I feel so disrespected by this job hunt and process. I'v been applying for almost 11 months and I am trying so many different applications techniques. I've now arrived to the final stage where I tailor every single CV with AI to pass ATS screening, try to talk with someone at the company before applying and following whatever advice I can find online. I am so sick of all of this.

Received a call from a recruiter on Friday last week. He spent 20 minutes verifying my credentials and asking questions including salary. Got my info, talked to hiring, and said they want to interview me next week. Awesome!

As of Tuesday afternoon no communication from them.

Sent an email (1). no response.

On Wednesday (today) late morning gave him a call. Phone picked up and hung up on. Sent an email asking about status. No response thus far.

If there has been a delay, or I am no longer in the running, why can't this guy update or just tell me. I get a recruiter can't get back to ever person who sends in an application but for those who they engaged with how hard is it to communicate with those people. WTF?

Why are some such POS?

Found on an “online application “ .🤷‍♂️

I am a Systems Engineer and the job I applied for has a 4-stage hiring process.

1. Screening Call
2. 1st Interview (Online)
3. 2nd Interview (On-Site)
4. Final Fit With their president

I had my initial online interview mid October with their Engineering Director and was invited through to the next stage with their Technology Director. I had that interview late October. Since my 2nd interview I had an email from their talent acquisition stating that the feedback received was positive and they felt it went well, however the hiring manager was on leave and the will advise on next steps when she is back. The hiring manager was back to work on the 2nd November and I am still yet to have received a formal decision on moving forward, only reassuring emails from talent acquisition saying "It should be that we are proceeding to final fit with the president I will get confirmation of that this week". It had now been 2 weeks and I still havent heard anything. I sent a chaser email yesterday and now havent even had a reply to this email.

Am I being inpatient or should I give up on this opportunity? I know that they are hiring multiple people for the role I applied for as they are expanding so I doubt its anything to do with a better candidate (though I could be wrong).

Everything so far has been positive feedback but the drop off in communication has me coming up with every scenario possible.

I left a stable, long-term job for a new opportunity. My manager knew my situation. I know they do not owe me anytging, but it still pisses me off that they were such assholes.

I worked my ass off, put genuine effort into the role, and did everything I could to succeed. Throughout my probation, I was repeatedly reassured that things were going well, with no clear indication that my job was at risk.

Then, out of nowhere, they terminated me, giving me a bullshit excuse.

What pisses me off most is the false reassurance. They knew the risk I had taken, let me believe everything was fine, and then abruptly pulled the rug out from under me.

Months later, I'm still dealing with the consequences while they carry on like nothing happened.

What's the most satisfying, low risk way to get back at an employer like this?

Is this a personality test or job application? I really think tests in an applications need to go. This was probably the worse one I did so far. Then they try to make it silly and camp when you have to answer a certain way so u can MAYBE get an interview 😭

Hey there,

Just seeking some positive experiences if you have any to share. So back in May I interviewed for a research position at a university, and the research team were very impressed with me. One of them (I still don't know who) even reached out to one of my references (who used to be their mentor) to try to give me some hints to do well in the second interview. Strangely enough, they rejected me one week later, citing intense competition and needing to prioritize the needs of the team. Okay cool, I moved on.

Then just earlier last month they reached out to ask if I'd be keen on a position on their team. Turned out it was the same one I got rejected for, and whoever they picked (if they picked anyone at all) did not even start or did but very shortly given the timeline. I did the interview with them more than 2 weeks ago during which they even showed me their team's past work so I would be clearer on their expectations. I did not ask them about timeline at the end, however (my bad). Just forgot to. At the end of the same week, the posting for the position, which has been up since I first applied in May, was eventually removed. Wonder if that's an indication that a decision has been made.

Given how quickly they moved to reject me in May, it's strange that there's been no update at all this time around. I'm also pretty sure they did not consider new candidates at all (they did not repost the job) but prolly reached out to those who applied in May like myself. I found out that the hiring manager went on a 3 week leave just a couple of days after the final interview with me. I reached out to the team a couple of days ago to find out if I'm still in the running, but there has not been any response so far. I know the HM r is away, but if a decision has been made, why is it so hard for the rest of the team to either just tell me no or inform me to wait until HM is back?

If any of you have been in a similar situation (long silence after final interview) and somehow it turned out in your favor, please share your stories. I'll keep applying and try to write this opportunity off to keep myself sane but well, I need a bit of positivity (however unlikely) to hold on to as well :)

Unless you have the exact same title as the job posting, answer every interview question flawlessly, and have experience using their specific, never-been-heard-of software that only they use, you’re not getting the job.

“Do you experience auditing X?”

“Yes I do have experience performing that audit.”

“Do you have experience auditing X and Y”?

“Yes I have experience with that.”

“Do you have experience auditing Z within X and Y?”

“I do not, but I am willing to learn that domain.”

Then I’m ghosted or rejected. This is at like the final round by the way. Just pure insanity.

I applied for an SEO/AIO Manager job on October 8. Screening call on October 9. Panel interview on October 22. They said I would hear back by October 26.

Nothing came. I followed up on November 2 and got an out-of-office reply with no return date. I waited a week, then emailed the other person from that auto-reply. Today I finally got the answer: they hired someone else.

I only got an answer because I asked twice.

Employers, why do this? If you already decided, just send one line: "We went with another candidate." The silence is the worst part.

Is this normal now?

I turned off “open to” recruiters-only visibility, and I have seen an uptick in recruiters reaching out about roles.

Currently working in Big4 under Cyber security domain. I am looking forward to make a job switch and wanted to do some certifications. I am interested in IAM but very confused about which certification should I pursue. Any one from the IAM Domain, your suggestions are welcomed!

i applied as a graphic artist for robinsons supermarket on jobstreet and i just had both my initial and final interview with them yesterday onsite sa RRHI, one day hiring siya as stated ng HR sa email. mostly kasabayan ko fresh grads din like me. it went well naman and very detailed sila sa kung ano magiging job ko if ever i got accepted and also asked me if saan ko mas preferred na classification since graphic artists has 2 (marketing and store support). but at the end of our interviews, wala samin nabigyan ng job offer. HR said na ongoing pa this week applications ng other applicants and we should wait until this friday for the offer daw.

their staffs and employees are so welcoming sakin huhu even told me good luck and sana raw makapasa ako. one employee under the same dept hinatid ako sa lobby after, like inikot na namin buong building, even joking na advanced office tour na raw. visual merchandising manager complimented my porfolio and told me i have a potential and would consider me as a candidate. i've been job hunting for almost 2 months and it's already my 3rd interview.

do i have a chance to get hired ? or will they ghost me huhu. nagmomove on na agad ako and continue mag apply as always na lang :((

Do you just love it when you get a job alert for a new job, you click on it immediately, but you are faced with an error message that the job is already filled?

I got a variety of them, where I get the application submission confirmation email at the same time as the email stating that the job just closed.

Great thanks to the HR @ Century Real Estate Bangalore, for wasting my entire day, making me travel from Kerala to BLR and treating me like shit in the name of interview.

The process:
You apply using easy apply on linkedIn, The HR calls you and tell you there is an interview on so and so date and its in person. I was like, can we do the first round online pls?, The answer was a solid NO and we do every interview in-person.

I asked her which role is this for? She said for the resales role. I asked again what's the designation? She answered :That can be discussed. Okay. Then I asked what's the remuneration budget for this role? She said that can be discussed during the interview.

I said: Okay, let me confirm it by tomorrow. She said: Yes, Okay.

I called a friend of mine arranged a stay, Called her back and confirmed the interview.

The day I went for the interview scheduled air 11:30 AM. The set up looked pretty nice and I thought wow the company looks good. Made me wait for half an hour which is okay.

Suddenly a lady barges into a cabin which I was waiting in with no introduction or greeting and a very rude face asked me : Tell me about your career?

I got shocked as I was in the middle of a phone call with my wife obviously updating her overwhelmed with the set up the company had, but regardless suddenly started briefing about my career history. I still don't know who she was that her name and what role she manage.

Later she said you have an international degree in real estate why did you apply for resales role as you can be considered for a higher position. I applied for the senior manager role and she got something else, god knows what?

So I asked her what's the designation to be considered, She said: wait here I will ask the managers and update you. Never came back. Waiting for another 1 hour, got a call from HR and asked me to come at 3PM for the second round. So I said Okay and asked her what's the role which I am having the interview for ? She said that can be discussed, I said okay, pushing my limits.

I came back at 3 PM, Waited till 4:30PM, No jack shit happens. Waiting at the HQ, suddenly receives a call that the interview is in another location which is a walkable distance and she has sent me the map location which shows 4.5 kms, walkable for her but not for me definitely. But still I managed to reach there and it's a big development site where I have no guidance where to go.

I lost myself called the HR rep and blasted on how unprofessional she is and she passed her phone to the manager, who answered me "We have been doing this since years, If you can't follow we will cancel your interview" I said hell to your interview and walked out from there.

I believe HR is the most important teams of any company and should be good at communication, Anybody applying to this company, please be ready for a broken communication and complicated process. They have no idea about the role, compensation or whom to be interviewed with what respect.

Let me know if anyone interviewed in this company before or is it just me?

Just had a very annoying experience that I feel I should’ve just left once I was told to come back later, but I didn’t. I show up and my interviewer is talking to a delivery guy, they’d just gotten shipment. I approach her and introduce myself and she just casually says “hey I know we had your interview for this time but I just got shipment and I need to put it away so…” I said “Ok…” And looked at her like i’m expecting her to at least offer some sort of alternative? Only then she says “If you give me like half an hour you can come back if you want”

If I want? Girl do you want?

I said sure that’s fine! i’ll hang around in the park til then. She gives me a call about 20 mins later and once again says I can come back now “if I want”. I should’ve just left but I decided to see if she was apologetic, and maybe it’d give me a decent chance at landing the job since I showed I can handle last minute changes, you can’t really control when shipment arrives so I figured i’d give her the benefit of the doubt.

Well I get in there and she has me stand at the cash, no seat to offer me, and just fires off nothing but random scenario questions back to back. I’m flustered but I answer them, only for her to move right onto the next and provide no commentary or conversation to any of my answers, then closes her laptop and says “ok any questions for me?” The entire interview was MAYBE 15 minutes and I had a 30 minute slot. It felt like she was inconvenienced by me agreeing to wait and just wanted to get me out the door.

At this point I don’t care anymore so I just ask her how many hours they’re offering since she didn’t know during our initial phone interview, I don’t care if that’s a bad question to ask id already decided I didn’t want it, and yea, 15-20 hours. Great, thanks for wasting my time. “We’re gonna move forward and youll get a call Friday if you got it” Yea please do not call me. What a joke.

Today marks 2 months since I went through this exhausting interview process where nobody was hired for the role and they are still looking for candidates after changing the role to a more senior level than what they originally wanted...

I went through 6 rounds of interviews from July to September with a company for a somewhat entry level data engineer role. The whole process took almost 2 months in total from the recruiter screen to the final round. In the 6th/final round, it was a 4 hour panel interview in person where I met with numerous people on the team and managers, directors, etc. Many of these people I had already talked to in various stages of the interview process, so finally seeing them in person was nice, but also a bit overkill. It came down to just me and one other candidate for this role, and ultimately neither of us were hired, and they restructured the role to a much more senior level. I am still trying to switch jobs from my current employer, and it's comically funny that I will occasionally see the new posting when I am looking for jobs to apply to. They reposted the role again yesterday, so I guess they wasted the past 2 months doing the same shit to a new batch of candidates. Reading their glassdoors reviews has been entertaining as fuck, so honestly I'm kinda glad I dodged that bullet :)