Questions tagged [recruitment]
The process of finding potential new employees.
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What should I do when my dream company is interested in me before my skills are developed?
There is a company I adore and working there would be my dream job. My plan was to continue working on my programming skills (which are currently underdeveloped) and then start contributing to this ...
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How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?
I work in a IT company that is deeply specialized in projects made with old and outdated technologies.
The biggest projects are usually a mix of Cobol (the oldest versions, not the most modern) and ...
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I prepared my CV in LaTeX and exported it to PDF. How to deal with a recruiter who insists on CV in Word format?
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I prefer to create documents in formats such as LaTeX, Markdown or RMarkdown. They're platform and version (of the particular editor) independent. You can export them to good looking PDF ...
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How to negotiate salary with an extremely unprofessional in-house recruiter?
I'm interviewing at a certain programming job. I've passed everything, the people doing the interview say they really like my skills and want me to join the team, everything's looking great, the ...
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How to avoid being sexist when trying to employ someone to function in a very sexist environment?
Let's assume I need to find an employee to act as a middleman/ link between two teams: IT and my team.
Whereas my team (and most of the company) is quite a nice place to work in in terms of diversity,...
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How do we recruit junior software developers in an age where everybody studies for the interview?
As a recruiter, I find it increasingly hard to recruit good software developers, due to the fact that it has become very easy to simply study for a job interview by reading any of those 14020 job ...
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Hiring "diverse" candidates has turned into declining qualified applicants. Is it wrong to object to these policies?
I work at one of the largest organizational consulting firms in the US as a recruiter. Starting last year and more recently, I've seen a push in hiring managers wanting to hire what they call "...
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Does diversity provide anything that meritocracy does not?
I'm hoping my question is less broad than this one. I work in tech and see many emails about diversity from our upper management.
In some sense, I can see this being used as a PR tactic: management ...
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Is it discriminatory to put "bonus" video game skills in a job advertisement?
My employer (a small company) is hiring an IT person. The person hiring and writing the job ad loves SNES video games and grew up around that time.
The job ad for the IT person has a section for "...
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Recruiter demanding I sign dodgy paperwork after joining job
I recently got a job through a recruiter. Everything has been going well and I've been completing my tasks on time or before.
The recruiter who got me the role is working with my employer on a part ...
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What do I do if a job that was (mis-)sold to me as work-from-home, later changed, on day one, to working on-site, everyday?
Yesterday, I started a role, as a contractor, that was sold to me as a home based job. I accepted this job at £50pd below my previous rate due to its home based nature.
I’m now told on day 1 that I’...
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Recruiter wants very extensive technical details about all of my previous work
I was recently cold-called by a recruiter on LinkedIn who had seen my profile/resume. The position seemed to be a very good fit for my skill set so I replied that I was very interested. Within minutes ...
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Company cuts my salary immediately after I sign the offer letter
Today I signed an offer letter with a big company in the US that I was very excited to work for.
Less than two hours after signing the offer, and after I withdrew my application to the other company ...
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Can I ask "How did I do?" at the end of an interview?
When an interviewer asks "Do you have any questions?" at the end of an interview, is it acceptable to ask (as one of a few questions)
How did I perform/do during this interview?
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Why is working on the same position for more than 15 years not a red flag?
I'm about to interview someone who applied for the same position that I have: Senior Software Engineer.
The candidate is 13 years older than me and has worked in the same position for more than 15 ...
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