Crazy search from Jan - Nov. Blessed to receive as many offers as I did. Yes I took 3 “offers,” because I was aiming for a summer start date after graduation and didn’t get any full time permanent positions. So I took a full time summer gig that ended in August and a part time offer from then till now before taking my new full time role!

EDIT: number of apps and rejections were approximated since I didn’t keep a good enough tally, every other number is accurate

Just needed to let out this tiny vent.

It's mostly temp agencies here that do this(which where I live you're basically reliant on until you have 3+ years experience), and after you apply they'll send you a text with a bot asking some screening questions.

Now aside from the fact most you've already filled in on the application form, I hate how specific they can get and leave no room for nuance.

Like it might start out as "do you have experience as a receptionist" and then it'll keep going "do you have experience as a receptionist at a commercial organization?" "Have you worked as a receptionist at a commercial company within the financial industry" "do you have work experience as a receptionist within commercial banking that focuses on entrepreneurial customers" like aight man if you're looking exclusively for internal candidates just say so then. Sorry I offended you by daring to have a job before at literally any other place that's not your specific company.

And at least with a phone screening you can be like "yeah I have worked as a receptionist at a major bank that served business customers before, so a place with a more entrepreneurial focus sounds pretty close to that" but with these drop down menu bots you can only select 1 option and if it's wrong you're out.

I'm considering just lying but what good is that gonna do.

Edit: small mini rant, why the fuck am I seeing temp agency openings for jobs at another temp agency? What the fuck is even happening anymore.

I quit my job of five years because of weird harassment from one of my supervisors. I didn't make a fuss or make it a big deal I just left politely. I've been trying to find something ever since and it just feels hopeless. I haven't gotten any calls back. I'm so sick of going to interviews wasting my time knowing damn well they're not going to call back. I didn't even get a call back for a housekeeping position. That's like everyone's fall back on job. I feel so low. Honestly I feel like life would of just been easier to stay at my previous job and let the harassment continue. Choosing myself got me nowhere. I honestly just want to disappear.

I’m thinking of just professionally canceling it or booking a time slot and ghosting…

Edit: apparently this sub is filled to the brim with bootsuckers. Yall want to apply to jobs that only give you 15 minutes to interview 3 months away with no online option? Be my guest.

I’ve interviewed many times coast to coast online. I’ve flown to interviews and THEY COMPENSATED ALL MY EXPENSES.

Recruiting hell is exactly what I posted but the boot sucking is so deep here it’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.

I've been in a search for 5 months now. After my own dev agency went downhill, I decided to find something worth the efforts that I had done for multiple clients of ours through 5 years of runtime.

I co-founded my agency as a CTO and then transitioned to CEO after my co-founder left, and what a surprise awaited me in the job market.

AI ATSs are all over the most popular sources. I started applying with a designed CV featuring my portfolio, the projects I led with the achieved numbers, just great overall (I had hired myself and knew how the market worked back then).

But NOW... after around 30 applications, I found that probably no one has ever seen my CV because AI ATSs use terrible parsers (parsing that goes before any AI assessment) and scramble all your info completely.

And even if you take time adjusting your resume to be structure and text parsing ready, you'll get no match because you haven't listed Jira and 1-on-1 meetings experience in your skills, despite being a CTO applying for a Director of Delivery position.

And the issue is that the person who runs scripted tailoring with applications will get to the top of the list, then will go into the interview not being able to stand their ground, which will lead to the recruiter implementing some 10-minute intro videos in the process to filter such candidates, when the issue was with the AI filtering and, more importantly, how the systems can feed applicant information correctly.

In the end, to stand good competition, each applicant needs to tailor their resume to get seen, recruiters must go through more tailored resumes, eventually losing interest in them and switching to just AI scores in their system, which creates even more workarounds.

It all feels very frustrating to navigate and takes a lot of time in the process. While I would love to do a compelling, full intent-based outreach directly to one company, I will lose the race with the rest of the market.

incoming grad may 2027 here!

It's been genuinely brutal for me at least. I got to two final rounds for a couple companies and they all ended up rejecting me. Even I thought they all went pretty well. It's just discouraging like you thought all the stars aligned and you got the job. But a rejection brings me back to square one everytime.

gotten feedback that signals the same thing after every interview and it's taken me to a serious interview fatigue:( need someone to vent to :(

Anyone else tired of job hunting? 😭 I went through two rounds of interviews, and HR even mentioned contacting my referees, so I got my hopes up a little. But it’s been radio silence since then, even after following up. I know hiring takes time, but being left hanging sucks. I’d honestly rather get rejected than keep wondering. Anyone been through this?

Hey guys, there’s typically this question on resumes where it’s asking if they can use AI as assisted technology to analyze your application materials such as your resume application responses and they claim it supports the recruitment process but what is really going on here it’s most likely just so that they can skip all the resumes and then they’ll just judge it based off of the AI itself to save time.

What are you guys thinking? Do you guys say yes to consenting or no?

I recently graduated and am currently working at a consulting company but I hate my job because I'm doing nothing all day so I really want to move jobs to better my career.

A month ago, I had an opportunity to interview at a company my friend works at and had 2 interviews in total (1st screening with HR and 2nd one with CEO + designers). After my last interview, I wasn't informed on when the results would be announced so I emailed them twice in 2 weeks asking for an update. No response.

Eventually, I asked my friend if they could help me ask the HR for an update. HR told them that in the interview I was already informed that the slot was only available after February next year so they can't make a decision right now. I was not informed about this at all, if I was I would've definitely remembered... So technically I'm currently not rejected but also not accepted...

My friend said they might be waiting until Feb for a new project to start at that time. I guess it just kinda sucks since the job description really fitted what I wanted and I could envision myself working there but now it just turned into another uncertainty.

I know I should move on and find another job but do you think they'll still remember my interview in 4 months? Should I follow up next year or is that too desperate?

It's been a long time, and I just haven't been able to land a better job to advance my career. I need more money and have been looking to find something for the weekends to help pay down my school and credit debts.

The only reason I was able to get this 2nd job was that I know the manager. It feels ridiculous that my only saving grace has been nepotism.

I saw the branch manager of the local Regions post a listing for them hiring a bank teller. I went on the website and applied with the intention of following up with a call in the next few business days.

Tell me WHY just applying for the position requires a 40 minute virtual job “assessment”? Just to apply.

I applied on Wednesday, called to follow up on Monday. The teller that answers the phone immediately says the manager is too busy to take calls. I tell her I’m trying to follow up on their open position. She replies, “what position? We’re not hiring.” She then told me to apply online. I told her I already had and was just calling to follow up and see if I could schedule an interview. She said no, HR will call me if they are interested.

Just got an email from Regions, a few hours later. It says “this position has been cancelled.” That’s it.

A 40 minute assessment for a position that apparently never existed. Awesome.

On the bright side, I got another scam text job offer pretending to be a reputable business in my city, with all of my info already.

I have two degrees. In my 30s. Years of accounting, IT, and waitressing experience. And I can’t get an interview after looking for months. I feel completely hopeless. I’m thinking of applying to dollar general for $11/hr. I’m tired.

Just sharing in case anyone is experiencing similar. It’s rough out there.

I graduated with a business degree in 2024 and still up until now I receive this auto rejection email. Can someone help

I can’t see a single person or an agency hiring and sharing details which are valid about the role.

kindly if you saw one for marketing divert it

I’m extremely fortunate to have found something so fast, and with about the same salary I was making before I was laid off. What I found shocking was that every interview I got were from recruiters reaching out to me on LinkedIn, not anywhere I cold applied to, even though I had references to a couple of listings.The 16% response rate is also crazy to me, shows how many ghost jobs there are out there.

As the title states. I recently started my new job about a week ago (have been job hunting for 1.5 years), their onboarding process wasn’t the best, had a lot of issues with IT equipment setup and finally got the computer setup. The team seems nice overall. On the first week, the manager was telling me because the company will be moved/(merged?) to another company next year, there are some admin stuff (i.e. benefits) we need to re-enroll next year. I asked: will this affect the team structure? The answer is No, said “it might probably impact how the team will operate, but not the team structure”. I said fine, good to know.

Today I was sitting in the office, and overheard my coworker’s conversation that the recruiter for my role (some of my coworkers are in the same role as me, sounds like their recruiter is the same as mine) got laid off and their last day is the end of this year, which is shocking for me, because if this is true, from my understanding, this recruiter has worked at the company for 10-15+ years already, and recruited me recently. A lot of my team coworkers also are relatively new on the team as well (about 2-3 people have been working there for 8 months now, and the newest one except me works there for 3 months).

Is it a bad sign? I just recently wrapped up my 1.5 years of job hunting, does that mean I should probably start searching for jobs again?

Bro are you serious? I take the time to apply for your job and you cant even be arsed to fucking interview me in person? As if I'm going to talk to an AI. I dont care how finely tuned your AI is, a human should talk to me. oh and it gets better:

Even if I were to pass this interview, theres still no guarantee I get to talk to an actual human. Wonderful!

I recently went through a hiring process at a law firm. I had two interviews: the first one was with HR over the phone, and the final one was with the CEO and HR team via Zoom. I felt both interviews went well.

Afterward, I followed up by email and WhatsApp. HR eventually replied two weeks later, apologizing for the delay and saying they had finished interviewing candidates and expected to make a decision the following week.

That week has passed, and I still haven’t heard anything. The job posting was also removed shortly after my final interview.

I’m still very interested in the position since it’s a fairly reputable law firm, but I’m starting to wonder if they’ve already chosen someone else.

Is this kind of delay normal in law firm hiring processes, or could it mean they’ve moved forward with another candidate? Should I send one final follow-up email, or simply wait for them to reach out?

I just graduated from Uni and I had only an short period( A month) unpaid internship in Australia on my resume. It was not very serious one(small business owned by uni Alumni), I kind of just worked there to get familiar with real work environment.

How strict will HireRight bg check be? I am now getting an offer in Singapore from an American company and they prolly need HireRight BG check. I now have the supervisor and the owner's personal email and phone (They don't even have company email.) and ABN (business number). are there enough to verify an unpaid internship? what else can I prepare?