Screening calls do happen. Shortlisting for interview or interview itself is a diff ball game

I got referred to Accenture a few times never got a call🥲. Maybe cause im a fresher

Referrals did help me really well recently got almost 8/10 calls because of referrals, but ofc need to message multiple people. Daily !!!

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Product Manager

Ive heard referrals dont work as effectively as they used to. Is that true?

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How effective are your referrals?

How effective are your referrals?- Grapevine

I arranged employee referrals from Microsoft , Visa , Arcesium , Walmart but no response came not even rejection its almost 1 month.
Is there any other trend prevailing in market?
Or more precisely Am I approaching in the wrong way?

It seems employee referrals are not working these days

It’s pretty well known that Microsoft referrals are useless

Software Engineer

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I’m dumbfounded when the best piece of advice I hear is that its a numbers game and probability is supreme.
There’s got to be a strategy that one applies to shortlist from the ocean of offers out there.

- applying in the same domain as your current company?
- platform or regions where recruiters are more active?
- directly talking to freelance HMs and doing a deal?

If no hack, just share what worked for you? And how are you optimising the job searching?

Give me your best strategies for job hunting?

1. Accept that it's a numbers game. Especially in this market  
 2. Embrace that there may be a super stupid person on the other side . E.G - My CV was rejected at a big Web3  startup, but I persisted : went through a reference spoke to HR and showed her how the CV is a 90%+ Match. She ended up fixing an interview. What if I didn't have a referral? Jata na 
 3. There is only one hack - get that CV in front of the hiring managers face : through referrals, through problem solution one pagers that I've DM'd directly to founders or hiring managers, consistently applying to the widest net, getting friendly and maintaining good relations with head hunters: I've helped so many head hunters with their other mandates unrelated to me, just for the sake of it. No expectations.  
  
 DESPITE throwing such a wide net, it still is roughly taking me 9-10 months for my next gig. Sure I'm looking at leadership mandates and woh roles by default halway mein nahi khatam hote.  
  
 But play the numbers smartly is the only way. Send a 100 tries out (but customized and personalized not spam) and tab hi kaam karega.

Brand Marketing Manager

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I mean its so hard to get a referral or is it just me? Basically,

1. Everyone on linkden is basically an influencer, though with a legit experience and ofcourse technical skills, its more like everyone is just there to flaunt and I practically see no one actually being helped or helping.

2. Only on a personal level, I guess having met them, do people take you seriously, that still is a low probability.

So my question is, if you were an average Joe in this job market, how would you approach people to have them actually land an interview let alone be selected?

Where do you guys get referrals from?

Here in the grapevine app itself i got several referrals. All the interviews I am attending now are firm referrals. Whether I clear the interview or not is second. But I could see many folks coming up to help by giving referrals. If we get selected its win-win situation we get the job and they get money too.

Software Developer

I'm saying this because Microsoft has posted more than 240 software engineering jobs in India in just the last month, bringing the total to 547 software engineering jobs in India alone. However, despite this large number of job postings, I haven't seen a single new employee announcement on LinkedIn for any of these positions.

Does nobody want to join Microsoft, or what?

Is Microsoft posting fake jobs in India

So.. Around 2 years back I got my first payout of 50k as a referral bonus for a friend I referred to my company. 

Around same time.. My team had a few positions.. So i put it on linkedin and got a decent response.. Got another referral.. 

Next year.. I decided to scale it.. I started putting multiple posts on linkedin for positions across my company and started streaming the responses on google sheet. Having a big linkedin network of 20k helped. 

This year I scaled it to 4L a year... But then it all stopped after one fine day there was a HR circular to not undertake commercial level sourcing of profiles on linkedin.. And only refer ppl I know. 

It's a different matter that I could manage to source almost 20-40x more relevant profiles as compared to my HRs even with their third party agencies. More than half of my team members are my referrals :). 


While scaling this hustle.. This is what I learnt. 

1) You will get lots of spam.. I feel sry for some candidates .. But sometime even civil grads will apply for semiconductor jobs. 

2) Better to invite applications using a google form with proper filters.. Only serious ppl will apply. 

3) Do not refer everyone.. Reduce your effort and only refer candidates who have a chance. 

4) Engage with candidates, followup after interviews. 

5) Do not trust your employer will automatically honor referral payouts if you don't track.. I literally lost more than 2L coz of inefficient referral tracking system. 

6) Control your greed.. Even if you scale up.. Limit yourself to a decent no.. Say 2L a year.. Referral policy is for company's benifit.. They will shut you down one way or another if they find you are gaining. 

7) Handling it at scale is a lot of work.

What Using/misusing employee referral policy has taught me.

Never heard using referal as a side hustle. Great job

Data engineer

What could be the possible reasons for my resume NOT getting selected by FAANG?
Few points to know:
• My profile is Data Science related
• My resume is only 1.25 pages
• I have total 6 years of experience and all is in
Data Science
• I'm applying to jobs as per my experience level only
• I have industry-relevant skillset and projects

Resume is NOT getting shortlisted by
FAANG

Senior Data Scientist

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How the Referal works...actually speaking...isn't there be fair opportunity instead of referrals....because it feels like big favour is being taken and also favouritism etc comes to play.... and how it works in big four or big 50 firms..?? 

Is that managers time to time inform its team about referral drives ??

How referral works? Is it a good culture?

Account Executive

I saw many posts of linkedin claiming none of their referrals got an interview call. Is referring someone really have some advantages over directly applying? Is it company dependent? Can you share how many of your referrals actually got calls.

#engineering #software #swe #jobs #referrals

How many of your referrals got interview calls.

Hi all,

I have recently joined a new company and a lot of people (mostly people I don't know) are reaching out for referrals. I know the time is tough.
How do you all decide whom to refer? Friends and people you know are definitely there. You can't be referring everyone as it decreases your credibility if they are not suitable for the role or don't get hired.
Also, how do you say no to such requests?

Thank you!

Referrals - How to decide?

Looking for a job in Bangalore for SDE roles in backend or full stack, join immediately, thanks in advance

Anyone hiring???

I have seen many people using this community lately for referrals in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, etc but I think it's not very rational of people to think that they will get a Referral out of this community or app because it's almost like a stranger recommending another stranger for a job profile and it of course also comes with a sense of responsibility that the one joining doesn't do any mischief so why will someone actually do Referral?

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