@user8469759 what process does the prospective company have? If their process involves sending a CV, then you should do that
if they prefer folks to apply via a meet up in the pub, then do that
generally speaking, companies have a job board - this could be online, but it could be on a pinboard inside their office. All companies are different, which is why your best bet is to contact them and ask what they prefer
@user8469759 Unless you can find some example, or ask somebody who already works there, there's no way to know. Some managers look favourably on that kind of thing. Think it shows positive qualities and a good attitude. Others think it shows disrespect and is needlessly disrupting.
@user8469759 it depends if you know the name of a contact in the company. I've done it before. My brother had a contact there, I pitched up out of the blue and asked for him with my cv.
But be ready to be turned down
If the company has offices open to the public and you have the name of someone relevant to the job you're applying to, there's no harm in giving it a shot. You need thick skin, though. They may tell you to apply online
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@RichardU ... and that leads to non-stop whining from the "other" people who were being heard earlier, because the new guy has now knocked them off their "prima donna" pedestal.
@MaskedMan it seems people have had bees in their respective bonnets as of late. Is it me, or is there a level of meanness and snarkiness permeating the site?
@MaskedMan It could be me. I've got so many things going on in RL, including a missing family member, a family member with cancer, my own health issues worsening, and problems involving my children. Maybe I'm just touchy.
I tried to answer my question on meta, and I got the prompt: "Are you sure you want to answer your question?" along with an "explanation" of what editing and commenting means. I thought that prompt was showed only to new users?
Hello, My name is Conrad, and I was looking for a chat room like this. But how do I create an account? Or do I already have one, since I am able to type this?
Stack Exchange is so vast, and easy to get lost in.
@MaskedMan Might as well accept your answer on that meta to confirm resolution.
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@Lilienthal I tried, but apparently *twood made some stupid rule ages ago that I need to wait for 2 days, in order to ... guess what ... avoid "gaming the system".
@ConradR.SnyderII In addition to what Lilienthal (who, by the way, is one of our community elected moderators here) said, you can ask a question on workplace.stackexchange.com without registration as well. If you change your mind later, you can merge those accounts, but I guess that's too much info dump to start with, we will help you with that if/when you need it.
Honestly, I have to wonder if people are being intentionally dense.
@IDrinkandIKnowThings This question has nothing to do with the app design. You could just replace the app with an old-fashioned paper and pen bookkeeping of reward points, and the issue remains the same. "How can I prevent my employee from gaming the system by making fake entries?" There is not even any computer network involved in that case, so no network security or programming involved either. — Masked Man1 min ago
The question was edited specifically to focus on the "how can a boss ensure that an employee cannot game the system?" part, but people keep raising issues about network security, programming, app design, and other strange things.
@eipi Like Magisch said, don't go into detail. They will probe, but you just go back to "It just wasn't a good fit". If they press, turn it back on them. "I'm sure you've had situations yourself where the conditions were not ideal".
OR... another way...
"I'm more interested in this great opportunity than dwelling on past employers".
In essence these "why are you leaving" questions are designed to find out two things: 1) If you're a pathologic job hopper, 2) if you will slack off old employers
It's so weird, I think I'm ok after all this and then I go into this interview today and one of the people interviewing me has the same build as my (ex)coworker and I just about had a nervous breakdown
but it was my first job interview in a couple of years so I suppose this is how things go. next time I'll be more prepared
@eipi you've been through a pretty bad situation, so of course you're going to feel a bit off. You just need to practice what you're going to say, get into a positive mindset, and go get it! The proof that you can do it is that you already have in the past.
@eipi I'd better watch it, I'm in danger of losing my status as official figurehead of evil in this place.
A good interviewer will then ask a follow-up from a simple "What do you mean?" or "Can you clarify that?" to a more in-depth "What was it about the company / work that changed recently?"
A better answer would be "The position was evolving into more of a [support / paper pushing (but don't say that) / administrative] role and I wanted to stick with."
Do you have more reasons that you're willing to share (here in the chat that is)?
(Note that this chatroom is persistent and publicly searchable)
If it's the former and there are other reasons you can bring in (losing clients, failing projects, ...) the standard answer is "The company was going through a rough patch and I was worried that my job was no longer stable."
If it's the latter you can say "I wanted to grow more into my [specialist / manager] role but there wasn't any room for advancement."
If you're developer (Senior or Lead Developer) and you'd rather stay with code/design than pursue a management career, what are the available career paths at your company, or any you've heard of? How far can you go?
Is it possible to continue being a geek until you bite the dust or is that too n...
Even domain specialists are typically expected to work with people. They may not be in charge of managing entire teams but they will usually be expected to share knowledge and be a spokesperson/POC.
And in some companies they actually will be expected to build a team under them.
But are you asking about managing people or managing projects?
And if they tell you "Client X has a problem, I need you to sit down with their tech department and figure out what they need and how many people we'll need to get it done." ?
Best advice I can give is to do your due diligence in your interviews and getting a firm idea of what the day-to-day will be like and how the hiring manager sees the role.
It's something you can usually ask your manager about as well. Plenty of larger companies have some kind of management training but managers should at least be willing to guide people new to management if they ask about it.
@eipi If they keep press more than twice into why you left the previous job after you clearly indicate that you don't want to go into the details, it strongly suggests that this current job you are interviewing for may not be a good fit either.
@fordprefect Ah, so this is the carryover of a previously scheduled recurring check-in? Yeah, if you no longer report to him, then a non-project related meeting doesn't make much sense. Certainly not a manager-subordinate style "let's keep updated on your ongoing tasks"
@eipi I was raised the same way. It's not the case when you're interviewing. The book is excellent and teaches how to brag using "CAR" stories Challenge, Action, Result.
In all likelihood, your old manager doesn't actually think you need to meet either, it's just a leftover recurring meeting. Just think of it as "this meeting is no longer relevant, and I'm getting it off both our calendars". No need to even say anything in the decline.
@eipi This is why I always go for practice interviews to dummy companies. Early in my career, I once forgot to carry a copy of my resume, but thankfully I wasn't really interested in joining that company anyway, so that didn't matter, and I thus remembered to carry my resume to the next interview that I was interested in.
@eipi yep, if you stick to the facts, you don't need a good memory.
@eipi plus, put it in the form of a story, and again, it's easy to remember. Tell it like you're an old uncle telling the same joke for the 100th time.
Some people question the ethics of wasting other people's time this way, but I don't see it as much of a problem because these dummy companies are usually quite obnoxious, so their time is wasted even otherwise, and interviewing me might actually be a better use of their time, as they can hopefully learn to treat their employees and candidates better when they hear me.
Moreover people who complain about me wasting other people's time are usually not those "other people" and they dont offer me any job either so I just ignore their whining about ethics.
@eipi getting interviews is never easy, especially as you go higher up in the ladder. Nonetheless having some sort of a dry run is always useful. If you cannot find a "real dummy" interview, get a trusted friend to interview you. It is important to get yourself into that "interview mode".
@MaskedMan maybe I'll get lucky and have a few more interview opportunities this time. A couple of years ago my industry was pretty quiet and it took me a good 6 months to find a job
@eipi Whenever things go down, I always remember this quote: "sometimes things need to fall apart to make way for better things". I haven't had it as bad as Richard so far, but from the limited experiences that I have had, I have found it to be mostly true.
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