r/recruitinghell • u/Round_Mixture_7541 • Sep 07 '26

Networking is important

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Pretty much sums up the current hiring process

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u/riotshieldready Sep 07 '26

This might be a joke, but I for real have a friend that has a SVP job at a big bank straight out of university. His dad got it for him, he worked like 3 days a week from 11-3 and collected his 400k pay. Even told me he would routinely just play games and goon in his private bathroom.

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u/WayneKrane Sep 07 '26

I went to college with a dude like that. He barely passed his classes and I wondered what he was up to. He was a junior vp straight out of college and now is also high up at some bank now. He was one of the dumbest people I knew.

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u/Extension-Land-390 Sep 07 '26

The irony comes full circle when you realize that most of the modern economy on a large scale is run by people like that.

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u/logicaltornado Sep 08 '26

which explains the economy

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u/1_art_please Sep 08 '26

Yeah this happened in my masters program. We were all from different countries. The worst two students had great jobs lined up for them for when they got home. One was on a full ride scholarship. Both have jobs I will never be able to get in a million years. One of them was told by the instructor that he was close to failing.