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Can I use ey laptop to attend interview ?
Hello Guys,
I joined Cognizant recently, the project interview calls which I am getting is not from my base location.
I have the location constraint, should I wait for the right opportunity or raise this concern to ADP team so they can look in to it?
As per ADP policy, one should not have any constraints and take the project as FCFS basis.
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Highly recommend networking. Try to get referrals, connect with people on LinkedIn at companies you are interested in, reach out to people in similar roles, ask if they have insight into the hiring team. Directly reach out to recruiters and hiring managers. It’s a grind, and might require you to step out of your comfort zone, but is much more effective than just cold applying, IMO. Every interview and job I’ve gotten has come from a referral, or directly reaching out to recruiters/hiring managers at the company.
I'm on the opposite end. We have had many go through the phone interview and then no show for the in office interview. They have even contacted me after the interview, thanking me for the phone interview and letting me know they will be at the in office interview and still no show. There seems to be a lot of people looking for jobs, many have been laid off and yet they still no show.
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You miss a LOT by not going on site for the interviews. The vibe is always very palpable -- good and bad -- at the companies' sites. I learned this the hard way, when I was interviewing for an HRD job with a company that was planning to fire the incumbent, and so insisted on meeting me over lunch or similar. When I got there on my first day, my heart absolutely sank. It was dark, quiet, and depressing. There was literally mouse poop on some desks in the open space (hardly anyone had an office; they were all in a giant room of desks), when it rained water came down from the ceiling so hard that people had to put umbrellas up, or move to protect their laptops. Turnover was rampant. I was supposed to be the top/only HR person for all HR functions, but spent 90% of my time recruiting to fill the jobs that people quit. Had I interviewed there, that vibe would have had me bowing out in a heartbeat.