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Wanted to highlight Prudential Financial’s hiring practices. They rescinded my offer once I attempted to negotiate the salary. The official reason given was that I didn’t “sound excited enough”.
They then admittedly gave the offer to someone who was less qualified. There were other red flags throughout the job offer process that the HR team should overall be ashamed of.
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A lot of companies hire people in their Support Team who have relevant skills without necessarily having a technical background. For example, I had one friend who managed a coffee shop and was hired to manage a support team. Or, another who was hired because he spoke fluent German.
Once you are in a tech company you have a chance to learn new skills and move into new roles. Both of the people I mentioned spent about 3 years in Support, one now works in Customer Success and the other in QA.
Cool, I have a lot of support role experience so I can play on those strengths. Thank you!
If you are already employed, I recommend finding an internal tech-facing or tech-heavy role. You have business acumen that external candidates don’t have and existing internal credibility to allow the hiring manager to give you a chance despite no relevant degree/experience. Get that job, do it well and learn everything you can. Then, go to a Tech company. 🤷🏻♀️ (or stay if it’s awesome)
I’m currently self employed who’s self taught in digital marketing. However this may be a good plan, get into a company to do a tech-facing role then transfer into the tech industry itself. This is good advice, thank you!
For tech sales you can do a bootcamp. I know of several people who have done SV Academy and have easily gotten a job with no exp.
I’ll look them up. Thank you!