Top new questions this week:
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I had a final interview with company A. They sent me a formal offer (contract and all), and asked how long I would need to make my decision. We agreed to another call in 7 days, which, I’ve read, is a …
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I recently took over managing an organization in a mid-size company. From what people have told me, the organization felt really intimidated asking questions to my predecessor. To fix this, I’ve …
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I work for a small creative business of less than a dozen employees, with the founder/owner managing the team as a whole. I manage production, but am only responsible for one employee. This person …
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First thing first, I’m a engineer/scientist in industry. While the way of professional networking has been portraited as ‘helping others’, for example by supporting them professionally/make them look …
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I told them I need to give my current employer a notice period of three weeks. Then I received an offer letter with a start date which respects that. The offer letter says it is subject to background …
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I have been working in a start-up. I started out as a designer despite having 7 years experience. Some time after I joined, the startup started looking for a senior designer with 4+ years of …
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I have a second interview scheduled soon. I already had a first interview via phone and I got a bad feeling about the Hiring Manager with whom I talked to. The Hiring Manager sounded kinda weird and I …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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A friend of mine went on an interview recently for a software developer position at a well known company. It was a senior position, and he had very relevant business experience in the industry. I …
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I’m the owner of a business with about 30-40 employees. Recently, I found out that one of my employees has been having an affair with my wife. The employee has worked for me for four years. I felt …
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Four months ago, I started a new job and joined a project with a co-worker who has been employed here for many years. We were both brought on as experts, but he has subdomain expertise that I do not …
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I’ve worked for my current company for about 18 months now. Their primary market is consultancy – we get assigned clients, travel to their offices for the work week (from my experience this is usually …
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I have a software engineer on my staff that has been very useful. He basically trains himself on new technologies on a weekly basis, and can memorize and apply the latest O’Reilly textbook over a …
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I am the only female engineer in a nearly all-male company. The term “man hours” is used a lot when discussing projects, and I find it a bit jarring. As a woman, I don’t feel that I work “man hours”,…
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For various reasons, I only worked for a company for a few weeks. Is it OK if I just don’t put that on my resume, and pretend this employment never existed? There is really not much to talk about …
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