Skip to main content

All Questions

Tagged with
137 votes
20 answers
31k views

How to disclose negative information about a candidate when I'd rather not reveal its source?

We are a small start-up and I'm one of the senior members. After a hard work day, I went to a bar, where I met an attractive young nonlocal man. We had a one-night stand. We conducted job interviews ...
user avatar
42 votes
5 answers
8k views

How to approach applying for a job at a company owned by a friend?

A friend of mine is the CEO of his own small business. We're not very close friends, but we know each other well enough to have visited each other's houses for dinner and drinks a few times. His ...
Bob Tway's user avatar
  • 3,527
15 votes
3 answers
9k views

Omit a doctorate from resume if overqualified?

I have a Ph.D. and recruiters have told me that employers will view me as overqualified for certain positions and will therefore not consider my job applications. I'm considering omitting my Ph.D. ...
3.1415926535897932384626433...'s user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
1k views

Should I tell prospective employers about a brain injury?

I'm re-entering software engineering in the USA after 3 years unemployment due to a brain injury. I've recovered 85-90% cognitive function, which is as good as it will ever be. Unfortunately, there ...
user avatar
7 votes
5 answers
16k views

Is it alright to ask for a copy of your diploma or transcript of records from your HR Department?

I am currently in the process of applying to another employer, and it looks like the hiring manager wants a copy of my transcript and diploma. I am currently employed, and I think I sent out the ...
Marcos Valle's user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
520 views

Job application website farms links to my social network profiles. Is it illegal, sketchy, or neither?

I submitted an application to a company through Gild.com, which is a service the company I'm applying to is using. I entered my resume and my basic contact info, and was presented with a list of 20 ...
user avatar
4 votes
3 answers
2k views

Recruiting company seeks written permission from current employer of the applicant

I've recently looked at a job circular of a certain company which was previously government owned (now privatized). In that circular they mentioned: Applicants who are currently employed should ...
Choudhury Saadmaan Mahmid's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
319 views

Contacting aquaintance in company I applied to without sounding pushing

Last week I was laid off from my first job. Once the shock was over, I started updating and polishing my resume. While I was having a look at my Linkedin contacts I found out that one of my University ...
Trickylastname's user avatar
1 vote
4 answers
526 views

How should I address my work on projects the company I am applying to has strong policies against?

I am applying for a planning firm that I just found out has a staunch policy against something, as referenced oddly from their website. I have years of work with that policy. It has been ...
Mikey's user avatar
  • 1,116
1 vote
1 answer
390 views

Should I call the company about my application if something urgent has come up?

I have to vacate my current apartment before this coming June 24. I had been set on moving to another place until I received in the first week of this month an email inviting me to a job interview at ...
Lv4422's user avatar
  • 63
1 vote
2 answers
464 views

Applied for a job a couple of months ago. No reply. Should I reach the Executive Director?

I've applied a couple of months ago to a very interesting position in a blue chip company (North America). I think I'm qualified for this position (my skills match the position's skills list) but ...
Marc Aurel's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Application Confidentiality [closed]

I applied for a job and then made it to being one of the two finalists. I asked on the application that my current employer not be notified. After I did not receive the job a memo was then put out to ...
Rapidan FC's user avatar
1 vote
3 answers
1k views

Is it ok to apply for a job position in a company my current company provides service to?

I work for company X which has a contract for developing systems to company Y. Company Y sent an email announcing available jobs to all people in Y corporative email list. I have an email for ...
Shell_Leko's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
184 views

Should I apply for a job through the recruiter or a friend? [closed]

I'm interested in applying for a job. I found out about this through a recruiter. I told the recruiter not now, but then I talked to a friend who works at the conpany and now I'm reconsidering. My ...
user70310's user avatar
-2 votes
1 answer
214 views

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 (...
Gray Sheep's user avatar
  • 4,875

15 30 50 per page