to talk about the job. Recruiter A never called, never replied to LinkedIn ...
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Reputable vs personal reference vs let the company decide
The company I applied to is asking for references.
I have some options, and I am not sure which is best. They are along the line of "PhD student whom I collaborated rather closely on a project&...
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Is there any issue if I make my prior job title more generic on my resume? For ex: "Sr Marketing Associate" versus "Sr Digital Marketing Associate"
I am working on updating my resume, and I was thinking about changing how I present my prior job title(s). I want to make clear, I am NOT suggesting overstating my title (saying I was a Manager when I ...
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Where do recruitment agencies find open positions?
I want to cut out the middlemen and work C2C for future contracts, but rarely see C2C positions posted. However there's no shortage of contract jobs from recruitment agencies and I would like to ...
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Why are 3rd party recruiters claiming to submit me to a hiring manager but not doing it? [closed]
Over the last 2 months I've had multiple recruiters interview me and then claim they are going to submit me for the job we discussed, they send me an email stating "I have submitted you for x job&...
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How can I improve my chances of getting a job in Europe as a Resident Third-Country-National?
The backstory
I'm a mid-senior level UX designer. I moved to an Eastern-European Schengen country from South-East Asia six months ago because I'm married to an EU citizen. My resident permit lets me ...
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How do I qualify for employment as an IT project manager?
Currently i am a developer with around 6 years of development experience in various stacks.
I have a masters degree in computer science and have worked in several scrum teams, partially as scrum ...
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Should I point out a mistake in recruiter's LinkedIn headline?
A recruiter I'm corresponding with has a grammar mistake in their LinkedIn headline. When I speak to them about potential roles should I point this out? Of course, as tactfully as possible.
On the one ...
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Leaving a role after a short period when you're not happy
This is something I struggle with. My early career, due to naivety, was many short jobs, like a year or less. I can understand this looks bad, however, the whole point of a probation or a role is that ...
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HR make false promises before joining
I'm from India. I joined my new organisation 1 month ago.
Before joining recruiter/HR make promises that I will be working on the specific tool I’m only interested in but after joining manager and ...
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Incentives to IT Engineers completing certifications successfully
I have a team of 6 IT engineers and would like to establish a good incentive model for them.
At the current state we are paying an amount to each certification acquired.
Is there any other way the ...
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Employment agency Manager asking for my passwords for all programs
Can my manager ask for my passwords? I’ve been working for an employment agency (privately owned) for 2 weeks as a Recruiter Account Manager. I received an email from my manager, asking me to email ...
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Finding H1B Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
I'm a technical lead in the field of software engineering based in the UK.
My salary here is a fraction of what it would be in the US. So, it makes financial sense for me to move over there, for at ...
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Should I include non-technical degree and non-engineering experience in my software engineer CV?
I've got 10 years of experience as a software engineer contractor. Before that I happened to receive Masters of Medicine in a mediocre eastern Europe university. And before that I was repairing cars ...
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Asking for salary info after 1st interview?
A company reached out to me for an IT position.
Before the 1st interview I asked them what the salary range was, and they said that it isn’t shared or discussed until after the interview feedback is ...
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Applying for jobs, an offer is coming... and I do not know, it is the last or the best [duplicate]
Problem is the following. I applied recently for a lot of jobs (approx. 30), call them Company_1 to Company_30.
After many rejections, now an offer came from company Company_17. It is not very good (...
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Is getting an invitation to the office during interview process a good sign?
I’ve already gone through 3 interviews for a position and the hiring manager is inviting me stop by the office. The order of my interviews were abnormal (hiring manager, recruiter, SVP) brining ...
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which one would you say, I've passed my probation or employer extended? [closed]
Today it's been 3 months since I've started working for my company. Couple weeks ago I got a letter my salary will increase from July. And a few days ago I've been asked to take part in recruitment ...
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Job hunting while ongoing first project
So, I have been working at a company for 13 months and I really want to finish the project I'm working on. It's really just a good way to increase my experience and to prove my competences. And I'm ...
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Unfair reduction process
My wife has worked in a senior position for about 6 years. She is the most experienced person in the department and has high degree qualifications. This month, the company announced it will reduce ...
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How to renegotiate my salary request during the hiring process?
TLTR: I am in the hiring process and my salary expectation was based on incorrect assumptions, how should I renegotiate it during the hiring process?
Situation: I am currently in the recruiting ...
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Salary "red flags" spotted with industrial PhD sponsor
I'm currently doing a STEM PhD at a top UK university that is partly sponsored by a private company. I have had all sorts of indications from numerous people that working for that company once my PhD ...
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IT Certification to cover basic IT skills [closed]
Which well known IT certifications will cover the following (or get close to it)?
We need to extend our recruitment process with a technical assessment of the candidate, and would like to pass them on ...
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LinkedIn: Missing opportunities due to mismatch between job title and job function
My job title is Applications Engineer. In my role, however, I work fully as a Data Scientist. I have tried to indicate my job function in my LinkedIn profile in various ways, including in my Headline, ...
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Received a job offer email followed by rejection email [closed]
I received an email from the recruitment manager that my interview was successful however, few days later I received an email from the system that my interview was unsuccessful. I was really happy ...
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How does one handle name changes of employers on Linkedin work history?
Working in the IT field and having skills that are in demand, I have changed jobs quite a lot over the years. My Linkedin profile lists around a dozen positions. Due to mergers, acquisitions or just ...
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Advice please: recruiter spilled too much of the beans and I don't want to jeopardize their career
A really large company very actively recruited me, and is planning on flying me out soon, however, I don't want to interview and no one is answering the phone/email for me to cancel the flights/rental/...
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Reimbursement for time-consuming recruitment process?
I am in process of being hired by a company - after 3h of recruitments we have came to agreement, signed it, and I am starting work next month.
Work profile is that I will be 'borrowed' to other ...
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Looking for a job while being new in the current position
A friend of mine was hired recently by a company (a couple of weeks ago). She applied to another position recently in a different company and she will have an interview soon.
We were discussing this ...
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Are applications to a general applicant pools useful?
Recently I've noticed many large employers have in their career portal the possibility to apply to a "General applicant pool" when postings may not be relevant for a candidate, but where the ...
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Do Software Engineering degrees look considerably worse than Computer Science degrees on a resume?
Universities are starting to add Software Engineering degree pathways, but traditionally people have pursued Computer Science degrees if they want to do software engineering. From a recruiter or ...
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How do I ask my manager for a Intern to Full Time Employee Conversion?
So, it's been 6 weeks since my internship started. It's gonna end in like 4 weeks. I have a mid internship review coming up which would be like a 1:1 with my manager. So I am planning to know his ...
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If a job that I applied to through a recruiter is reposted through another recruiter and the company's website, can/should I reapply?
I applied to a job posting through a recruiter. They told me they would submit my application and provide me feedback. They then fell off the map completely, and didn't respond to my follow ups.
The ...
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How to handle a long deliberate delay of a second job interview?
If a company confirms that you have entered the second interview soon after the initial interview, but refuses to give you a confirmed date & time for the next interview, which is delayed for a ...
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How could I better filter out job candidates who are trying to “extort” a better salary from their current employer
First-time poster and also first-time software hiring manager 😃
People are looking for jobs for different reasons.
When these reasons involve things that their current employer can change fairly ...
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It is standard to reply to recruiters immediately with a salary demand?
When I am contacted by a recruiter regarding a position, I reply by giving them my current salary and request a 20% raise to consider the position and then attach my resume.
Is this standard?
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Do employers often advertise jobs that do not exist?
This article contains the following claim:
Often employers advertise jobs that don’t exist, hoping to find people
who might be useful later on or in a different context.
The article is decrying ...
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How valuable are logic test results during developers' recruiting process? [closed]
I was recently asked to take a logic test (it seems a lot like IQ test) from Alva Labs by the recruiter. I scored 6 of 10 (which is considered average).
However, right before that I had another test - ...
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Applying directly for a different role at same company that recruiter has informed me about
I am a recent graduate looking for work and a 3rd party recruiter has contacted me back about position A at a company. Over the phone they said they would put forward my application to the company but ...
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Compensation decreased after recruiter fixed offer letter errors
My original offer mistakenly said it was for short term employment, thankfully after a lot of time, the internal recruiter had fixed it.
However, since a week has passed, she claims the stock values ...
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Recruiter keeps messing up offer letter
I got an offer but the recruiter keeps making mistakes on the offer letter. I have asked her to fix it twice and somehow she adds an end date that shouldn't exist.
I have reached out to her last ...
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Should an IT consulting firm require Social Security Number for job search program?
Just made an account to ask this.
I applied to an IT staffing company on Handshake and got a call the next day.
They say that they offer an 8-week training program working on a project in front-end, ...
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How to politely state moral objection
I am currently starting to look for my first job, and thanks to my soon to come degree, I have quite a lot of people knocking at my door.
For political reasons, I refuse to entertain any possibility ...
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After rejection letter company calls for second interview [closed]
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Should I tell a prospect manager that I am waiting on another offer?
A month after I got a rejection letter the company called for second interview and this time ...
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Potential miscommunication by recruiter cost me the job? What are my options?
I have a potential case of miscommunication by a recruiter which may have cost me my job offer. Though it also may be in part due to my stance.
I applied for a job at a much larger company at x salary ...
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How do companies/employers fill roles when they have unrealistic or below-market salary expectations?
I've had a couple of interesting experiences lately, and it has me wondering, how do companies fill positions when they have below-market compensation budgets?
I had a recruiter reach out to me about ...
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Which countries don't require employers to have a local entity to hire someone (not even an EOR)?
Which countries don't require employers to have a local entity in order to hire software engineers locally? I know you can use an Employer of Record, but which countries don't even require that. I.e. ...
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Recruiting agency asked me to find a family member fill in I-9
I am a recent graduate and was offered a position at a scientific company though a recruiting agency. Although I will be doing work for the scientific company, I will technically be an employee of the ...
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Should I tell a prospect manager that I am waiting on another offer?
I am in a situation where I have company A extending a job offer.
But I am waiting on company B who I'd like to work for more to extend a job offer which they have not yet.
I was wondering if it would ...
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How should one handle a recruiter emailing you about an obviously irrelevant job?
I've spent my entire career as a software engineer. Every once in awhile, a recruiter will email me about some obviously irrelevant job. For example, I recently had a recruiter email me about a ...
