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eddieangel wrote:
Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite
I don't think this part is odd at all. I would personally wait until after the interview.
eddieangel wrote:
and ask them what areas they might want to cover?
I don't think you should do this. It may be ok as long as you state clearly this part:
eddieangel wrote:
the job description lists no technical skills,
If it were me I would just wait till after the interview. I wouldn't ask them about the interview.
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Great, thank you. I have done the legwork around Glassdoor and CareerCup to see the kind of questions most people have experienced at my level. The whole process will be cathartic, though possibly painful. Cheers, --EA
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I agree with loctice. If you want to find out what kinds of questions they might ask, then do some internet research on the company. Connect with the interviewer *after* the interview, possibly only after a hiring decision is made. I *would* send a quick thank you message via LinkedIn after the interview.
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I have a phone interview on Monday, and I have found my interviewer on LinkedIn. Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite and ask them what areas they might want to cover? Oddly enough, the job description lists no technical skills, though my reading indicates heavy data structure and algorithms. Tell me what you guys think. Cheers, --EA
I agree with Loctrice and Ahmed, that you should wait until after the interview, and, to take their comments one step further: depending on how the interview goes, I'd make a decision only then to invite the interviewer to LinkedIn. Now, it would be interesting to know if the interviewer has seen your LinkedIn account name in your resume ... if it's in there; and accessed it. My personal choice would be, in the absence of known specific technical skills required for the job, to, at the first appropriate opportunity, bring that up with the interviewer in a style you can call an "open-ended question," like: "It's very interesting to me that the job description does not list what specific technical skills are needed, and I am very curious to know more about exactly what the job entails." good luck, Bill
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I have a phone interview on Monday, and I have found my interviewer on LinkedIn. Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite and ask them what areas they might want to cover? Oddly enough, the job description lists no technical skills, though my reading indicates heavy data structure and algorithms. Tell me what you guys think. Cheers, --EA
I've had that happen to me as an interviewer and I didn't appreciate it. Another odd one is rejected interviewees that make connection invites.
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I've had that happen to me as an interviewer and I didn't appreciate it. Another odd one is rejected interviewees that make connection invites.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
Thank you for that side of things. I tend to keep my LinkedIn limited to people I actually know at a level that I would recognize them, for the most part. Other people don't necessarily do the same. I thought it was a nice method to be able to reach out and say thank you for the interview.
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I have a phone interview on Monday, and I have found my interviewer on LinkedIn. Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite and ask them what areas they might want to cover? Oddly enough, the job description lists no technical skills, though my reading indicates heavy data structure and algorithms. Tell me what you guys think. Cheers, --EA
Wait until after the interview... as it is, it sort of looks weird that you add an interviewer to your network that you don't really know. Might make them uncomfortable since they're deciding the outcome of your interview.
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I've had that happen to me as an interviewer and I didn't appreciate it. Another odd one is rejected interviewees that make connection invites.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
This happened to me. The guy invited me after the interview but before we told him that we were not interested in him. I didn't accept it because that would have been awkward.
Steve Maier
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Thank you for that side of things. I tend to keep my LinkedIn limited to people I actually know at a level that I would recognize them, for the most part. Other people don't necessarily do the same. I thought it was a nice method to be able to reach out and say thank you for the interview.
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Good input, thank you.
As ahmed just said, say thanks after the interview. see this; http://ezinearticles.com/?Dont-Forget-to-Do-This-After-the-Interview---It-Could-Cost-You-the-Job!&id=2099087[^]
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This happened to me. The guy invited me after the interview but before we told him that we were not interested in him. I didn't accept it because that would have been awkward.
Steve Maier
That's happened a few times and one person has repeated the attempt several times after I didn't accept. I guess he really wants a lot of "links".
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eddieangel wrote:
Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite
I don't think this part is odd at all. I would personally wait until after the interview.
eddieangel wrote:
and ask them what areas they might want to cover?
I don't think you should do this. It may be ok as long as you state clearly this part:
eddieangel wrote:
the job description lists no technical skills,
If it were me I would just wait till after the interview. I wouldn't ask them about the interview.
If it moves, compile it
Good advice. :thumbsup: /ravi
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I have a phone interview on Monday, and I have found my interviewer on LinkedIn. Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite and ask them what areas they might want to cover? Oddly enough, the job description lists no technical skills, though my reading indicates heavy data structure and algorithms. Tell me what you guys think. Cheers, --EA
I would just go over the job description. Then I'd analyze to pretty much structure what basis I would need to cover on my own personal experience. Another idea, is you could contact them and let that you are unable to find that information and maybe they could direct you to it. All in all, I wouldn't contact them and ask that question directly. But hey the rules have change with technology...good luck ;-)
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I have a phone interview on Monday, and I have found my interviewer on LinkedIn. Is it super weird and inappropriate to send them a connect invite and ask them what areas they might want to cover? Oddly enough, the job description lists no technical skills, though my reading indicates heavy data structure and algorithms. Tell me what you guys think. Cheers, --EA
You shluld have asked the person who arranged the interview. It is very wierd to link to someone you may only ever meet once at interview: really creepy, actually: I'd probably cancel the interview!
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You shluld have asked the person who arranged the interview. It is very wierd to link to someone you may only ever meet once at interview: really creepy, actually: I'd probably cancel the interview!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Interesting. I get link requests constantly from people I have never met or heard of. I don't accept them, but I also don't go to the police for a restraining order. The internet is fair game, so if you put yourself out there on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc... you are going to get a few questions. I am definitely not going to contact the person, but I was curious what the general internet consensus was. This is the first time, I think, that I have known the name of the person I am interviewing with prior to the interview. Cheers, --EA
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Interesting. I get link requests constantly from people I have never met or heard of. I don't accept them, but I also don't go to the police for a restraining order. The internet is fair game, so if you put yourself out there on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc... you are going to get a few questions. I am definitely not going to contact the person, but I was curious what the general internet consensus was. This is the first time, I think, that I have known the name of the person I am interviewing with prior to the interview. Cheers, --EA
I would wait until after the interview - it's a nice follow up. Who knows, maybe you won't want to connect with them after you talk. Distant stalking is considered research when interviewing.:cool:
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I would wait until after the interview - it's a nice follow up. Who knows, maybe you won't want to connect with them after you talk. Distant stalking is considered research when interviewing.:cool:
Hi Meagon, I was able to change my vote, by going back to the top-level of the Lounge, locating the original thread, and finding your message. So, now you do have +5 vote, and what I wrote below is irrelevant. But, I'm still puzzled why, clicking in to the thread from the link to my own original post, I couldn't see Ahmed's and Loctrice's comments, or change my original vote on your comments. That's something I am going to research the "why" of, and perhaps ask about on "Suggs and Bugs." best, Bill My apologies, Meagon, I just accidentally voted you a #2, when I meant to vote you a #5. I was looking for the posts by Ahmed and Loctrice, to make sure I upvoted them, and, in a not yet caffeinated enough state (here at GMT + 7), my muddled brain thought the 2 stood for a second page of comments: whoops. And, it seems there's no way, now, to reverse that vote :( I will do some research on CP, since I bet many other people have raised questions about how to undo, or revise, a vote on the "Site Buggs and Suggs" Forum. sorry, Bill
"Takuan Sōhō died in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in December of 1645. At the moment before his death, Takuan painted the Chinese character 'meng' ("dream"), laid down his brush and died."
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Hi Meagon, I was able to change my vote, by going back to the top-level of the Lounge, locating the original thread, and finding your message. So, now you do have +5 vote, and what I wrote below is irrelevant. But, I'm still puzzled why, clicking in to the thread from the link to my own original post, I couldn't see Ahmed's and Loctrice's comments, or change my original vote on your comments. That's something I am going to research the "why" of, and perhaps ask about on "Suggs and Bugs." best, Bill My apologies, Meagon, I just accidentally voted you a #2, when I meant to vote you a #5. I was looking for the posts by Ahmed and Loctrice, to make sure I upvoted them, and, in a not yet caffeinated enough state (here at GMT + 7), my muddled brain thought the 2 stood for a second page of comments: whoops. And, it seems there's no way, now, to reverse that vote :( I will do some research on CP, since I bet many other people have raised questions about how to undo, or revise, a vote on the "Site Buggs and Suggs" Forum. sorry, Bill
"Takuan Sōhō died in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in December of 1645. At the moment before his death, Takuan painted the Chinese character 'meng' ("dream"), laid down his brush and died."
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