Did you know of our company before we reached out?

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Question to all the talent acquisition managers out there; When you ask a candidate if they knew of the company before you reached out (given that that's how you met the candidate), would you rather them say yes or no? Or does it not matter?

19g615l250vf7j · Accepted Answer

As a recruiter if I'm reaching out to them, I don't care. If they apply and they can't tell me about the company then that's another story

bringee · Answer

I used to recruiter for Amazon and honestly, I never even asked that question to candidates in the first place (for obvious reasons), but I would ask what their interest was in joining Amazon. I wasn't looking for any right or wrong answer on that, but moreso looking to see if they could really just communicate well enough and if they have people skills.

Even if you have to fake interest in Amazon, as long as you can communicate something relatively well, then it'd check the box for me. I don't need you to show me your undying passion for Amazon, just say something like, "Oh I really want to work on a high impact project and this team sounded like it could be that fit." You'd be surprised how unhinged some of the responses were to that question.

I now work for a smaller company and do ask the question now, but similar to the above, I'm not looking for a right or wrong answer per se, but I do expect at least some due diligence about it. So I guess to directly answer your question, I would prefer a candidate say yes, but again, you don't have to kiss my ass when you say it.

My main goal is to make sure you at least know that you applied for the job at my company (again, you'd be surprised how many people didn't know what company I was calling from despite my email signature, email address, etc...), but I am always happy to explain more details about what our company does. Again, the main goal is to just make sure you have some people skills lol

tol23 · Answer

Sometimes we are asking so we know how much to sell in the first call

nullAndVoid · Answer

Ideally you did some research on their company so that you can atleast fake some interest in what they do

19g615l25w0l5j · Answer

A lot of tech recruiters are extremely dumb

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