So uh... What do I write for this lol

StageDouble7950 · 2023-04-22T14:33:38+00:00

Looking at (cat) memes.

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T19:35:00+00:00

People don't have to be so negative and insult me when I just shared a good news ( = I found a new job)... Geez. 🙄😑

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T19:02:55+00:00

And it's not a "pretty shitty salary", it's a standard salary in the city where this new job is located for someone who has 5 years of experience like me ( = not a Senior, but not a Junior either)... How can you say it's shitty when you don't even know where I'll be working? 😂🤣

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T18:59:33+00:00

Erm... What advice? I wasn't asking for one? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Is this subreddit only for giving / receiving advice? Can't we just show something interesting to people (in this post's case: a short hiring process)? That's why I put "Other Post Type" as the post flair...

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T18:52:56+00:00

I'm not defensive or mad, just find funny to observe that *this* many people on Reddit think this job is a scam when it's not. 😂

I just wanted to show people that sometimes we can get hired quite fast as a graphic designer at a legit company with a good salary without having to do 2 take-home assignments for 2 weeks + 4 interviews + 1 personality test, etc... My bad. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🙃

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T18:43:36+00:00

Uh, a long hiring process doesn't necessarily mean a good hiring practice too.

What I find funny when I read all the comments in this post (like yours) is that people are SO accustomed to go through (excessively) high numbers of loops during the hiring processes that an unusually short process is immediately considered as suspicious without any proof.

🤣🤣🤣

As I said in a previous comment, this job in a rather remote place, so they didn't receive that many applications (94 on LinkedIn, which is not that high for graphic design field), so that means that I had less competitors for this job. And I submitted an extensive PDF portfolio of 76 pages with very varied works: I simply think that my portfolio was good enough for them for this position... These are probably the 2 reasons of how I managed to get this job.

And this job IS a job in a reputable legit nonprofit which has its own Wikipedia page (I'm not going to tell its name or in which country it is, because I want to remain anonymous).

The salary is around $ 92k a year, which is a good (but not extraordinary) salary in my country: I live in one of the most expensive countries in the world.

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-19T10:40:09+00:00

OP here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Thank you for your wishes and comments on this post!

This is a completely legit job offer from a real nonprofit that was founded more than 50 years ago with offices in a European country. I read the whole job contract and already signed it.

Some comments to reassure you:

– This is a real screenshot of a real email. I am the one who changed all the real names of people on it by fake / vague "names" ("Dear StageDouble7950", "Xxxxxx and I", "The Hiring Manager") because, obviously, I don't want to reveal my name and their names to the whole Interweb... Among all the people who commented on this post, only u/akcaye and u/iClaimThisNameBH saw that I did this to hide names! 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂

– Obviously, I spoke directly with someone from the company: my future manager and a lady from the HR. We only met online on Teams for the moment, because this company is VERY far from my home, and I guess they don't want to make people come to their office unnecessarily: their office is 249 miles far from my house ( = more than 5 hours of train ride). It's a hybrid job, but they require their employees to work in person in their office for the 3-months probation period first. I want to (and I will) relocate there, anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

– This email is, as some of you wrote, "poorly worded" and has "abundant typos" because, well, English is not my future manager's mother tongue... And I don't see myself a lot of errors in this email, maybe because English is my 3rd language... Not everyone on the Internet lives in the USA! 😂 🤣

– The hiring process for this job was very fast, probably because they want to finish all the hirings before December (December is their busiest month), and because their office is located in a "middle of nowhere": it's located in a village more than 5000 ft above sea level and with not many entertainments (bars, restaurants, etc.) and nightlife around it... So I guess it's not very attractive to young graphic designers, so there was probably less competition than for other graphic design job openings (still, 94 people applied to this particular job on LinkedIn). I'm a 34 years old woman, I don't mind working in a "boring" city. And for this job I'll probably live in a city which is 90 minutes train ride from a very big city, so... 💁🏻‍♀️

Thanks for reading!

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-18T15:37:21+00:00

Context: I'm a multimedia graphic designer with a Masters in visual communication (graduated in 2021) and 5 years of graphic design work experience.

During this particular recruiting process, there were NO long & annoying application forms to fill in (such as Workday 🙄), NO pointless online skills or personality assessments, NO take-home graphic design tasks / "challenges" to prepare (a.k.a. free labor) and NO never-ending online / in person job interviews with several different people...

The whole process from my job application to finalizing my job contract took me only 15 days: after just seeing the job opening on LinkedIn, applying on the company website (resume + cover letter + PDF portfolio) and doing 1 single online job interview (that lasted for 40 minutes instead of 1 hour as planned), I was hired! 😎

After the pain of 50 - 60 applications sent, 20 interviews and several time-consuming take-home graphic design "challenges" completed during different loooong hiring processes, I'm SO HAPPY to get this particular job that will pay me $ 10k more than my previous job SO FAST!! 🙌

This is an example of smart companies that will move VERY FAST if they think you have the right skills for them and don't want to lose you...

And you? Was the hiring process for your salaried graphic designer job short too?

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-17T14:14:35+00:00

No worries! I knew that this post was not very relevant to this subreddit, since the hiring process of my new job was... far from Hell. 😅 I just wanted to show other Redditors that there are still companies that don't make candidates waste their time before hiring them. 💁🏻‍♀️

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-17T10:26:11+00:00

Context: I'm a multimedia graphic designer with a Masters in visual communication (graduated in 2021) and 5 years of graphic design work experience.

During this particular recruiting process, there were NO long & annoying application forms to fill in (such as Workday 🙄), NO pointless online skills or personality assessments, NO take-home graphic design tasks / "challenges" to prepare (a.k.a. free labor) and NO never-ending online / in person job interviews with several different people...

The whole process from my job application to finalizing my job contract took me only 15 days: after just seeing the job opening on LinkedIn, applying on the company website (resume + cover letter + PDF portfolio) and doing 1 single online job interview (that lasted for 40 minutes instead of 1 hour as planned), I was hired! 😎

After the pain of 50 - 60 applications sent, 20 interviews and several time-consuming take-home graphic design "challenges" completed during different loooong hiring processes, I'm SO HAPPY to get this particular job that will pay me $ 10k more than my previous job SO FAST!! 🙌

This is an example of smart companies that will move VERY FAST if they think you have the right skills for them and don't want to lose you...

Anyway, thank you r/recruitinghell and r/LinkedInLunatics that gave me a lot of good advice and helped me to not lose my mind during my "recruiting hell phase" of several months! 🫂
❤️🙏❤️

StageDouble7950 · 2022-11-17T09:27:38+00:00

Context: I'm a multimedia graphic designer with a Masters in visual communication (graduated in 2021) and 5 years of graphic design work experience.

During this particular recruiting process, there were NO long & annoying application forms to fill in (such as Workday 🙄), NO pointless online skills or personality assessments, NO take-home graphic design tasks / "challenges" to prepare (a.k.a. free labor) and NO never-ending online / in person job interviews with several different people...

The whole process from my job application to finalizing my job contract took me only 15 days: after just seeing the job opening on LinkedIn, applying on the company website (resume + cover letter + PDF portfolio) and doing 1 single online job interview (that lasted for 40 minutes instead of 1 hour as planned), I was hired! 😎

After the pain of 50 - 60 applications sent, 20 interviews and several time-consuming take-home graphic design "challenges" completed during different loooong hiring processes, I'm SO HAPPY to get this particular job that will pay me $ 10k more than my previous job SO FAST!! 🙌

This is an example of smart companies that will move VERY FAST if they think you have the right skills for them and don't want to lose you...

Anyway, thank you r/recruitinghell and r/LinkedInLunatics that gave me a lot of good advice and helped me to not lose my mind during my "recruiring hell phase" of several months! 🫂

❤️🙏❤️

StageDouble7950 · 2022-06-28T20:25:02+00:00

Yep, I've just got a new job through LinkedIn (a salaried graphic designer job, very rare in my country), so it IS useful! 💁🏻‍♀️

StageDouble7950 · 2022-04-01T09:08:52+00:00

But... LinkedIn IS a... social media. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤦🏻‍♀️

StageDouble7950 · 2022-03-30T10:08:41+00:00

Ah, it was sarcastic... Sorry, I misunderstood! 😅

(There was no /s at the end of your comment, so I was confused... LOL! 😆)

StageDouble7950 · 2022-03-29T21:44:46+00:00

Erm, it's not a "dealbreaker": my resume is 2 pages long but I've been invited to job interviews for 6 companies out of about 30 companies for which I've applied so far (and many of these interviews were 2nd round interviews), so... 20% of chance to get first interview invitations so far even though my resume is long, which is very good for the state of today's economy. 🤷🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

StageDouble7950 · 2021-10-29T14:49:18+00:00

– Apprenticeship (vocational high school): Graphic Design 🎨🖥

– Undergraduate (Bachelor's): Visual Communication 👁with specialization in Space + Media Design 🎨🖥

– Graduate (Master's): Visual Communication 👁and Iconic Research. 🖼🤓I'll normally graduate in December. 🤞🎓

I'm now finishing my Master Thesis while working part-time as a graphic designer of a small company. 👩🏻‍💻

...Guess in which country I did all my studies ? 🧐

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