One of the toughest challenges I've been having is communicating with recruiters for design positions. I feel like the layoff is the only place I can say my frustrations without being ostracized. I know if I were to post about this on linkedin, I would get praise and backlash.
I've done several jobs for nike over the last 5 years but can't seem to get out of the contract limbo. I've interviewed with them several times only for the position to go to a contractor already on the team. Feels like ghost jobs at this point.
I'm not sure if there's a hiring freeze but I applied for a position 5 months ago and heard nothing back. I would think the position should be taken down until the freeze is over. Recruiters seem to never respond to my linkedin message. It just feels very unorganized given the climate we're in.
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@eq that's disheartening.
Put it this way, I was interviewed for a design position back in January and never heard back from the recruiter
Nike’s talent team has been awful since before the pandemic. Sad but true. They ruin a lot of great opportunities for teams and incoming talent.
But hey, at least they got a new website with AI at core, that should fix everything, right?
We laid off a large percentage of our talent recruitment team a while ago which probably doesn't help responsiveness. There is absolutely a hiring freeze in place for several months now. If you don't have a current VP level person willing to champion you it's going to be super tough to go from contract to full time.