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Topic: Conde Nast HR/Job Postings
| Author | Message |
| Capote 2.0 | Posted – 4/21/2008 2:50:39 PM | show profile I saw a job posting here on Mediabistro seeking a Market Assistant for one of Conde Nast's magazines, started working on the online application without having finished it, and the following day the posting was gone. That posting had been online for only three days. Could the position already be filled? Or is it more likely that the posting/application is being edited? I noticed that while the position was explicitly described as a non-fashion position, had an application that asked a lot of fashion questions. |
| NYCWriter9423 | Posted – 4/21/2008 6:14:00 PM | show profile Most likely neither In my experience, CN doesn't post actual openings. More often than not, those openings don't correspond to actual positions. The best thing to do if you don't have a personal contact there is apply for a position anyway -- just know that the position isn't open. rebeccalbrown.tumblr.com |
| s_sanaru | Posted – 4/22/2008 10:43:41 AM | show profile I would concur with that. Knowing the competition for publishing jobs in NY, anytime you see one posted on an online company HR form, my guess is that is to meet some admin regulation and not really to find candidates. |
| astrahook | Posted – 4/22/2008 12:33:04 PM | show profile why would they spend several thousand dollars a year posting jobs that don't exist? To amass a data bass of assistants? Might it just be possible that your background was not a fit for the role in which you applied? |
| snappiness | Posted – 4/22/2008 12:51:28 PM | show profile Companies like to (or sometimes have to) document that they did a search to fill a position. Universities also do this. They'll advertise the job, and sometimes even interview, while knowing all along they're going to offer it to Last Year's Intern or Joe's niece. |
| astrahook | Posted – 4/22/2008 1:54:28 PM | show profile conde is a privately held company. they have always done things their way & having worked with them in the past I can guarantee its not policy they had to post anything. Often times there will be a candidate in the mix and they want to see more resumes or a posting will be made and as you mentioned, Joe's niece is then hired. MOST often however , the candidate who responded to the posting does not match the criteria of the position. |
| foodlit | Posted – 4/22/2008 2:07:47 PM | show profile A job does not have to ever be posted externally. What does happen is that a job must be posted INTERNALLY for 7 days before the position is filled. That is to give internal employees a fair shot at an open position. However, if they have someone in mind for it, they will hire the person as soon as the 7 days are up. There's never a need to go external unless they want to seriously consider external candidates. So, if you applied and didn't hear, you just didn't wow them more than someone else. Keep going and apply elsewhere. |
| Hanschak | Posted – 4/22/2008 5:01:32 PM | show profile This is incorrect. Large publishing companies like CN and the nameless one that I used to work for have to externally post postitions for legal reasons surrounding issues of equal opportunity, hiring diversity, nepotism, etc. I am personally aware of ads we placed for jobs that no one had any chance of being hired for because they were already filled. |
| Suet | Posted – 4/22/2008 5:14:22 PM | show profile I, too, worked at a fairly large publisher that would post jobs that had definitely already been filled, for the reasons cited (especially equal employment opportunity). That company was bought, and the new owner does the same thing only on a larger scale, and in fact does it when they are laying people off with no intention of replacing them too. |
| paludi1 | Posted – 4/22/2008 5:31:18 PM | show profile "I noticed that while the position was explicitly described as a non-fashion position, had an application that asked a lot of fashion questions." I wouldn't feel too bad that you did not hear back--web forms like careers@condenast.com are a one-size-fits-all black hole where resumes go to die. I do not know of anyone that has ever been hired through one of those. |
| lifeisbetteredited | Posted – 4/22/2008 10:48:34 PM | show profile astrahook It's "database," not "data bass." I just had to say something. |
| paludi1 | Posted – 4/23/2008 11:52:26 AM | show profile No--that big instrument with the strings that looks like an oversized violin--Data bass. |
| foodlit | Posted – 4/23/2008 3:24:17 PM | show profile Big companies do post ads, but not usually externally unless they are seeking external candidates. I'm just saying it's the exception. I've worked at a large company, and maybe it varies, but we had to account for OCC compliance, and track diversity efforts. Positions don't always have to be posted externally, often an internal posting is sufficient because the goal is generally to promote from within whenever possible. It could be that if OCC standards wouldn't be met by posting internally, then they'd go out, but it was generally a last resort. Companies don't want to post externally if they don't have to, as it's a nightmare processing all the resumes that come in if you've got a candidate that is ready to accept. So, my point is that in most cases, a job posting is real. |
| delpleno | Posted – 4/23/2008 4:16:47 PM | show profile Tufts University Office of Publications posted a job on MediaBistro about 2 months ago for an art director. Having worked there, I immediately hit up one of my former colleagues for the scoop; the job was one that was already filled by one of my other former colleagues and the posting was for compliance reasons only. Oh, that fish with the stripes and the big mouth... dat a bass. |
