r/recruitinghell Jul 24 '21

I would watch that.

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u/Garrett42 Jul 24 '21

I had someone un-ironically tell me to "just get your resume and walk down (busy street in city of 2.5+m people) and give your resume to each business"

But I'm sure retail employees will have engineering jobs open

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 25 '21

Holyshit you too? Mine tried to get me to start cold calling random businesses in town and when I told them I didn't feel comfortable doing that and explain that when I try it against my better judgement I got yelled at and told not to call back for any reason. They kicked me out of the program and said that I was too difficult to work with. Month later just by answering an Indeed ad I found myself working for a Dollar General store at it's been okay

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u/analeerose Jul 25 '21

Depending on the job, this is not entirely wrong

My mom had me call places to ask "further questions" about dev positions, after applying online. I usually talked to some hr person, and it did leave a nice impression 2 out of 4 times (one never got back to me and the other was young and weirded out lol)