Engineering video
1:00 · 17 December 2022
The speaker explains: developers can take control during the interview process by refusing to blindly send their CV and instead asking recruiters for details about the position first, ensuring mutual commitment.
Hear it at 0:16 →The speaker explains: to avoid wasting time waiting on vague recruiter follow-up promises, developers should ask for exact dates to manage their time while handling multiple selection processes.
Hear it at 0:34 →If you're a developer interviewing right now, here is how to always get your own way. Look, recruiters who'll ask you all kind of stupid questions. From like awkward stuff about your past to specific details about the latest JavaScript framework. And then they will promise you the milk and the honey, you send them your CV and then they ghost you. It happens all the time. So, how can you get back control? Simple, only commit to people that commit to you.
So, the next time one of those recruiters ask you for your CV, tell them, hey, I would love to share it with you. But before we do that, could you just tell me more about the position? Just to make sure it's actually a fit. Now, you are the one asking questions, you are the one in power. But uh don't stop here, let's suppose at the end of the call, they tell you something like uh, cool, I'll get back to you within the next week.
So, what? You're supposed to hang in there until they look at other candidates, wasting your time, instead of using that time to better things like improving your technical skills? No, don't settle for that. Just confront them a bit, ask them, hey, when exactly next week you think you can come back to me? Just to manage my time. As you can imagine, I'm in the middle of other selection processes as of now.
