Consider the best job that you've had recently.
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Consider the best job that you've had recently.
Let's call "recently" in the past 10 years. (What makes a job "best" is up to you.)
Regardless of how you applied, online, in person, etc. did you:
@futurebird I already worked for the company when I got my best job. The QA manager, who needed someone reasonably fluent with a computer, headed up a continuing improvement team. I built an interactive website that accepted, parsed and monitored "suggestion tickets" on line. He liked my work and brought me off the production floor to QA. That's the job I retired from last year.
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Consider the best job that you've had recently.
Let's call "recently" in the past 10 years. (What makes a job "best" is up to you.)
Regardless of how you applied, online, in person, etc. did you:
@futurebird I got recruited.
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Consider the best job that you've had recently.
Let's call "recently" in the past 10 years. (What makes a job "best" is up to you.)
Regardless of how you applied, online, in person, etc. did you:
@futurebird My last job (17 years) was due to a recruiter cold calling me. I've worked with recruiters for most of my career and often have been contacted with opportunities being presented to me.
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Recently, my girlfriend applied for another job at the org she's been working for as a freelancer for years. She got not chosen for the first round of interviews because she wrote her department head recommended her to apply for the position. (My idea, to show she has the backing of higher-ups inside the orgs.) This was read as lack of initiative on her part.
That sounds like a weird reason.
At small and medium organizations “hiring” is extra work pawned off on already busy people and simply being the easiest to locate person who those tasked with the hire can trust won’t cause them embarrassment is the process rather than reading 100 CVs
Calls to previous employers matter a great deal.
This is because smaller orgs don’t budget any time to do this work.
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I know the feeling of CV help feeling pointless.
But I've also had a glimpse from the other side. Almost all hires at my company are strangers applying through the process. How much CVs matter varies wildly.
CVs matter since it’s what the hiring committee will squint at while they try to figure out what to do.
Introduction letters are not as important in my limited experience with small companies colleges and schools.
