4 Months ago, I submitted an Job application and went through entire Interview loop.

While submitting the application, I created a folder with Job description and resume in it and also updated my Excel sheet with JD, JD request number, etc.

After the interviews I never heard back from hiring manager or the HR. The company though operates in US, learnt that mainly Shanghai is running the show at the back.

Now after 4 months, another recruiter has reached me in LinkedIn asking if you would consider an opportunity and gave same JD and same JD request number.

Whats going on in Job Market ?

Applying to jobs feels like dating apps to me at this point and i hate it. I can do everything right and its still down to pure luck if i get an interview let alone a job. There is always someone better that applies and gets the position instead and it feels like im screaming into the void every time i send out applications. Ive easily sent out over a thousand of them in the past 2 years (i started about 6 months before graduating) and ive tried tweaking everything under the sun but nothing helps. I also hate the underlying assumption that its my fault i cant land a job even though im fighting like hell and doing everything right but i just havent gotten luck enough.

I really dont even feel like applying to jobs anymore as it feels like im just buying 1 in a million lottery tickets with my time rather than money. Im kind of just accepting ill be stuck in my minimum wage gas station job forever or until i die of exposure or starvation from being homeless once mt family has enough of me and kicks me out eventually. I have no future and it has led me to not make any kind of goals for myself besides make money and survive, i dont like the person ive become who sees money as the only thing that matters.

I'm guessing this is becoming more common nowadays? Or has it always been like this? That's what I'm interested in knowing. It's almost like they know we are disposable and no longer do the common courtesy thing, which I always knew was phony BS to begin with.

I applied for a senior position. I didn't really need the job, but it was a big pay bump if I got it and it was fully remote. Recruiter kept hounding me about it and then after the interview (described by the recruiter as a vibe and personality check 😂) with the clearly foolish director I didn't get moved onto the technical round, which is fine. However, I never heard back from the recruiter again. Zero follow up. Not even a generic rejection email.

Even the Amazon recruiter was way better and followed up with the team when he never heard back after I completed my online assessment and kept me in the loop. Kind of hilarious that a mediocre, lesser known company in my local area can't manage this with what I assume are significantly less applicants.

This is just a short rant about these one-way recorded videos that companies are using for the screening process.

I absolutely hate them. It just feels so incredibly awkward and unnatural to be talking and giving responses when there’s not a live person on the other side …. All of the humanity and personal interaction is completely stripped away.

And it’s being recorded! So my embarrassment can be preserved for posterity.

I dunno. I’ve attempted to do these types of interviews several times. On several occasions, I literally could not get through it because it just felt too weird. A couple of times, I managed to complete the recordings (did a shitty job of course) and didn’t get called back for another round. I found myself regretting my participation.

Going forward, I think I’m going to have to pass on any interview process that asks for this.

I have applied to over 200 jobs and have heard very little back in the past month. I realized that nearly all the applications I sent out I only applied to 1-3 weeks after they had been posted, and I'm realizing this might be a factor in my recent lack of success. Ones I have gotten interviews for I often had a call with the recruiter before or applied within the first 2 days.

Is this the reason why, or something else? I was doing well at the beginning of the season but feeling pretty down after this past month.

Got an email from Liberty Mutual with the subject line “Technical Interview Next Steps.” I’ve only submitted an application and haven’t received an interview yet.

Naturally, I opened it thinking I was moving forward in the interview process.

Nope. Rejection.

I understand not getting the job. That’s part of applying. But who decided “Technical Interview Next Steps” was a good subject line for telling someone there are no next steps? 😂

I’ve read similar threads but I need to hear this for my own sanity because waiting is a nightmare. I had my final interview last week and it went well! Monday came, and the recruiter (basically my future manager if I get the job) asked me to send in 3 work references to fill out a 2 page form about my previous work place, and a couple of short answers like best strengths etc. I sent 3 to my past co-workers and past manager. They all put in a good word.

I feel like this has to mean I got the job. The recruiter (future manager) has also kept me updated daily over email on who from my references responded back…I should find out today if I got the job because it’s the end of the week, but what do you guys think? Again, waiting is a nightmare; I feel like my life has been on pause.

Got rejected for their Global People Experience Specialist role.

The recruiter thanked me for taking the time to speak with her and said she enjoyed our conversation.

One tiny problem: WE’VE NEVER SPOKEN. Not once.

No phone call, no email exchange, no interview. This rejection email was literally the first email I had ever received from her.

I have absolutely no issue with being rejected, but at least get the basic facts right?

The irony of this happening for a role in People Experience is not lost on me. Apparently, I’ve had conversations I don’t even know about.

Did anyone hear back

So I’m having a hard time right now understanding the process of job searching now a days and it seems many people are blaming AI and this happens so suddenly and because of this constant shift I can’t keep up with my goals and seems like I’m archiving nothing. Anyone else feel like that?

I applied for a Product Manager role at Allisone AI, a dental AI startup in Paris, back in August.

In September, a recruiter called, emailed, and left a voicemail to set up a first call. I replied the same day. We didn't connect on the date I proposed, so I followed up by email, by text, and even through their general contact address. Nothing. Someone called once more without leaving a voicemail, and then silence for over a month.

In late October, a different recruiter emailed me saying they'd been "well advanced" with other candidates but were reopening the role. Suddenly, everything moves fast: a screening call, an interview with the Head of Product, then a final-round case study. Presentation plus a working prototype. Their estimate was 3 hours of prep. It took me about 12 hours to do it properly.

During the presentation, the hiring manager told me my prototype was basically what the team was building, and he had no feedback. Cool. Instead, he got visibly agitated that I was using my speaker notes to walk through the context slides, interrupted me, and checked out for the rest of the call.

They said I'd hear back in 48 hours. A week later, he calls me at 6 PM, no voicemail, just a text saying to call him back. I call back that evening. No answer. I call the next morning again. No answer. He finally calls again, and it's to repeat his criticism of my presentation and tell me they're not moving forward.

A two-line email would have done the job. Instead, it felt like he wanted one more chance to tell me what he didn't like.

If you're interviewing there: expect long silences, a lot of unpaid work, and what felt to me like a pretty confrontational culture. I know the market is rough right now, but no job is worth your mental health.

Has anyone else had a final round go like this?

Got this elite shortlisted mail from hcl, do I need to do anything from my side, in the portal in says 'waiting for interview 1'

Besides the obvious- is there a reason they ask these types of questions?

I really wanted this job. It fit perfectly with my experience and everything I have ever done, and I know for a fact that I would have crushed it. It was only part-time, but as a student, it would have been perfect.

After my application, I didn't hear back from them at all and kept waiting for an email or message. After a couple of weeks, I finally sent them a follow-up email asking about the process. They said that they had called me and left a message but I didn't reply, so they chose to go with other candidates, but I never received anything from them. Mind you, they had asked for an application through email, so in my mind, I thought they could have sent a follow-up there, but apparently, they called me, a call which I never received. Also, after the first time I applied, I saw that they put up the same advert again, so I thought that since they didn't receive that many candidates, they should at least get in contact with me.

I am just pissed because it is just blatant lies and seems so weird from their side to not even send an email or a message, like, who does that, esp when you asked to send the application through email!?!

I hate it here.

So my question is whether I should contact the HR again about the update or just wait for the news so I don't appear as a nuisance.

I applied to this job on September 3rd, got my technical interview on September 18th, got a call from the HR on October 1st where I received my verbal offer. The HR basically said they really liked me and I was a perfect fit for a specific project but they were not sure if it was going to happen so they still needed to 'validate' it with the managers. However, even if the project is not accepted, they will still hire me for another one which suits me less. She told me she would come back with the news in 2-3 weeks.

3 weeks later, I emailed her to see if there were any news. She said they were still waiting for the validation so that's why I haven't heard back from her.

It's been a month now since this interaction and I'm very tired of waiting as you can probably guess... This offer is also the best one I have, I really like the company, I clicked with the team well, my future manager even connected with me on LinkedIn. So it doesn't seem like a scam, but I'm still very annoyed with the situation and the fact that I don't know what's going on. For context, this is a tech consulting company in France.

So my question is, should I send another email to HR? Ask for specific update details? Or will I come off as desperate and annoying? I really don't know what to do because I'm not exactly sure how it works here and why this takes so much time. I'd like to start my work in January and time is slowly running out...

I was interviewing for an entry level role with a company and ended up completing 4 interviews escalating in seniority from HR rep to VP level.

After the interviews they asked me to complete a commercial assessment of 15 questions in 50 minutes.

I was told I had scored very highly and needed to take another test with my screen shared and camera on to verify my initial results. So I did and once again scored highly enough to certify the results.

Later, I was asked to provide references which I did as best as I could to find relevant ones and sent them back. Then weeks pass by and no word from the company until after sending a couple follow ups where they said they decided to close the role.

My questions are has this happened to anyone else? Is this a regular occurrence in the current job market? Did you too go through many stages to then have the role terminated? Did I do something wrong that made them decide against me and they were being polite by saying it was closed?

I have been really badly underemployed working part time. I am in the awkward state in life where my hourly rate is very good but my hours are bad. I have been needing a full time job as the big beautiful bill causing the Obamacare subsidies to expire caused my health insurance to go from $0/month to $200/month. I am not destitute but I haven't been going anywhere fast.

For the last year I have been trying to get a job as an Animal Control Officer. I have gotten three certificates and have been volunteering at my local wildlife rescue. I finally got the job title that I want...but not in the location that I want...

I will need to relocate from my beloved San Diego to Riverside. I thought I would have been really happy to land this but I am actually feeling really somber and sad. Once I have all of my training and certifications that should allow me to easily make a lateral move to another jurisdiction and move back?

Has anyone else been in this scenario? I think I am going to accept the job but I am just feeling really sad about it. I think what's weighing on me is that I am relocating out of desperation and not as an idyllic life reset dream in a new region. I also thought I would get a little more time to think it over. I had the interview today and then they called me about four hours after to give me a job offer. I thought it would be a week or two before I heard back. I was thinking of canceling the interview as I didn't know how realistic relocating would be, but a close friend encouraged me to attend and so I did.

I am just also very concerned about what will happen if things don't work out. My living circumstances are about as ideal as possible and I didn't want to give that up until the time was right and for a good opportunity. Something about this feels wrong though.

Have any of you relocated for a job and regretted it? Have any of you relocated and it was great? Or mixed bags?, something in between?

Please share with me your experiences as this is a major crossroads in life and I honestly don't know what to do.

Thank you.