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When applying for a job, should I mention that I previously declined a job offer from a sister company?
I have applied for a job at Company "A" a few months ago. The recruitment process went smoothly, and at the end I got a job offer. However, I politely declined the offer, since I also got a ...
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Is it ok to interview with other companies after accepting a signed offer with little acceptance time
I recently received a job offer from Company A that only gave me the weekend to accept. When I asked for more time to think about, the company (for reasons) firmly said I had to accept by Monday. I ...
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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 ...
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Interviewing at a company where I rejected their offer previously but they do not recognise me, should I tell them?
I was looking for a new job two years ago and applied to many, two companies that fit my search criteria back then, were going with the interview process relatively at the same time. I did very well ...
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How to reply to (what I consider) personal questions asked by recruiter I just met over LinkedIn?
I graduated a couple years ago from university with my degree in tech. I have had a lot of trouble finding a full time, permanent position that uses my degree. Recently I had a recruiter contact me ...
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Rebuked by HR on asking what is a good time to provide my salary expectation
I've gone through the interview process of a company which was largely positive. I got an email from HR asking for some documents, so I offered to speak on the phone. I asked if they were considering ...
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How do I tell recruiters I don't want to go forward until they answer my question, but without being rude?
I have now gone through this process ~2.5 times:
A recruiter from a company contacts me.
I ask what projects they have that I could work on, and if those projects use the technology stack I'm ...
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Interviewing at multiple companies, how can I stall one so the others can catch up?
I am a software developer, and I'm actively applying for positions. The average turnaround time for application through offer in my area and industry is about 6 to 8 weeks, which is a pretty long ...
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Is it a good idea to contact the hiring manager of a company that's going through a recruiting agency?
From what I understand, many engineering companies will hire through third party recruiters. The listings that I have read so far seem to intentionally obfuscate key information: which company is ...
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Received a recruitment email from LinkedIn contact at my work email address (from CEO of another company) - how to respond?
A few weeks ago, I received an email at my work email address from someone outside my company asking if I had seen a post they had put up on LinkedIn about a role they are recruiting for at their ...
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Being recruited to develop a product that is very similar to my own pet product [closed]
As a recent grad, I spent the summer alongside two others in developing a non-commercial web-app that measures music similarity through the use of AI
It caught the attention of a seed stage start-up ...
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Following up on an old email from a recruiter
I received a job offer in late April from a foreign company. Due to the situation with COVID and the fact that at that time I was busy with my final degree project, I was told by the recruiter that it ...
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Is it rude or odd for a recruiter not to supply further job details when asked?
I've had an interaction with a recruiter that I found slightly odd and off-putting, but I can't make up my mind as to whether I'm reading too much into it or not. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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How to disclose a temporary job?
I recently got laid off in early April. I don't have any savings so I took a job since in late April to pay the bills. The job is in a different field and is about half my old salary, so I have ...
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Delay start date on the other offer -- how to if possible
I have 2 job offers – one's already been made, the other is on the way.
I like them both.
I'll take the one that's been already offered, say job-1. call the other job-2.
I'll take job-1 because ...
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