Questions tagged [recruitment]
The process of finding potential new employees.
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How to accept internship offer but keep the ability to renege?
Where most questions on this topic are about how to tell a future employer that the applicant is no longer interested in the offer, I'd like to know: how can I accept an offer for an internship with ...
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How to end the conversation quickly with head hunter?
I am at work, right in the middle of the working day. Surrounded by my respected colleagues. My phone (sound off, of course) starts shaking. The number is unknown. How should I know, maybe something ...
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Being heavily recruited at new company: Should I tell them I’m trying to get pregnant?
I read this question, but it’s about the non-pregnant partner.
A company reached out to me and is heavily recruiting me for a position that I know I'm qualified for. We're talking a $50,000,00 (USD) ...
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How to find out if a recruiter is serious or just wasting time?
I get a lot of calls from recruiters as I am looking for a job and given my last job(s) have been short term, everyone wants me to tell them 3-4 years of what I been doing.
What annoys me most are 2 ...
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Dropping out from an interview for a job you don't want
Once upon a time, a temp agency sent me on a job interview. There was a miscommunication (perhaps a mental glitch on my part) about the nature of the client's business.
As soon as I became aware of ...
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Referring someone whom you know personally, but not professionally
I have a few opportunities to refer someone to my current employer. I know them personally, but can't speak to them professionally. If they don't work out as candidates, will this reflect poorly on me?...
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What's an effective way to make sure I'm prepared for an online aptitude test while applying for a job?
I just got an invitation to participate in an online psychometric test (the first step of the recruitment process in the company where I applied).
I'm worried. I feel nervous and am scared that I ...
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IT company demands for reference
Reference check is the fourth and last step of the hiring procedure for an IT company who is trying to offer a job to candidate. The HR now demands my ex-managers contact.
I personally have no issue ...
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Re-applying for the same company after rejection. Email the prev. recruiter or apply in the website?
Scenario: You apply for a job, do seemingly well in the hiring process, go all the way to the end, but the stars don't align and another candidate gets the spot.
A few weeks later another position ...
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How to deal with recruiters who won't set specific times and who want to just call whenever they want
I am currently interviewing and usually the first contact with a company is with an internal recruiter. I have found most recruiters don't want to set up a time for a phone screen. They give only ...
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In an interview, is it self-defeating to say you use Stack Overflow to find errors in code?
Let's suppose that at a job interview they ask me "what you do if your code does not work?".
I tell them that I read the docs to look for the error, I isolate the piece of code that doesn't work and ...
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How to respond to “Are you looking for a job change?” question form an acquaintance on LinkedIn?
One of my LinkedIn contacts recently messaged me if I was looking for a job change. He is not a recruiter but a principal engineer in some firm. He appears to know some senior people at my current ...
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How to get on the radar of recruiters in the country of my choice (rather than my country of residence)?
How to get on the radar of recruiters in the country of my choice (rather than my country of residence)?
Background information:
I am an Electrical Engineer, working in software development (...
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Corresponding with hiring manager outside of structured interview
After 2 interviews with a hiring manager and a few members of the team, I have failed to learn long-term goals for the team (EX: What are the goals for the team over the next 2 years) or basic day to ...
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New guy promoted in less than 4 months (How normal is this?)
I don't use this site too much but majority of searches online haven't really clarified so I thought I'd make a post about this just to get a few possible answers.
I work in the operations department ...
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Dealing with recruiters who clearly didn't look at my resume
So today I opened my email and found another email from a recruiter who clearly did not look at my resume or any details about me. Here is the email (with PII removed):
Hi,
My name is [...
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Are there any published studies showing performance differences between overweight people and average weight employees? [closed]
Let me caveat the question first and say that I absolutely do not want to get into fat-shaming and also discrimination based on weight is not allowed in my organization and I would never consider ...
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Is there value in recruitment messages?
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About once or twice a month, I receive a message on LinkedIn from recruiters who state that they liked my resume and wanted to talk for a potential job offer or applying in their hiring ...
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How to deal with a disappointed recruiter that wants to call me regarding a bad assignment?
If a recruiter writes you this email after an assignment, beside the fact that it went quite bad, what should you do/expect from a phone call?
The recruiter is an internal recruiter for the company I ...
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Really personal info and in very early stage of hiring; how to proceed?
I applied to a tech company for remote work. This is a role I'm interested in, and there aren't many similar alternatives for such role.
After the initial technical tests (I scored very high) and ...
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Emailing Director of Big 4? [closed]
So, I attended a career fair where I got the opportunity to speak with the Director of Operations of a Big4 company. We had a very fruitful conversation about the company and his management style. He ...
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How to request internal team to quicken contract approval
I am a recently promoted team lead in the IT Security team at my workplace. We are planning to expand headcount on the team in Q1 of next year and are currently waiting budget approval from senior ...
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Interview for a different position turned me off to the company, should I tell the recruiter?
so I went to a conference the other day and had a talk with a company at a booth about a position that really excited me. The recruiters there also really liked me and we struck up a really good ...
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Personal notes to an intermediate report/performance review from a member of the management [closed]
As part of a project that I have managed (in the role of an entrepreneur), I have worked closely with a member of the management (N + 3) within the large enterprise I work for. He agreed to add a ...
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Why do IT companies sometimes use contracting firms? [closed]
So I have been in the job market from the past month & I have learned a major process flaw and big-time corruption in recruitment layers.
I do receive mail/calls from many fake companies ...
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How to weed out fake interview invites?
I've received emails from and have been to at least one interview where the companies were just inviting candidates to interviews to "pad out a candidate roster" as this article mentions.
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How to forward a friend's wife's profile to HR but not to refer her?
One of my friends recently called me up asking to refer his wife for a open position in the organization where I work. Being in a small office, I am really careful about whom do I refer. The reason I ...
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Can I ask HR to let me skip two more interviews and offer me a job directly?
I had 2 job interviews lately (one in late July and one in mid August). After the 2nd interview I got a rejection email but the HR (technical recruiter) told me the team (team A) I had interviews with ...
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Will recruiters skip Mechatronics engineers because they “wont know what it is”?
Im sorry if this is not the right exchange for this, but I couldn't think of a more fitting one.
Me and my friend are about to finish our Bachelors of engineering in Mechatronics. We both have good ...
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How to approach recruiters when on garden leave
I work in Japan and I've been put on garden leave 3 months ago so company gan get rid of me. This might continue for an extra 6 months (I shall decide), then I will be actually jobless (and maybe ...
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Headhunted for a role in a Competing Company [closed]
I have recently been contacted about a role from a company which my current company is in major competition with. My contract states that I cannot work for competing companies for 6 months upon ...
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How can I accommodate an uncertain budget when planning for new hiring in cybersecurity? [closed]
I was recently promoted to team lead role on the Security Operations team where I work, and will be qualified to have direct reports. Today, I was meeting with my manager to review / discuss the ...
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Can I use the same recruiter that I previously worked with?
There is this recruiter who I was impressed of the way he operates. The job he represented, benefits, salary and how he actually made it true that I got hired was really impressing. He is professional ...
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Should I disclose to company if the interviewer for a job is close friend?
I have a campus recruitment drive at my college next week. One of the company's panel/interviewer is my close friend. Before the process should I disclose this to anyone in the company or at college? ...
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Suddenly ghosted by recruiter after interview process, verbal offer, and continuous email
Disclaimer: Throwaway account, to not alert my current workplace, as well as potential future workplace.
My story started a couple of months ago, and it goes like this:
I see a very interesting job ...
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How much bargaining power do I have for an entry-level position?
I've read quite a few posts about how to cleverly negotiate salary and compensation package after securing an offer. However, as an entry-level job seeker (master degree plus 1.5-year experience), how ...
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Recruiter not disclosing where he got my phone number and resume from
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Normally when I am open for changes in my career I update my CV on some carrier or professional networking portals like LinkedIn, Indeed.com etc.
If something interesting comes up through ...
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How to respond when a recruiter asked me how I feel about the interview and told me they couldn't make a decision right now?
I just had my second interview about 10 days ago. Today I finally (the follow-up was expected to come up in 7 days actually) got an email from the recruiter in which the recruiter started by asking me ...
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How to persuade recruiters to send me the Job Description?
I know this will likely hurt my chances and I am willing to live with that. I would like to enforce a personal policy: I will not engage a recruiter if I do not see the job description (JD).
By doing ...
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How to answer: What will you try to accomplish in your first few months? [closed]
What will you try to accomplish in your first few months? I was surprised with this on a preliminary phone screening interview for a technical position and my answer was, to be honest, not good. ...
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Bypassing recruiter after talking to company employee?
I'm having a bit of a moral dilemma with a job application:
A friend sent me a role advertised by a recruitment agency, who I then contacted and met with to discuss said role. Following from this ...
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Is it OK to send a thank you email to only one interview panel member?
I had an interview this morning with a panel of 5. One of the members of the panel, I'll call Bob, is the would-be superior for the position, and gave me a tour after the interview. With this, I ...
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Should I not go forward with internship interview process if I don't have the time to prepare properly?
I'm going into my last year and a half of school at Georgia Tech as a Computer Science major and I was recently approached by a Big Tech Silicon Valley company about pursuing a software internship ...
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Should I ask the recruiting agency to cover/help cost of flight for my software engineering interviews?
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I am a mid level software engineer in California. I was contacted by a recruiter at an East Coast branch of a nationwide recruiting agency (not going to be more specific than that). Just ...
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How can I prevent my current low salary from affecting future salary negotiations? [closed]
In a few more months, I will be reaching the 2nd year mark of having been in the workforce after leaving university with a BSc. Most would consider my academic credentials to be above the norm. Yet, ...
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Missed and returned two calls with HR so far - Should I apologize?
I have missed, and promptly returned, two calls from the HR recruiter. One to schedule a phone interview, and the second to schedule an in-person interview.
Both return calls were about 20 minutes ...
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Should I tell a recruiter that I'm actively interviewing?
Let me know if this is a duplicate. The answers I found focused more on agency recruiters, so there isn't a double-application issue here, and they have an incentive to withhold information if it ...
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How do I poach a Manager, after I step into their store?
I own a fashion store in Hong Kong. In my experience, I need just 2 other employees if they have (Assistant) Manager experience. 1 year ago, they quit and decided to leave HK. Now only I'm left. I'm ...
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Recruiter is asking when I'll be sending application, should I tell him I'm happy to start the process whenever?
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I will be finishing university next year. I was contacted by a recruiter for a large firm specifically to establish early contact regarding "2020 opportunities", as part of an apparent ...
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Should I give the recruiter my SSN?
I've read other posts on the same question, this instance is a little more specific.
I live in San Francisco and was contacted by an Associate Account Manager at Collabera for a role in San ...
