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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 ...
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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 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 ...
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Is it acceptable to 'bypass' a job application web screening form? [closed]
I would like to apply for a Mechanical Engineering job, which I believe I meet all of the skill/experience requirements for, except that they are asking for a PhD on the job description, which I don't ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
user65199
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
