‘Save the cartoon impressions for parties, not job interviews’: Interviewee torpedos their chance at their dream job by impulsively revealing a hidden talent

Since they’re just a delicate balance of oversharing and humble-bragging, job interviews can require a certain level of finesse that the unemployed workforce is ill-equipped to handle. How is an interviewee supposed to toe the line between sharing the best version of themselves, while also not over-revealing their talents in the workplace? Obviously, you want …
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Interviewer Rejects Candidate After He Guesses The Salary Range Incorrectly

There’s something uniquely challenging about negotiating your salary for your first job out of college. Once you’ve worked a couple of years and feel more established, it’s much easier to stand your ground and say, «I won’t take your paltry offer!» When you’re fresh out of college, you are so desperate for a job that …
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Job Applicant Withdraws Application After Being Made To Do Free Labor

There are so many things that can be asked of you during the process of applying for a job. I’ve had to take aptitude tests, send writing samples, and, of course, explain my entire life in the hope that I’ll be offered the chance to perform labor. Some job application processes seem excessive; I’ve never …
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Shady IT Department Forces Applicants To Quit Their Current Jobs, Immediately Eliminates The Job They Applied For

Applying for a new job while you’re still employed is a tricky process. It’s difficult to know what order you should do things in, especially when a prospective new job wants you to begin as soon as humanly possible. You can risk putting in your two-week notice before you get an offer letter, but that’s …
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Company Cancels Job Interview Mid-Interview Because of Sudden ‘Hiring Freeze,’ Asks Interviewee to do Free Labor

Anybody who has been on the job hunt knows how much work you have to put into it. You have to tailor your resume to each specific company, write cover letters and personal statements, and do it quickly so you’re one of the first names they see on their big pile of resumes. You do …
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Workers Share How They Deal With Lowballing Job Interviewers

There is no surefire way to get a recruiter to be honest with you about the salary range they’re hiring within. That’s the kind of information they want to keep private, usually for the purpose of lowballing interviewees if they can. Sure, there’s the occasional recruiter who wants to give you a salary at the …
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Foolish Recruiter Offers Candidate $15K Less Than Her Current Position, Freaks Out When She Ghosts Them

It’s important to maintain professional correspondence when speaking with a recruiter. Even if you don’t feel great about the prospective job, you might as well save face over email, even if you’re cursing them out on the other side of the computer. Like all things, this notion of maintaining professionalism has exceptions. If a job …
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Bitter Recruiter Accuses Applicant of Applying for Jobs Solely to Negotiate a Pay-Raise at their Current Job

One of the hardest parts about having a job is figuring out how to get more money. Some jobs make getting a raise a piece of cake, but those positions are few and far between. For the majority of places, you either have to ask nicely for more money, get a whole new job, or …
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Company Pulls Job Offer After Applicant Asks to Negotiate His Salary

One of the most important parts of applying for a job is not asking about money too early. That might sound silly or unfair, but it’s just how things are. Of course, I’m not saying you should never talk about money at any point in the job interviewing process. Once you get a job offer, …
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Workers Discuss The Benefits of Lying on Your Resume

There’s only so much you can do to get a job when your resume is not up to par. You can change the verbiage you use to describe your job-hopping as much as you’d like, but employers are just going to see the same thing: an unreliable person who can’t be trusted to stay at …
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