A lot of the roles posted are mostly focused on signalling growth. Plus a lot of companies never really learned how to hire, they just followed what ever comes out of silicon valley without thinking about it.
To be honest, I think ghost offers should be criminalized; they are just playing with people’s lives.
I got laid off and realized how broken tech hiring is
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest, I think ghost offers should be criminalized; they are just playing with people’s lives.
Seems like fraud. If the intention is to mislead as to corporate health for some monetary reason how is it not wire fraud?
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#24The "tech jobs" you are looking for are actually potemkin ghost jobs that are never going to be filled and are only there to give no signal to market traders and analysts whether if the company is hiring or not.
I think it s a crime, playing with people lives
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziedhosni/
Seems like, if anyone hires you, you are guaranteed to leave before two years so maybe it's easier to save the trouble.
Are you looking for someone that would stay for 20 years?
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#27If you are just spamming ATSs instead of using your network or reaching out to targeted companies, it’s always been a shit show
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#28I found applying to job postings was effectively a waste of time. The number of replies I received from a person was What was effective was advertising my availability on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Dice, and waiting for recruiters to contact me. In other words in the current environment passive options were far more effective than active searches - the process is definitely upside down. The only alternative approach was k…
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#29EEO rules require that available positions be posted to the public, but in many cases there is no intention to interview outside candidates for these positions. For example let’s say a large company wants to convert a contractor into an employee. That position still has to be posted to the public, but it’s only one of many examples. In my case I am a government contractor so candidates will not even be considered unl…
There is also no rule in general that a company can’t make a contractor a permanent employee.
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#30What are you looking for? Maybe I can help. We have a lot of open positions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziedhosni/
Your last five years just have job titles and nothing about what you did and you have a lot of short job stints.
Every job application for a “generic” skillset literally gets 100s of applicants within the first few hours. What is your “unfair advantage”?