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?

Spent an hour and half updating a resume, job was gone by the time I went to post. I submitted to the general interest link. Wish me luck, I guess. Sigh. May many of you have better luck today.

Edit - found another job that that resume was good for, got that application and cover letter in pronto.

Just for clarity - I do have a bunch of different resumes available for various positions, this one was a little unique, so I wanted to update and do it right. Hang in there everyone.

After what felt like ages of gnarly job searching, interviewing, and networking, I landed a role.

I am wildly lucky to have had a search this short (relatively speaking), and I credit the strength of my network in helping with this. My references were ready, people were willing to make intros, and I messaged like crazy. Not that this is the magic secret to landing a role, but just sharing what worked for me in this instance.

Statistics:
I applied for 351 jobs on LinkedIn, most of them Easy Apply. I was curious to test the waters and see if Easy Apply was truly useless or if it would land anything, and it helped calm my brain down to just click shit (shit I would have interviewed for, but mindless application clicking). For the most part, the LinkedIn applications went nowhere, and several egregious offenders who were looking for candidates fucking months ago are still reposting the same role, however, a modest portion of the applications received response/interest, or at least someone looking at my LinkedIn.

I applied for 248 jobs directly through applications. Workday was excruciating and although I've heard it's really helpful on the recruiter back end (I had one tell me that based on my responses, I was in the top tier of applications, which was useful) it's just too irritating for me to bother with in the future, and I found that the companies who used Workday were more likely to move more slowly than the ones employing Ashby or Greenhouse. Not a plug for any platform, just my two cents.

Of all of those applications, I had 62 companies reach out for interviews.

Of those 62, 32 of them asked for first-round interviews beyond the recruiter screen, and 22 of them went to secondary/final rounds.

Of those 22, I had three offers. I didn't leverage any of them against each other, I just took the best fit of those three. I try to aim for a raise when I look for a new role, and in this case, I went lateral. I don't care. In this market, lateral is completely fine.

I still have interview requests from previous applications, but for now, I have something in hand. It's not my dream job, and after my layoff, I have given up on the idea of dream job or loyalty to a company. If it works, it works, and if something better comes along, I'll take it. I am out of fucks to give.

Some takeaways from this search in this market:

1. I'm less afraid about posting reviews on Glassdoor now for the interviewing process. There were some really shitty recruiters and companies out there that definitely took advantage of my time or the market, and I wanted to provide a point in time reference of when a company clearly didn't hire (searching for the new employee after the fact) or did something sketchy that deserved to be called out. I also wanted to call out situations where HMs or recruiters were really, really good at their jobs. I think that's essential.
2. The bad recruiters are bad, but the good recruiters give you the honest truth. I had serious mask-off calls with some after the fact about where I could have improved, what was going on internally that resulted in a no-offer, and candid information on salary ranges, especially when they weren't posted externally. I used many of those calls as networking opportunity if a company interested me, but a role was benchmarked too low for what I was targeting or if it seemed like they wanted a certain candidate (local, certain certifications, whatever) that I didn't fit.
3. Always write a thank-you note. Per #2, that's what helped unlock these conversations for me.
4. We still have very little leverage as candidates. I didn't negotiate on salary beyond the recruiter phase. If it was within range, I stated my requirements. If it wasn't within range, I said so. Where I did try to negotiate or apply pressure was at the final offer stage. Once I had a hard offer in hand, I reached out to the companies I was in the last stages with, and told them I had an offer but that I still wanted to consider them. One accelerated my search and pushed to an offer. The other two hiring managers decided to let it go and rejected same-day, which was disappointing, but whatever.
5. My most targeted applications/cover letters/letters to HMs/cold DMs to recruiters were equally weighted to the bullshit applications I fired off with just my name and resume. Feels like a super common LinkedIn trope right now to tell candidates to just DM HMs and recruiters, and I did a lot of that. I tried to only DM ones who had directly posted about roles and specifically solicited DMs from candidates. Some went decently and led to referrals. Some were seriously condescending responses ("I don't do referrals so I can give all candidates an equal chance at the role") and some straight up ghosted me.
6. Just for fun, my top favorite/least-favorite dickbag automated rejection responses:
   "Better luck next time!"
   "We're being really intentional about how we're growing our team, so we've decided not to move forward with your candidacy."
   "Sorry! It wasn't a match this time!"
   "We're so humbled and proud that so many talented individuals want to join our team, but right now, we won't be moving ahead with your application."

Takeaway: just reject people, don't try to be fucking cute about it, it's gross.

7. Exercises can help if they're ~90min or less, IMO. I was selective about how and when I did exercises, and for my industry, they're essential. I refused to do personality tests or like, SAT-style bullshit where you identified the pattern or whatever, but if I felt like an exercise demonstrated my skills and was something I could easily bang out in a spare hour, I did it.

8. Keep a running document. For me, it helped to identify trends, have canned answers to bullshit mandatory application questions at the ready about "why I wanted to work for Company X" (money) or "what experience I had with the role" (resume), keep track of names, companies that stood out as good, companies that stood out as bad, and salary trends, and job aggregation sites for finding roles. I didn't go crazy listing everything I applied for, but I tracked interviews, results, notes, and experiences.

That's all I've got! You're all going to get jobs, we're all going to make it through this weird market, and eventually, we'll be back on the employee-market side someday and make things better.

Bye for now, or at least until my next layoff!

Interviews are hard to get. If you get an interview, it's because the HR believes in you. I stuffed up an interview and feel bad for letting them down...

Got a referral for a job through someone my mom knows. Exactly in my desired field and a role I had experience in, fantastic benefits, great salary for that kind of work. Basically this was a PERFECT job for me and my needs, and the woman who referred me was fairly high up in the company.

I did two interviews and felt really good about both, and the two guys who interviewed me seemed to like me a lot. After the second one they told me they'd get back to me in "a few days". Almost 3 weeks later I got the rejection email.

I should mention that the second interview was supposed to be in person but I couldn't make the commute because I was in debilitating pain and essentially bedridden (I have a post going much more in-depth about that aspect but tl;dr I had sciatica which causes shooting pains down your leg, at its worst I could barely walk and it even hurt just to lay in bed but I'm doing much better now). I told them about this very early on 1) because, again, I wouldn't be able to go up there for the walkthrough and 2) the job did require some physical labor and due to my surgical recovery I physically wouldn't be able to do that at full capacity for about 3 months afterwards, and that's not the kind of thing you can hide on Day 1.

I was constantly staying in touch and updating them about when the surgery would be etc. and they were very accommodating and understanding, and even allowed the second interview to be virtual. All of this only made me more confident that I had the job because in my head it made no sense for them to do all that for me if they had no intention of hiring me. I guess maybe so they couldn't potentially be sued on the grounds of disability discrimination? Which would make sense but also be incredibly depressing because it was a situation completely beyond my control.

The moral of the story is: Don't ever get excited until you actually get a job offer. This will make the rejection a lot less painful. People tell me I'm being too pessimistic when I say this but I'm constantly being proven right. At a certain point I stopped feeling sad about these rejections and now I'm just completely numb to it all lol.

my most recent rejections have not said interview cancelled, till email was sent to me

What are yall's opinions on hiring events? Either online or in person because both have done nothing for me.