Questions tagged [work-experience]
One's past employment history, job functions, and different experiences related to the professional work environment.
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Why did my abusive boss insist that I take an unpaid leave of absence when I tried to resign?
I've been working at this company for over 6 years and for those 6 years, my boss has been an absolute bully. He micro-manages everything I do, dumps so much work on me, and then criticizes everything ...
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I rendered 30 days but left behind a unbalanced one category
The branch I was assigned to was understaffed so I do both workloads, for the supervisor position and mine as assistant in operations. I also do accounting entries, reports, checks, investment,...
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Work given is not in my area of interest, how to approach my manager?
I joined my company about a year ago, just out of college with a Masters in computer science. I work in a service based company and my profile can be closest described as 'data engineer/analyst'.
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Feeling bad about going home at the end of the shift [closed]
Does anyone also feel like they should stay extra hours at work or feel bad if leave on time while others are still there?
I don't have a shift sheet to fill or any control of my arrivals/departure at ...
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Does “part time” or “proportion of role” experience count towards 'years of experience' the same as full-time?
Following another question here I went down the rabbit hole and ended up on Calculating experience when you had two jobs at the same time? and the conclusion was essentially that 'years of experience' ...
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Does having two jobs simultaneously count for twice the experience? [duplicate]
I started my career as a Software Engineer back in February 2018. As of today, my experience is almost 1 year 8 months. In January I switched jobs (without any break between), but most of my time was ...
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Is it ever OK to refuse work?
I am an immigant engineer working for a large research organization in Europe.
I have been working here for 3 years, and have rarely refused any assignments that were given to me. Sometimes the work ...
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Am I wildly unqualified to take position offered to me at tech company?
Background: i'm a designer (38yo) but the last 10 years i've been in managerial roles in creative agencies. Recently, a friend (software engineer, 25yo) and I have been working on a business (digital ...
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How do i mention my work experience in my resume from multiple domains
I need suggestions on mentioning about my technical writing experience in my resume.
I have total of 4+ years of experience in Software industry in Company A as a programmer and I was also ...
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How can I make a monthly reflection for work improvement? [closed]
I found that reflection is very important for both our daily life and work. I have been writing a diary everyday from the last Match and things really are changing. I tried two times to write a ...
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Unknowingly joined scam tech company in the past. Should I include it in my work history for a background check?
A little background. My background is not a tech. I decided to join tech after self studying.
When I was working at a non tech company as a non tech position, I was offered a job from one of those ...
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How do you maintain satisfaction doing mundane work?
A new task at my workplace is reviewing hours of sewer system inspection videos. The goal is to note any and all defects observed. This work is not mentally engaging nor challenging. In general how do ...
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Getting new boss with no experience in the field
I'm getting a new boss (for several unknown reasons I was not promoted to this position, although I have the skills and experience), who does not have any specific experience in the field which he ...
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Pros and cons of working on a low-code development platform as a software developer
I was offered by a project-based company to be a software developer. But the company requires their developer to work on a project using OutSystems, a low-code development platform to make enterprise ...
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Do you think I'm a bad intern? [closed]
I'm currently doing an unpaid summer internship for graphic design at this small company. Right now, I am more than a month into my internship, but I keep thinking that I'm a bad intern.
I tend to ...
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What can you do when you are asked to do a potentially dangerous or odd tasks, unrelated to your main job duties?
What do you do when you are asked to do a task that is outside of your area of expertise?
Specific example - originally hired as a ported at a car dealership. You are asked to remove floor tile from ...
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What positions should I list under employment history/work for job applications if I've had unofficial jobs and have been fired?
I'm looking for a regular part-time job.
Some places I apply to require filling out a job application, which includes a portion asking for usually my three last places of employment/work experience.
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How soon is too soon to re-apply to a company?
There are a few companies I've interviewed with that I'd have loved to work for, but they've passed over me for "not enough experience". I really want to re-apply to the same positions but I'm ...
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If you have no experience, how do you say that you're capable of filling a position without appearing arrogant?
This is an extension of another more general question on job applications that I just posted. My question here isn't about applications so much as interview etiquette. I'm an engineer and trying to ...
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When trying to change job fields, how do you appear capable despite a lack of experience?
I have a degree in electrical engineering and I've been working as a test engineer with an engineering firm, but I'm interested in starting my own company and I'm looking to get experience in sales, ...
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How should I sell the self-learned skills that I have not used in my previous jobs?
Almost all positions related to Data Science are asking for skill and experience in some specific tools/software/frameworks etc (besides the relevant theoretical knowledge).
As a matter of fact, I ...
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In US federal job qualifications, can “one year of specialized experience” be spread across multiple years of work?
A lot of listings at USAJobs.gov have a section that starts like this:
Minimum Qualifications
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes (list of tasks)
If I do ...
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What to say and what not to say to a recruiter when he or she is checking in?
I have never known what to really say or not to say to a recruiter when he is checking in after assigning me.
If everything is going well, I usually just say that and often follow it up with "does ...
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Imposter syndrome when applying to international jobs? [closed]
Its my first job as android developer and i have been working here for past eight months.
At work place i am usually on my own when creating apps, there are no mentors or senior developers above me, ...
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Removing jobs from my previous career from my resume?
I'm a mid-career professional. About 7 years ago, I changed careers. The two lines of work are both related to technology but have little in common otherwise.
Line of work "A": I was laid off ...
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Avoiding dual employment via loss-of-pay payment
To give a perspective of my problems - I started my career as a fresher engineer in October 2013 in a Global IT giant in India (Company-A) but due to location issues, on 14th of January 2014 I sent ...
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My interviewer asked me to do a coding challenge in a framework I've never used. Red flag?
As the title suggests, I did a 20-minute phone interview for a remote software developer position. One of the questions was "have you used any frameworks with X language, specifically Y framework?" My ...
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Does a career change mean I would have to take a pay cut?
I am currently a mobile developer and have been that for about 7 years now and I have been in IT for about 10. So I'm an experienced IT professional. I'm considering changing careers to either cyber ...
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Applying for a promotion and noticed I have work history missing from initial application
I am applying for a promotion. I have been with the company for 3 years. I had a background check to get the position, which I assume I passed, since I have the job. The company claims they are not ...
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Can I put on my resume the experience I got while I was in school?
For the last 2 years I have been working as developer. Coming September, I'm going back to school for ~4 years. I will be studying and working as a part-time developer. After I'm graduated, can I put ...
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Is a personal laptop worth it as a developer? [closed]
I couldn't really figure out where to ask this question so I figured I'd start here.
I'm currently a junior studying CS at Uni and I've been using my Elitebook 8570w for 3 or so years now. It's a ...
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Can my job offer be rescinded due to dates?
In December 2018, I left my most recent job at a bank. Before doing so, I had been sending out a host of resumes, all of which said 2017-Present.
I also sent a resume to a friend to be referred to ...
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Mistake in years of experience in resume?
I have 3 years 9 months of experience but since notice period for my organization is 3 months so I calculated that I will be having 4 years of experience on my last working day. I have mentioned in my ...
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Will my work experience from a company will be considered without an explicit experience letter?
I worked at a company for 1.5 years, I followed each term and condition as I was fresher that time and I hadn't more knowledge about How IT sector works regarding documentation.
I had given a proper ...
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Are online courses regarded as the equivalent of professional experience?
My background is in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Last year I paid and attended android developer nano-degree by google course.
At the end of it I uploaded my capstone project on play ...
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Change name of work on CV
I am doing casual teaching at my University (Tutoring, marking assignments and answering student questions).
I am a data science student, and the papers that I am helping with are related to data ...
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Ex-Boss not giving me my experience letter
I am an international masters student in Germany. I started working in a company in August last year as a work student, but after 3 weeks of joining the company I went back to my home country as it ...
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Working for free vs Improving skills for a PhD wanting to go into Industry [closed]
TL;DR: As an under-qualified software engineer in Australia that came from overseas, should I offer to work for free or should I keep working on my skills before applying for a paid job after PhD?
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Sudden change of schedule to cover an other colleague [closed]
So today (Wed) I showed up to work and my boss told me (without any notice) I had to cover a coworker's shift on this Saturday because he's unable to show up for a family funeral. My workplace has ...
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Is this ordinary workplace experiences for a job in Software Engineering? [closed]
I'm currently working my first job as a Software Engineer. Prior to this position I've worked at places such as Wal Mart, Sam's Club, and Circuit City. I'm currently finishing my last two classes ...
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How to describe work experience from before the existance of the industry term?
Today I came across the term "Robotic Process Automation" (sorry if this is old news).
I realize this is something I've actually been doing for the last 8 years, although the term itself seems like ...
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Am I responsible for the work produced by coworkers since we are a team even though they excluded me?
I have been working for my current company for 7 months now and I am completing my two years in the industry in total. My company is a large enterprise, with relatively relaxed deadlines and flexible ...
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Too much for a beginner?
So I started working at a job soon after I finished my college studies. Currently, I am assigned a task to rectify some calculations in some fields of an application, of which I was given bare minimum ...
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How to apply for positions when one isn't exactly what employers have in mind?
I'm in my late thirties, and have been out of full-time employment for almost 10 years.
Prior to that, I worked for six years in software development and systems engineering (fields in which I had ...
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How should I interpret a comment made by a member of management at my new job?
I am almost a month into a job and the CTO says,
"It's important to realize that we don't expect you to know everything
perfectly. Based on our levels of conversation with you throughout
the ...
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Communicate to boss that the task I was assigned feels way to big/complicated
Like about a week ago my boss assigned me to a task, which to me feels way to big/complicated for me considering my minimal skills and lack of experience so far (I just graduated my bachelors degree ...
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My employer asked me to documented my IT Administration works, is that right?
I set up a network in the HQ and the site branch in IPSEC and set up Windows Server 2012 and 2016. I finished my IT work. Now my employer has asked me to document what I did. Do I have to write the ...
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How to ask the future employer to not inform my current employer about our negotiations?
I have just joined an IT company since 2 month ago, meanwhile my previous employer sent a negative feedback about me to my current employer.
I wish to leave this company because, it seems that my ...
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How to determine if a job is relevant work experience?
I’m looking at a job application and says “it is important to list all relevant work experiences.” This seems very subjective to me. Would I be able to determine what is relevant or not? What would be ...
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I am finally hired as a programmer. But I know “nothing” [closed]
I've finally got my first opportunity as a PHP web developer. The thing is: I know very, very little PHP. I studied programming logic while I was in college, I've always worked with IT infrastructure, ...
