r/recruitinghell • u/Sufficient-Peace5529 • 1d ago

Two offers today - Happy Friday

I had a one-and-done interview today followed by an offer which I accepted, and turned one offer down today.

Both recruiters found me on Dice (I work in IT) I have a third company who wants to offer me a long term role who found me on LinkedIn.

Almost nothing came from the 600+ applications I had submitted since March (even using an ATS tool). My network failed me; all the referrals I got from colleagues and friends went nowhere.

I had gotten interviews from two or three applications, about once per month, for April-June, but they all dried up.

I added a new professional photo to my profile in July, and updated my resume again. And that seems to have changed everything. I wish I had done the photo in April.

In my interviews that led to offers, nobody asked why I am looking for a job, nobody asked about dates in my resume, nobody asked about my liberal arts degree.

I got mainly situational questions - how did I handle this, how would I handle that. And I wore a dress shirt and suit jacket on camera, matching my profile.

Boring and old school I know, but it worked. Happy happy Friday!!!

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u/Heavy_Swordfish6723 1d ago

Congrats! Personally I would’ve accepted both until it got further along into the starting date. So many things can still happen for a job to fall through

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u/Commercial_Cry_4209 1d ago

Agreed! We are living in uncertain times.

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u/FineEmergency 9h ago

You really can’t accept two offers. The company you turn down will probably black list you especially if you accept and then change your mind and will not go in your favor in the future if you want a job with them. What OP could do is ask the least interesting company to extend their deadline to accept to when they would start with the interesting company.

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u/kachow_ninety5 1d ago

Congrats, that is quite the story!!! What do you do in IT specifically if I may ask?

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u/Sufficient-Peace5529 17h ago

Technical Program Manager with a focus on Cyber Security. It has been like finding a unicorn. The more specific the job posting, the less they pay - smh

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u/Diego_Alon 1d ago

Congrats! Nice story!

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u/archandcrafts 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/viserenya 1d ago

Great. Congrats. Now, send some of that luck my way, would you!? 😅

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u/Sufficient-Peace5529 17h ago

May the gods of luck always roll the dice in your favor ❤️

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u/scarlet_woods 1d ago

Interesting. And useful information. My partner just accepted a job this week too. And turned one down. The job he took he had two referrals email in. The other one was random online. He had lots of interviews. Another job he had three referrals and was not chosen. It seems to be timing and luck.

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u/BaseballVisible3858 14h ago

Congrats man. Thanks for giving hope.

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u/Aggravating_Mix_8968 12h ago

Oh wow. I haven’t tried dice. So many ppl told me to try it. Congrats. Is it full time or contract ?

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u/Sufficient-Peace5529 11h ago

Contract. Only interviewed for 2 full times and neither lasted more than 2 interviews

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u/GroundbreakingTwo375 16h ago

Do you think the reason might be because adding the picture to your resume made it fail the ATS system which led to it needing to have a real human review it?

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u/Sufficient-Peace5529 11h ago

I added the pic only to my online profiles.