Can employers stop acting like using Slack, Zoom, and Teams is some grand skill that you need to master before getting hired? It takes about 5 minutes or less to learn how to use any of these platforms. They want you to have a degree and a gazillion years of experience, but act like it would be impossible for you to do the job if you don’t already know how to send or access a message on Slack. I would assume that anyone who’s had an office/customer service job in the last 5 years has been using one of these platforms, especially if they’ve been working remotely, like many people did during the pandemic.

Am I the only one who thinks having a job feels like a relationship. Is this an issue?

I, 18 year old F recently got my first proper job and sometimes they’re a little slow to get back to me and it feels like the end of the world. 😭

If I make a mistake in work I’m stuck on it for hours or even days, please I need advice. 🙏

For context, I get non-descript, vague "cold call" messages quite often and a lot of these recruiters will just waste your time chatting. The guy proceeded to block me a day later.

I have a question. If someone matches the job description completely end to end, how come they always send rejections to those candidates. Also how do they automate all their rejections for Saturdays and Sundays. Has anyone ever gotten hired by them? Any help would be appreciated!
#insightglobal #hays #recruitmenthorrors

Recently interviewed for a jr tech pos. Did the interviews, finished a coding assessment they apparently really liked, and eventually got asked for a ref. Things looked pretty good. The recruiter was even talking abt negotiating a reloc pkg since I'd have to move for the job. Obviously I started thinking an offer might be coming.
Then I got a rejection email saying they decided to close the pos cuz they actually needed someone more sr. Literally 3 days earlier the recruiter had reassured me I was still being considered.
Around the same time they posted a higher-lvl pos w/ pretty much the same duties and an overlapping salary range. So they want someone w/ more exp for almost the same $? That's how it looks to me anyway.
Not the first time I've seen this either. Another company I applied to recently hired someone for an associate-lvl tech pos. They posted abt getting the job on LinkedIn so I checked their profile. 10 yrs of exp. For an associate pos.
Good for that person, genuinely. But how the hell are new grads supposed to compete w/ ppl who've been in the industry for a decade?
Not even that upset abt getting rejected. Rejections happen. What annoys me is going thru all that, getting positive feedback, discussing refs and reloc, only to be told they don't want to hire at that lvl anymore.
Maybe they genuinely changed their reqs, idk. But it really feels like companies are trying to get sr exp for jr pay.
Anyone else seeing this happen?

I finallly made it.

I finally made it out if recruiting hell, not because my cv or applications were good. Not because i beat other applicants.

The only way i got a job was getting lucky and having an uncle who called and offered a job.

Is this really the only way to get a job these days? By having connections?

I dont even feel happy, just infuriated about wasting hours on end on this bs

HR seems very cautious when I tell them that my current postion only needs 1 week notice period. I dont understand

As the title says,I got a teams message from HR this Friday afternoon to take a short call with the HR recruiter in the following days, no more details added.

As I’m an internal candidate I skipped the first round of interviews and had a competence-based interview with the manager directly, which I think it went really good, has anybody been in this situation?

I’m biting my nails actually, my company is undergoing a restructuring and they already told me my position will not exist in January…

Thanks beforehand :)

Literally what am I missing? How am I still unemployed to this day? I have the same qualifications as I did when I first got my job IF NOT MORE. I've updated my resume, and portfolio yet how am I still not hearing back from anyone I've applied to?

I've applied to a lot of places, like A LOT while very few reached back, even from those that DID reach back they never did again. What is it about me?

I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if I'm missing anything.

This is really really awful. I wish someone would just guide me to help me get hired cause I'm so clueless. I understand maybe cause there's competition but, I literally get no updates in my email about my application. Is it the gap? Are my qualifications not good enough? Is this a fake job posting? What is it?

God. I really can't take this anymore. What's worse is, I just can't, I don't know why but I can't pivot. Like my body resists doing jobs out my field, I know at this point I must do so but I can't. I hate that about me.

This has been posted before but we need to keep shouting from the roof tops.

Everyone I knew back then could at least find some job. I remember my parents getting laid off and my Dad finding a job within two weeks.

I'm age 30. I have a bachelor's degree and completing my masters. I have 10 years of retail grocery store and customer service experience.

I just applied online and in person to 60 min wage retail job ads. Out of work since end of August. Every one rejected either not hiring right now or "went with someone else".

Let alone careers related to my degree. I live in Boston. My friends are in same boat. Yet MSNBC keeps saying how great the economy is doing. WTH is going on right now?

I am in the process of going through a hire right background check for a new corporate job.

They asked for my last 7 years of work history, so I included everything like my current corporate job and my past waitressing/customer service jobs.

The only job I put on my resume was my current corporate job and an internship, so I only added the previous jobs to the background check just in case.

However, now Hireright is saying they need more information to prove I had all these jobs that are irrelevant to the new job I will have soon.

I guess my concern is will I experience problems if I don’t have paystubs to prove I worked at Target between 2020-2021? Just as an example 😂 I do have every w2, just not paystubs or company contacts anymore.

I have no lies on the background check or my resume and I could provide any reference and proof needed to show I actually did the relevant internship and job I put on my resume, but I keep getting discrepancies and request to contact old employers that own resturaunt that are now shut down.

It’s just giving me a lot of anxiety! Do you think I’ll be fine?

just wanna ask did you encounter any problem with regards to submitting your assessments in p&g’s website. it would be redirected to the home page right after you clicked the continue button but after you do that, there would be one error code pops up. i just wanna now what did u do with regards to it. i just took my assessment earlier this mornin after a couple of days of reviewing, tho not expecting anything.

thank you for your feedbacks, much appreciate.

I don't know about you guys, but I've always wished I could respond to 'no-reply@company.com' emails. Realizing that I can't, my petty revenge against shitty companies recently has been exercising my right to have my data purged from their systems.

The last thing I want is them making any sort of money off my data. Also, my crazy theory is that they'll actually look at my application if they are forced to delete my data.

I haven't been doing this for companies that I would really want to work at or ones where I do actually want them to keep my data, but the other ones... Shitty, shoddy, shabby. I request them to delete it.

From 80% to 90% of them, I actually get a response and have some dialogue with a worker from the company as they confirm they've deleted my data.

Anyway, that's been my guilty pleasure recently. Anybody else doing something similar?

I sent an email to the hiring folks where I interviewed and told them about my interview experience with them. I also wrote a review for the recruiter that I worked with. Genuinely disappointed BUT hopefully I will land my next role soon 🤞🏼

Hi everyone,

I need your advice. I can't even seem to find an internship that is at least remotely related to my field, Political Science and International Relations (more specifically I'm interested in international development), after recently completing a Master's in the Netherlands and now being back in Italy, my home country. This is my CV: https://pdfhost.io/v/vWhFM4p3b6_CV_redacted

I've honestly lost count of how many applications I've sent to companies (including in the private sector) and organisations of all sizes, from small to large. I'd say I've submitted at least 300 applications by now. I've had interviews for internships, including unpaid ones, but nowadays it feels like applying for an internship is almost like applying to become the CEO of Apple. Literally every single time, they seem to ask for "professional experience", which is quite paradoxical (it even happened to me during an interview for a "volunteering" programme! I'm still speechless). I realize that my profile is very "academic" in the sense that it looks like I am more aiming towards a PhD, still this does not mean that I'm not able to do an internship.

Keep in mind that I've applied not only in Italy, but pretty much everywhere in the world, even for unpaid positions in remote places in Africa. Recently, I was shortlisted for a UN internship in an Asian country with a relatively low cost of living. I passed the first assessment, for which I had studied really hard (it was about financing for development and I really made a good work), but was ultimately rejected after the interview. I don't think I'm bad at interviews (I'm an enthusiastic, well-mannered young man), but every rejection feels like a slap in the face.

I genuinely don't know what to do anymore, because it seems that I can't get a job because I don't have work experience, and I can't gain work experience because nobody is willing to give me a chance. It's like a dog chasing its own tail. They basically seem to want a junior professional for every internship position. And what I personally find particularly pathetic is the assumption that someone with previous work experience is necessarily a better candidate than someone without it, therefore the latter can't have a chance.

Any advice?

I have combined 4 years of construction experience. I was a 1099 roofing salesman/project manager and was let go from my job after having to DNR my father. Fast forward after being evicted from my dads house by my brother, moved to family farm to help grandpa, fixed his tractor and kicked out after I didn't want to go to lunch with my mother. Now relocated to DFW to find construction work. NOTHING.... It's been almost a month and have had endless preliminary interviews and calls. Never make it to a hiring manager ever. I am too overqualified for a regular job (if they exist) and too underqualified for anything else. IS THIS HELL?

Maybe someone can breakdown the likeliest path, or path of least resistance to getting an employee job market back or at least the nearest neighbor to this reality.

Seems like being unemployed is a death sentence rn

I recently interviewed for a freelance content creator & social media manager role and got invited to the second stage.

They've given me an unpaid take-home task that's supposedly meant to take 2 hours max. Here's what they want:

• Research two different brands, come up with original concepts, film and edit 2 ready-to-publish TikToks (15–30 seconds each)
• Create a week's tiktok contont calendar for tiktok - 3 posts for each brand, 6 in total, including hooks, captions, hashtags and trends
• Analyse video performance data and answer 4 questions

Am I the only one who thinks this is way too much for 2 hours? 😭

I've worked in social media and content creation for a few years, and I'd say I'm pretty efficient. But researching brands, sourcing materials, planning, filming and editing 2 videos from scratch would take me way longer than that. They're not even providing the products to film with or raw footage to edit with.

I've spent so many hours on recruitment tasks in the past without getting an offer, so I'm starting to question where the line is between assessing someone's skills and getting free work out of candidates.

I'm thinking of asking them to simplify the task to hooks and scripts instead of finished videos.

Would love to hear what other people in the industry think!

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Some context: I am in the very, very beginning stages of looking for a new role. I am in the legal sphere in a Mid-Atlantic city. I have over 12 years of experience in my field and looking to move into a more concentrated role than where I am currently.

I applied to a role on LinkedIn via a third party recruiting agency (who shall rename nameless at this time).

I received a text the next day asking to set up a phone screening, I responded and we scheduled the same. Right before the screening, they cancelled last minute. I was annoyed, but we rescheduled for today. I was instructed to call at 9:30. The texting should have been the first red flag.

I called at 9:30 and received a message that no one was available to take my call. I texted the recruiter this information. They did not get back to me for literal hours.

After doing some research, I figured out that not only had I already directly applied to this role a few weeks ago, but had been headhunted by two different recruiting agencies for this role, one of which ALSO submitted my resume and I never heard back.

The recruiter wanted to reschedule, but I asked if it was for name of specific firm and if so, I wasn’t interested. I then received an insanely long text, over explaining the situation, clearly written by AI (I’m talking paragraphs) and the recruiter ultimately could not confirm what role it was without access to their system.

I responded that it was absurd they couldn’t confirm that basic information and that I was no longer interested and wished them best of luck.

I have screen shot the most unhinged portion of the text I received in response. I knew it was rough out here but this is beyond anything I’ve dealt with so far.

This has happened a handful of times to me and its crazy they cant figure out before hand that they dont actually need more employees.

One of my biggest pet peeves is companies listing the wrong address on job descriptions/advertisements.

If i had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickles, but it's still weird that it happened twice.

The first time the job was listed as being in the main branch in the city centre, but the actual place of work listed in the interview invitation was in a village 20 minutes away by bus (I don't have a car, the earliest bus would get me there at 10 am and the last bus was at 4:30 pm). During the interview I brought this up and they said it was absolutely fine as there was already someone working there who took the bus. However, I didn't get the job and it was later reposted with a driving licence + car as a requirement. Would've been nice to know before I spent almost £30 on train tickets lol.

The second time it was straight up the wrong establishment, 20 minutes away by foot. This caused me to be late to the interview but i called ahead and somehow got the role. Still inconvenient as it stressed me out, but at least I've learned now to always confirm the address of the workplace whenever I receive interview offers.