r/askrecruiters

Hi, like the title,

Do you always like "always" mention a candidate's expected salary to your hiring manager although it's way out of the range?

Very curious because my expected salary was said to be 20% higher but they still interviewed me and said are going to make an offer next week. Is there a chance that the recruiter forgot to mention it so they still interviewed?

I got an offer. Accepted it. Started the background check with Hireright. There was a minor discrepancy with my title but the hiring company accepted my explanation.

The background check was completed. I received an email from the hiring company and Hireright saying congratulations your background check is complete and passed.

7 days later, I get an email saying there is a discrepancy with my education and my degree isn’t verified. I submitted all my transcripts to Hireright and my hiring company. I think what is happening is my university came back after my background check was complete. My degree is legitimate, i believe it’s the major that is in question. I might have entered the wrong field of study details into HireRight but it’s the same degree. I’m guessing I made an error when entering the major details. I probably should have said “general” as the major instead of “communication management”

What is causing my anxiety to spike right now is that I’ve resigned and started relocating to another state where I will be based. I started this process because my hiring company confirmed my background check was completed and passed.

I emailed an explanation to my hiring company and I’m waiting for a response.

Do you think this will be an issue? I’m in a very bad situation if the offer gets taken back.

What if my resume doesn’t 100% match with what’s on my employment history? I applied beforehand with information that I knew and couldn’t change my resume after I got my employment form back. A lot of the jobs I thought I resigned from still say active and some jobs I put on my resume are not on the report (vice versa)

I am interviewing with a startup with about 200 people max.

I passed the recruiter

I passed the hiring manager

I passed the technical

I passed the cultural

Today they asked me for 3 references and that a person from the team will schedule those once I provide them my references. I have great references (My current manager, a VP from my last role, and a peer from my current role)

I am so nervous and feel like I shouldn't celebrate yet :/

May get taken down but I have to know….

I know a lot of people here hate recruiters because they ghost them or feel like they don’t give them enough attention but I have to say, I hate BEING one more than you can ever hate me. 😂

The reality is recruiting is probably the most thankless job in HR. I started in L&D and through some twists of fate I ended up in a merged professional development and recruiting specialist role. Thankfully I have now gotten a new position doing what I’m really passionate about in the employee development side of things. But because I hate recruiting, I want to give you all my 10 truths of recruiting as a farewell to this miserable side of HR, some you may enjoy for a laugh but I can assure you they are all from true events!

1. Your resume is a really important piece of paper that I very thoughtfully skimmed for 20 seconds. I appreciate the effort but I have to review a lot of these things and I’ve usually got it down pretty solid how to see what I need to see. Mostly I’m looking for what you did at your last job, I really don’t care that you were varsity cheer captain your senior year or that you played Trombone in the marching band.
2. I am the gatekeeper, be nice to me. Calling and yelling at me not only gets you not interviewed for that job, I’ll make sure you don’t get interviewed for any job at this company! And if you’re going to call and DEMAND an interview, make sure you actually submitted your application first!
3. Young people are the future of the workforce, but I’m not hiring your mom so don’t have her call me to ask about a job for you. I really don’t care that you’ve got lacrosse practice until 6. And if you are a mom who calls me, don’t argue with me when I say to have your kid call. Also, don’t tell me your kids name because I will remember you, Karen.
4. Know what job you’re actually coming in for. It’s one thing to be under prepared, but don’t be dumb enough to tell me while I’m interviewing you that you don’t remember what job you applied for. Check your email or politely send me an email and ask me to send you the JD for you to review before the interview!
5. Be on time….do I need to say more?
6. Spellcheck and proofreading is your friend! Your resume says you did shit work….was that the quality of it or how you felt? Oh, you meant shift work….with an F….the grade you got in English class I’m assuming.
7. When I ask why you left your previous employer “I couldn’t stand that motherfu*ker I worked for” is not the right answer. Everyone hates their boss, it’s as classic as a model T. Act like you’ve got some sense and lie to me as I expect you to do. I just want to know that you can pretend to be professional when you have to.
8. Dress like someone who actually wants a job not someone going to a pajama party!
9. I know everyone wants to stretch themselves but if a job says it needs 10 years experience and an MBA and all you’ve got is 10 months and a high school diploma, maybe don’t apply? Aim for something you can hit please!
10. You have a better shot of keeping the job offer if you take the drug test and fail it than you do if you’re stupid enough to get caught trying to cheat it!

Hello everyone I recently applied for the SDR role at snowflake through careers page on September 16th

Later that day I realised that it won't get noticed by recruiters if I just apply by careers page so I reached out to managers on LinkedIn and sent cold emails to managers.

So this week on Monday the hiring manager responded by cold email and he looped the recruiter to screen me for further consideration.

Then recruiter scheduled a screening call at 12:30 friday which is yesterday. In the call recruiter asked me about my background experience location current compensation and notice period etc as usual and it was just a 5 minutes call and he said that he is good to go and he will forward the profile to hiring manager and after his approval I will get back to you on Monday he said and also mentioned that there will be 4 more more rounds after this one with hiring manager, next with sales head next is presentation round and last is with the director he said and he will get back to me on Monday call ended.

So I thought I will wait till Monday for the next update

But as soon as I woke up today morning on Saturday 9:30 am I received a rejection email from snowflake which was sent by ashbyhq recruitment system of snowflake.

My concern is that am I totally rejected? Is this rejection email that I received was it triggered by the application that I sent through the website in September (those automated rejection emails)

or is it the actual rejection email that they sent after my screening call with the recruiter??

Please help me understand this people I had a lot of hopes on this one after getting rejected from Salesforce interview in the last round 🥺, I am extremely anxious after seeing this email. I was preparing for the next round actually 😭

Did they immediately decided not to go ahead with my profile after screening call?? Idk people who have any idea help me understand what happened 😞🥺

I’m trying to understand what is considered normal for employee rescreening. Is it usually done once a year, only for certain positions, or when someone gets promoted or changes roles?

I can see why regular checks may be useful, but doing them too often could create extra work and privacy concerns. How do companies decide what is relevant to the employee’s role while also staying compliant?

Would be helpful to hear how HR or compliance teams handle ongoing screening and what approach works best.

I feel like I just had a good interview, but it ended before the full allotted time, and the doubts are creeping in.

I'm imagining the people I interviewed with laughing behind my back despite the nice things they said.

Do you do that? Do you hide your true opinion of a candidate you found to be ridiculous?

Do any medium/big tech recruiters look at individual courses in transcript instead of just the GPA?

School feels a bit pointless in my final year after 16 months internship, so my final year marks probably won't be great even though my overall GPA will still be very good.

Hoping they won't notice the dropoff in last year.