Recruiter Revokes Applicants Job Offer After He Asks About Benefits

Negotiating a salary can be scary at first. When you’ve never done it before, it can feel like you’re overstepping a boundary of professionalism before you’ve even begun your new job. «Hello, person I don’t know very well. Can I please have $10,000 more dollars than you want to give me?»  In most positions, negotiation …
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Insensitive Recruiter Suspects Applicant is Involved in Idaho Murders Because of his Alma Mater

It’s got to be rough going to a school associated with a national tragedy. Alumni of schools like Virginia Tech University and Columbine High School have dealt with a barrage of insensitive comments about their schools for years. Jokes about horrible deeds like murder can be cruel at best and triggering at worst. A tragedy …
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Company Drags Mid-Level Applicant Through Grueling Seven-Part Interview Process

Very few jobs require an interview process that goes on for months on end. Take the President of the United States, for example. In this scenario, the American people are the recruiters, and the Presidential candidates are the applicants. It can take years for somebody to get that job, which involves months of grueling debates, …
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Weird Recruiter Requests Tour of Interviewee’s Room During Virtual Meeting

Imagine if, in the middle of a job interview, your potential future employer demanded that you open up your bag and reveal its contents? That would feel like a bizarre invasion of privacy, wouldn’t it? Well that’s basically what a recruiter did to redditor u/nuestl during a virtual job interview—the recruiter asked OP to give …
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Oblivious Recruiter Lies To Applicant That She Got The Job

There’s nothing worse than being in that wishy-washy phase of the job interviewing process. You know what I’m talking about: you’re a few interviews in and everything seems to be going as planned. The recruiter likes you, the boss likes you: the only thing you haven’t gotten yet is an offer letter. While this might …
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