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Career recruiter sharing insights on job searching, hiring and the market.

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8 months

37 tech companies have laid off in 2024. If I was interviewing right now, I’d want these answers before accepting an offer - How’s the company funded? - How’s it managing resources in the current climate? - Why is this position open? - Is this company actually profitable? -

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@ConnorLibutti

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3 months

People don’t hate working in person. People hate: - Spending 2 hours a day in traffic - Paying to park at the office - Joining virtual meeting from a cubicle - Someone monitoring time spent at your desk over performance

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3 months

@MorningBrew Imagine this termination meeting. HR: “you’ve been a top performer but based on the output linked to your keywords per minute you’re terminated effective immediately”

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7 months

Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume. Don't put a headshot on your resume.

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7 months

PIP doesn’t NOT mean Performance Improvement Plan. PIP means Paid Interview Period. Do what you want with this information.

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1 year

People don’t hate actually being in the office. They hate: - Non-flexible schedules and loss of autonomy - Sitting in a shitty commute because you HAVE to start and end your day at the same time as everyone - Spending added time having to prepare ‘professional dress’ End of

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- Recruiter messages me about a job. - I say I’m not interested. - Recruiter follows up a week later saying the hiring manager did not want to move forward with my profile. You can’t reject me if I’m not in process? I rejected you first. This is an act of war.

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10 months

@unusual_whales Wages rising in real terms? Nope. Plentiful jobs? Yeah, the terrible ones, which is why they are open.

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7 months

If you don’t understand job hopping, you’re bad at math. Take 2 top performers both starting with 100k base over 6 years. Candidate A stays with an employer for 6 years with a 5% annual raise. Candidate B gets a consistent 5% annual raise too, but changes in year 3 and 6 to

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8 months

23 job boards that aren’t LinkedIn. Diversifying your approach is key. Job Boards: 1) Remote[.]co 2) Dynamite Jobs 3) Himalayas 4) SkipTheDrive 5) RemoteOK 6) Jobspresso 7) Remote Jobs Club 8) Just Remote 9) Dice 10) BuiltIn 11) Dribble 12) Remotive 13) JustRemote 14) Career

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10 months

LinkedIn doesn’t want you to get a job through applying, so do this instead. Every LinkedIn job recommended is promoted. They make money off it being live, not you getting hired. Here’s how I’d look for jobs instead. - Company career pages - Dice - We work remotely -

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4 months

Personally, if a candidate even answers the phone for our scheduled call it’s a huge red flag 🚩 Being willing to chat about a role you are interested in and qualified for? Too easy. If it takes less than 3 contacts to hear from you it’s an automatic disqualification. Too

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I really hate the “open to work” and “hiring” badge on LinkedIn. They seem so….desperate for all the wrong reasons. Tell me I’m wrong?

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11 months

@unusual_whales How detached from reality does the high income crowd have to be while they take advantage of those who cannot work high income positions. It’s the same argument.

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7 months

Weird trend across all the jobs I’ve ever interviewed for. The more detached from the outcome I’ve been, the better the outcome. It’s a balance between preparation and being detached from the end result.

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1 year

What are under-discussed red flags when looking for a job? Any company that has a schedule listed for a salaried position is a major red flag for me.

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6 months

Me: “hey candidate great background that could be a fit for this role. It’s on-site. Interested in chatting?” Candidate: “is this remote?” Each day I drift further away from God’s light.

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8 months

@MorePerfectUS “Here’s 5 reasons you should think of your shareholders before retiring”

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11 months

A first in my recruiting career. Candidate knows an offer is coming and ecstatic. We talk on the phone and via email about timelines. Next morning confirm a time to talk about the offer. Candidate confirms it works. Doesn’t join our scheduled time. Assumed I’d get a withdraw

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3 months

I don’t know who needs to hear this but recruiters aren’t the ones who decided we can’t give constructive interview feedback.

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9 months

Finished reviewing 100+ LinkedIn profiles of SWEs. 70% had 0 work experience detail. 35% had detail on skills and responsibilities. 5% had detail on skills, responsibilities and impact. It’s easier to stand out than you realize.

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10 months

@unusual_whales For anyone wondering this means you should ask for 13k higher salary if in person to offset cost.

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8 months

Gut wrenching LI post highlighting realities of the current job market. They were scheduled to start their new job today. Signed the offer a week before Christmas. Only to be emailed Saturday that the company was no longer filling the role. Lost a client, don’t need a person

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Connor Libutti

8 months

Worried about the ATS auto-rejecting your resume? FWIW here's a list of 41 ATS that 43+ recruiters stated DON'T auto-reject your resume. GreenHouse Bullhorn iCIMS Jobvite Workday Lever Smartrecruiters BrassRing Hire JobDiva UKG ADP Dover ATS Gr8 People RWS

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5 months

Good morning to everyone besides hiring managers who have ‘urgent’ needs but can’t give candidate feedback

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10 months

Don’t put soft skills on resumes. Don’t put soft skills on resumes Don’t put soft skills on resumes. Don’t put soft skills on resumes. Don’t put soft skills on resumes Don’t put soft skills on resumes. Don’t put soft skills on resumes. Don’t put soft skills on resumes Don’t put

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7 months

@Adam_Karpiak As a candidate view it like a casino. It’s designed for the house to win (companies) Luck is a very significant factor. Knowing how to play the game can help, but most is still out of your control. Work on whatever can improve your odds of winning.

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9 months

@MorePerfectUS Color me shocked that rock stars, movie starts and PRESIDENTS are content doing their jobs. This article is the type of investigative journalism the world needs.

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1 year

Nothing is a lazier recruiting qualification than degree requirements. A friend with 5 years of IT experience was denied an offer. Why? His degree was in Political Science. This was after crushing multiple rounds of interviews. Companies valuing degrees over ability will

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8 months

Most hiring and job search challenges/hacks are tied to human psychology/behavior. Referrals = Social Proof Similar Companies = Liking Candidate Leverage = Scarcity Hiring for Attitude = Risk Aversion I could go on, but tapping into human psychology and behavior is more

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5 months

Moving a candidate to final interviews. They’ve consistently spelled my name wrong. How do I cancel their interviews because of this?

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8 months

LinkedIn releases 25 fastest growing roles in the U.S. Me seeing ‘Recruiter’ listed as number 9:

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Connor Libutti

1 year

I have a question I need help with. GF got an offer with a ~40% pay bump. I helped with resume, prep, negotiation and job search. The question is should I charge her, and what amount should I charge?

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9 months

@randomrecruiter “My weakness is that I care too much about shareholders and the value I create for them”

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6 months

If a company is interested in moving you through the process, there will be signs. You usually won’t need to follow up if a company is interested. I get asked “how long should I wait until following up?” And honestly, it doesn’t really matter. Instead of wasting energy on

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8 months

When I was laid off I never spent 8 hours a day on the job search. And if I was laid off today, I still wouldn’t. 2 hours a day of active searching and then I’d focus on job search related skills like: - Writing/Marketing for Resumes - Sales/Psychology for Interviews

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8 months

@randomrecruiter Agreed. Even in the current market, surviving the PIP and turning around perception is more of an uphill battle than finding a new role.

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4 months

Hands down the best part of recruiting. The dopamine rush when a passive candidate CRUSHES a final interview. IYKYK

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1 year

Anyone in the recruiting space leading up to the 2008 recession? Trying to get perspectives on how the current climate is compared to then.

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8 months

Job Search Outreach 101: ❌: "Do you have any roles that could fit my background" ✅: " I saw [Insert Job] on the careers page. It matches my experience with [Insert Relevant Experience]. Would you be open to connecting further or pointing me in the direction of who's

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1 year

Does any recruiter actually care about candidate LinkedIn headshots? I couldn’t care less, but talking about it seems all the rage.

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1 year

What’re recruiters thoughts on LinkedIn? While is the dominant platform, I see it being disrupted. Recruiter seat search results are getting worse. Job seekers have less success when applying to jobs on LI. The service offers are blanket promos.

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1 year

@StateOfLinkedIn The thing is @Jack_Raines tips work. Don’t knock it until you try it.

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7 months

I literally CAN NOT think of a worse place to find a candidate fluent in Japanese than Mobile, Alabama.

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8 months

Change my view: LinkedIn Profiles and Resumes are 2 different job seeker assets and should be treated as such.

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6 months

Flying to DC. Got to the airport and realized I forgot my wallet. Made it to my apartment then back and through TSA with 20 minutes to spare. Takeaways: 1) my Uber driver is a hero and got a huge tip 2) my GF can never claim I get to the airport too early for no reason again

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6 months

This is the craziest thing I have learned from recruiting across different industries and roles. Industry plays SUCH a significant factor in compensation. Salary can look wildly different for the exact same job in different industries.

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1 year

Hiring managers after not giving feedback for 3 weeks

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1 year

As a recruiter who has reviewed 10000s of professional resumes here are the things you need to stop wasting time on: (1/10)

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8 months

A LinkedIn connection asked to list me as a referral, and I said no. Few reasons why. I can’t speak to their skills/past work I don’t have a relationship with them I’ve never worked with them I don’t know them So I declined, because there’s no value in my referral without

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8 months

3 reasons I am betting the job market picks up VERY soon. 1. Planned Hiring: +50% of hiring managers plan to hire in 2024 based on Robert Half survey. Additionally, the number of hiring managers planning to leave vacated roles unfilled is expected to decrease. This is a

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5 months

Ultimate career cheat code: Make other people’s jobs easier. Do it by being: 1) easy to work with 2) someone who gets things done Literally, that easy.

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5 months

*candidate scheduled an interview time* Me: “hey [candidate name] is now still a good time to talk?” Candidate: “who is this and why are you calling?” Each day I drift further from the lord’s light.

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10 months

Job market is brutal for recent graduates. If I graduated today, this is how I would fast track my networking. Go to LinkedIn. Go to your college page. Go to the people tab, then location. Enter your desired locations. Start skimming those results. I would focus on 2 types

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9 months

3 most important factors to consider before taking a new job. 1) Learning - Will you gain valuable experience in the new job? 2) Earning - We all have bills, is it in line with what your skills should earn? 3) Your Manager - the most important relationship in a job. A

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1 year

LinkedIn message asking for resume feedback. I say sure send it over and can give a couple thoughts. They respond, it’s in my profile you can pull it from there. You can’t make this stuff up folks.

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8 months

Corporate jargon activates my flight or fight response. Who created ‘synergy’? I just want to talk.

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1 year

Things you can negotiate in an offer: 1) Base salary 2) Sign on bonus 3) PTO amount 4) RSU/Stock amount if applicable Things you can’t: 1)medical/dental benefits 2)401k % or HSA match What I miss?

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10 months

I went through 117 LinkedIn connection requests. 6 included a note. That is ~5%. 2 personalized messages. Literally 2 of 117. Your odds are better than you realize.

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1 year

Don’t share your current salary with recruiters. I don’t even want to know. Tell me what you’re targeting, and we can figure out if that works. There’s more value in figuring out your target number and finding roles accordingly, than adjusting your number constantly to fit

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4 months

> Passive candidate > Scheduled to start Monday > Email from them this morning How fast did my heart stop??

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8 months

A tale of 2 candidates from recruiter interviews yesterday. Both candidates had equally strong resumes. But the screens couldn’t have differed more. Candidate A fell flat. Candidate B knocked it out of the park. Candidate A required me prying to get information. Candidate B

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6 months

Literally 48 hours of having issues with LinkedIn Recruiter messaging functionality. Bearish on the platform at this point. It’s obviously it’s prioritizing itself as a social platform over an actual hiring platform. Any TA org with high volume of candidate interest with a

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6 months

“Tell me about yourself” or some variation of this question will be asked in interviews. And 95% of candidates don’t use it to their advantage. So do this instead. Look at the description. Look at the requirements. Create a roughly 90 second elevator pitch on how your

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1 year

A recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn defending the position of not using the open to work banner. Said it’s hard from him to work with someone actively looking because he won’t get paid and clients won’t hire someone actively looking. Ya that’s the issue

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9 months

As someone who was agency and is now a corporate recruiter, it’s wild how horrible working with some agencies are. Not all, but some of y’all I’m judging real hard.

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7 months

Some people peak in highschool. Some people peak in college. But me? I know when I peaked.

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11 months

Job Description = The Company’s Problem Resume = Advertisement to how YOU can solve the problem Interviews = Meetings to probe more about the problem and sell why your past experience can fix it Offers = Negotiating terms of your services

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1 year

Holy shit. Talked to a candidate who said someone approached them about a career search course. The price point was $8,400. You better be finding someone their dream job in 3 days for that price point.

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10 months

How is anyone supposed to work in these conditions? The conditions: getting dark at 5:30pm

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11 months

Open jobs report is the worst economic data point. Ask anyone looking for a job how exhausting it is right now. Think about this: System limits requiring multiple postings for locations. Multiple agencies having postings for one opening. Evergreen job openings. Bad

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6 months

After being in office past two days I have realized something. Something I didn’t realize working from home. And it’s that fluorescent lighting should be outlawed.

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6 months

Here is an example of how you can de-risk yourself as a candidate. Let's say your goal is to find a job ASAP and you are interviewing for an on-site role. You are open to on-site, hybrid, or remote with a preference for hybrid. ❌Don't: "I'm open to on-site but my preference

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7 months

‘Time kills all deals’ is something you’ll hear from sales/recruiting professionals. But it’s applicable to the job hunt too. The earlier you can get quailed applications in the better. - Create Google Alerts - Connect with you network - Create alerts for multiple job sites

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9 months

Ending the year with a sourced candidate accepting an offer. Under 45 days for a director level position. No agency fee. Keeping the momentum going next year.

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9 months

- found a LinkedIn profile that looked great - messaged and spoke, the interview was great - Manager thought the overview and resume was great - Manager screen went great - Scheduling for final interviews IYKYK: Too good to be true so far. Recruiters, how does this end badly

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7 months

Here's a simple 3 part framework I'd recommend for a first round interview for a role you applied to. 1) Intro This is the general "tell me about yourself" or "why are you interested" question. Plan to get hit with this or some variation. But don't take it literally. Use it to

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This is the process of how recruiters review applications and decide to schedule an interview. - Opening ATS applications and manually reviewing - Starting at the top and moving to the bottom - Skimming for keywords in the experience And then something catches attention and I

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“We ONLY hire A level talent. We are a team of top performers. We offer competitive salaries for our industry” The salary:

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6 months

When you need to use the Uno Reverse card in an interview.

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5 months

Logging into LinkedIn and seeing everyone arguing about wearing hoodies to interviews reminds me why I don’t log into LinkedIn

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5 months

Found a phenomenal LinkedIn profile with great content. Copied and pasted into ChatGPT. Asked it to create a search string for LinkedIn recruiter to find similar profiles. Plugged the search string into recruiter. The results? 0 candidates in the search results. Not even the

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If you’re in the US/Canada, don’t put a photo on your resume. Zero upside, all downside. Waste of space Unnecessary But the worst? Creates potential for your getting ignored to avoid discrimination risk. Take it off.

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1 year

Major Signal: 497k jobs added in June with jobless claims raising by 12k. Hiring is going to start accelerating from here. My opinion is that regardless of confirmation we hit the bottom already. Interest rate sensitive companies were hit. Enterprise orgs did layoffs

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1 year

What’s your biggest pet peeve of the recruiting process? I can’t stand when the say someone is too focused on compensation. Like cmon y’all are a business act like a business. Money is the motivation here.

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5 months

When it comes to resumes focus on simple. Simple to read. Simple to understand. Simple to realize your fit. The easier it is for your audience to understand why you’re a fit, the better. They don’t have the knowledge you do, so make it clear and simple.

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7 months

General LinkedIn population SIGNIFICANTLY overestimates what recruiters have final say on.

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9 months

Cybersecurity is the space to target and here’s why. BLS predicts 32% growth rate vs 3% avg growth rate for all occupations. Increased demand due to recent hacks. - MGM - Okta - Xfinity Enterprise companies all hacked recently. I’m betting on a HUGE amount of demand in

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1 year

Resumes have been worse than usual. Has to be driven from AI tools and ChatGPT. 95% are incredibly generic and commoditized at this point.

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@randomrecruiter You either need to be out of range on salary or willing to work for free. Anything between is desperate.

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1 year

Hirings back ladies and gents! First time in months, but was contacted on LinkedIn about a TA opening. That’s the only economic indicator needed. (beyond the sarcasm, positive signal)

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7 months

Strong interview answers focus on 1 of 2 topics: - Your accomplishments - Past problems you’ve solved Baseline for strong interview answers.

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7 months

If we hit an accelerated hiring market in the next 2-3 years, it’s going to be insane. Nothing but speculation, but interesting dynamics right now. - People tolerating full time RTO because no options - Certain jobs like TA experiencing a steep regression in comp based with

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1 year

Pros of recruiting: working with people. Cons of recruiting: working with people.

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10 months

A theory for why LinkedIn is the most frustrating site to apply for jobs. Bare with me as this will be long in order to connect some dots, but important. TLDR at the end. Background: I am constantly seeing posts on LinkedIn about high number of applications with no success.

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11 months

The worst part about job searching is your reward being a new job.

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6 months

Hardest part of the job search? Going from application to interview. Hands down. Easiest way to do it? Referred by your network.

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7 months

PSA: you can look for a new job whenever you want. Just started and it’s not a fit? You can look. Taking a bridge job in the short term? You can look. Up for a promo? You can look.

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9 months

Emotionally detach from your resume. It isn’t a reflection of you. It’s a marketing document to show why you’re a fit. It’s not a career summary. Dont treat it as anything more than an advertisement to get interviews.

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When an agency and I are both sourcing on a role and only my candidate makes it to final interviews

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