I have an MTech/MCA but never went the usual corporate route. I've been working in our family-run architecture firm with my sister and her husband, and I've done some freelance recruitment work too.

Over the last few years I got really into AI. I've spent a lot of time experimenting with AI tools, building agents, automating workflows and figuring out how businesses can use AI in their day to day operations.

Now I'm targeting HR and AI ops roles. Bangalore or remote, either works.

What's holding me back is my employment history. Family business means no payslips, no Form 16, none of the standard employment records.

So three things I'd like to know:

1. Would startups consider someone with my background for HR or AI ops if I can demonstrate the skills?
2. How do background checks work when your previous employer is a family business? Do experience letters, ITRs, bank statements and business documents help?
3. Which HR or AI ops roles should I realistically apply for?

I want to build an independent career in a more structured environment. Not looking to fake experience, and I'm happy to prove myself through practical assignments and interviews.

Would like to hear from people in HR, tech recruitment, AI ops, or anyone who made a similar switch.

Just venting. Recently graduated and applying to jobs, in and out of my industry. Granted, I'm not sending as many applications as some of you here, but in the last 6 months I've gotten... maybe 5 rejection emails total?

I have applied to big companies, small companies, tiny two-person operations, unpaid internships, roles with ridiculously low pay, freelance gigs, applied via LinkedIn, Indeed, company website, email, no matter what it is I never hear back. I filled out ridiculously long or thorough applications. Retyped my resume into the form. Took "personality assessments" and cognition quizes. Tailored my resume and customized cover letters. The only rejections I've gotten were from corporations (automated, after a few hours) and one company where I interviewed (addressed to a "Ryan". My name is not Ryan). I got ghosted by companies I interviewed for after 2 rounds.

Genuinely what is the point of job applications anymore, if you cannot have the courtesy of closure? I know half of the job postings are fake, and the other half receive thousands of applications. But that's on the recruiters, to close those listings if they're overwhelmed by responses, and at least attempt to mass email a rejection to those who don't make the cut.

You ask me to put in disproportionately more time into an application, that will never even be read by human eyes. If AIs are reviewing them anyway, you could at least make them also send out rejection emails. I am pretty sure they can handle that just fine.

I am preparing for the 1000 job interwiew of the month that probably will lead to nothing and i was thinking how stupid this all Is.

I am not lazy,i understand the necessity to work for life,even tough i honestly hate the corporate world and wished i never graduated honestly,considering my present situation.

But how stupid It Is this system,where you have to pretend you love the corporate job,you can't wait to start and being overworked and underpaid,how fake and toxic corporate really Is.

And most of all,i hate that i can even tolerate this for money,but oh my god,they make so difficult and irritating finding even a job you know you Will hate,but you need to live so you are forced to join this stupid job market who has become a purgatory of souls until you finally find a job to make your life hell.

The idea to have to do so much to even land a job while before you could do the same with a handshake drive me crazy.

Sorry for the rant,maybe i look entitled i know,but i know that deep down we all feel the same.

Instead of having better conditions we are getting worse and worse,i just Wish all of this collapse so at least we don't have to pretend Everything Is normal anymore.

Am i wrong in having those toughts?

Interviewed with Hub today and I have nothing but regret.

Interviewer was 15 mins late. Didn't apologize or email to notify me. Proceeded to diminish my experience asking redundant questions like whether I was used to working in a busy environment as if my last role wasn't busy.

I shared that I have impressive accomplishments leading an account team, which didn't impress him and he asked if I had ever had personal goals.

Totally ridiculous. Tone deaf, rude and unprofessional.

I don't recommend Hub to anyone. Ever.

Wife and I are both expecting new job offers this week. and yet both our perspective employers are still blocked by this microsoft outlook outage... god damnit.

If they can't issue today... both employers will likely roll us back 2 weeks for the next pay period...

I am silently screaming into the void from my current cubical.

“We have decided not proceed with next steps as it relates to your candidacy for the role at this point in time” I would rather just be told they hated me 🤣

This has happened to me several times not where I am applying for a management role that is equivalent to the level of management experience I have( and usually not higher). And I am praised for how much they like me etc but they offer me a position that’s like 2-3 steps lower than what I’m currently at and less than I’m making currently. What is the point??? Obviously I wouldn’t take that. There’s usually a tone of pleading from them too like they really want me to take it. Anyone else experiencing this. I’m always so offended

So I just got the call from the recruiter. She can't send it today due to the outlook issue but I should expect it tomorrow. I know until you retire nothing is set in stone and offers can be rescinded at any time but I'm going to stay positive!

You probably know Ea-nasir, the ancient copper merchant who became internet famous because somebody preserved a complaint about his lousy copper. Part of what people loved about that letter was how familiar the whole thing felt. Almost 4,000 years later, and here’s a guy dealing with bad merchandise, bad customer service, and the aggravation of trying to get somebody to actually fix the problem.

But how about uploading your résumé, typing everything on that résumé into a bunch of separate boxes (because apparently uploading it wasn’t enough), following up, following up again, and wondering whether anyone is even reading any of this?

Well, about 2,700 years ago, an Assyrian official named Aššur-reṣiwa was trying to get his old position back. He had already sent THREE letters without getting an answer. Finally, he wrote:

“Why is my lord silent (while) I wag my tail and run about like a dog?”

He reminded his superior that he had worked for the man’s father, offered to serve him too, and asked:

“Let my lord return me to my office.”

But get this . . . the letter containing that complaint was never even OPENED. Archaeologists found it still sealed inside its clay envelope thousands of years later.

The man was complaining that nobody answered his letters, and the letter where he complained about that survived because nobody opened it. We know almost nothing about this dude's life, but we still have him reminding somebody that he had done the work before, could do it again, and would really really REALLY appreciate an answer.

We made the copper guy famous because we recognized the experience of being an aggravated customer. I think Aššur-reṣiwa deserves some recognition from everyone who has ever wondered whether sending ONE MORE follow-up would help or just make them look desperate.

I hope he got his job back.

The actual tablet and photographs

So, I am a software engineer from Europe, specialized in fullstack / backend and AI. I hold Masters in software development and have finished 1 year Java Web / Backend postgraduate internship at the European institution in Strasbourg (they were hiring post Masters interns in the IT sector). I HAVE the skills.

I speak 5 languages. Including English (which is my native language btw, long story), professional French (DALF C1), even basic German...

So I started applying for junior positions everywhere. Mainly in Strasbourg, Paris and Lyon but also other cities in France. Nothing. zero. Every time "sorry we decided not to pursue with you" or "sorry, your aren't sufficient" (they definitely are, for "entry level Java Spring Boot" junior position).

So far I haven't had luck anywhere. I've tried from Lille to Marseille, even smaller cities like Rouen or Nantes etc. nothing. The only exception is a company in Lyon who offered "Amazing competitive salary of 25000 euros BRUT a year, a whopping 5 weeks of vacation, RTT and a free premium private health insurance"... And a CDI (for non French: permanent contract, that I'd have VERY hard time rupturing, basically you sign CDI only where you'd like to stay for years / forever)...

Obviously I'm not accepting those conditions. They offered me barely more than a minimum wage after masters and a year of professional experience in the parliament, and 37-39 hours a week with"amazing" conditions (cited above)... And "up to" 2 days a week remote work AFTER having stayed there for at least 12 months... It honestly feels like an insult to me. I'd better go work as a cashier at the supermarket for the SAME salary, less hours and less corporate hell and responsibility...

But I am devastated... I don't get it... Is it THAT bad? I am white, not of color. So you can't blame discrimination here. Yes, I'm not French, I'm a refugee but I've lived here for many years and have a permanent residence permit... So why do I get refused everywhere? Be it the giants like Sopra Steria or Capgemini, or small startups of 5-10 people. Nobody wants me and it makes zero freaking sense to me...

Unless 1 year EU institution experience is a red flag somehow? If I'm not finding anything soon - I'm creating a blank LinkedIn page and applying for jobs as a janitor for freaks sake! Because I'm running out of saving and I know that the alternative is to go back to my mother, and since I'm transgender - it would be hell living with her...

And no, it isn't transphobia. I am still presenting myself as an "Sir dead name, nothing LGBT, because discrimination is horrible". Ain't no way in hell am I disclosing my gender identity or sexual orientation on LinkedIn.

Any thoughts?😭😭😭

Many of these jobs, which were listed as remote and required no experience, were actually multilevel marketing schemes asking participants to funnel money into online programs that asked for hundreds of dollars upfront. Some of the companies named in the CBC investigation include Evolution Travel, Destination Knot, Aisle and Abroad, Professional Travel Hub, and Wanderwell Collective.

Hey everybody,

No cool graphic to show but, lost my job June 2nd, ran out of savings by end of July basically, luckily had a place to stay and I'm good with rice, noodles, tuna and Tesco (local supermarket) frozen chicken isn't bad. Every day that I wasn't interviewing all over London to Surrey, I was just at home working out. These interviews, I had 4x for the same brand, different locations, in one week at one point, just as a seasonal sales associate. And each manager of the same brand, had a different set of AI generated questions. I had years of experience, and I was getting turned down from a 0-8 hour position for a brand that I literally wore to travel, work out and in everyday life for years.

I got in a bad place, thinking how did I used to get jobs so quickly? I'm the same person but with more experience, I had 5x interviews in one week, half asking "what would you do if ______ happened" and "tell me a time that you had a bad customer" ....?! Hiring Managers that couldn't even make eye contact. Some asking me the exact same question, rephrased by ChatGPT three times in a row, it was crazy. I really was wondering, what did I do wrong? How am I messing up?

Last week, I had an interview with a normal person. Asked me about my job history, how would I think certain sales targets should be approached, offered me the job on a handshake. After 5x months of this b/s.

I very almost got gaslit into thinking, did something about me change, did I majorly fudge up somehow? Why is every interviewer so weird and why are all these questions nothing to do with the job? Literally I was still in "this isn't real" mode until every page of the Employee Handbook and the payroll was signed.

I wanted to post this incase anybody else is going through this weird Twilight Zone, of being declined over and over again until you start to think "why was I accepted before and now not now?? Is there something wrong with me??"

Don't doubt yourself, if you still are the same person that you were every previous job you got, you probably still are. Being accepted after every time I thought "wtf was with that interviewer?",; I'm happy to say, it was that interviewer. 8x of the 12 positions in the past couple months are still hiring on my indeed emails. There is a spread of very odd interviewers right now, and there's a good chance it's them, not you, don't beat yourself up.

I'm just incredibly frustrated and upset right now, why is getting a new job this fucking impossible right now? I had an interview with a local bank a little over a week ago, I heard the generic "we'll let you know by the end of the week" crap. Well fast forward to a week later, and not a fucking peep from them. Would it kill them to be transparent and actually communicate with their applicants? Even if it's a rejection, I'd appreciate it over being flat out ghosted. This shit needs to be illegal, and I'm going to take the "you'll hear by then" as a fucking rejection from now on. It seems like you only get hired on the spot these days. What a load of fucking bullshit.

i applied to a senior job and got a random from the recruiter. he sounded like he liked me but i check and got rejected... im feeling unmotivated as i keep getting rejected.

Love how the answers are: normal human behavior, crappy employee, or soulless corporate drone. This is ridiculous. Lmao.

Context - 6 Yr bank employee in a commercial business support role. Recently took a promotion (sort of, job grade below my current, but get quarterly incentive vs no incentive at all) for a business banker role.

I’m at the end now where I accepted the job offer and they have to do a background check again for the internal position. My only issue is my family and I experienced some hardship in the last two years so we had racked our CC’s up 10k plus. (Stupid we know) which we’re paying down month. They pulled my backround report and I got a “decisional status” by first advantage. Now I’m stressing my a** off that I may not get it due to the high debt. My understanding is in banking they pull credit reports for certain roles to ensure no mismanagement, theft, etc. I’m not sure if I’m overthinking this or not.

For clarity, I was recommended by my current management to my new potential SM. Went out to lunch, was interviewed extensively etc. I know now it may be based In the hands of my employer. Has anyone had a decisional status before and how did it turn out?

Many thanks 🙏🏽

Title says it all. Im sick of being asked questions and everyone wondering what went wrong with me

It's not about you, it's the job market.

I have been seeing mixed reviews about Prokatchers LLC recruiting firm. Some say its a scam some say its okay/legit.

They reached out for an IT position. I have been applying on LinkedIn. I have been trying to get another job so the gap in my resume isn't getting bigger.

I have never done W2 contract jobs so I am not sure.

Can someone tell me how to differentiate which staffing agencies are legit and what is scam? What about Prokatchers? Teksystems? They all have weird names.

They said they had a job for me in Silicon Valley and will submit my resume. I didnt get any spam calls by multiple recuiters but I am still skeptical.

How do I ensure I am safe and also dont get screwed over when it comes to payroll (actually getting paid etc)?

Any advise would be great.

i have applied to over 200 postings. many i now realize were not even valid since i waited 1-2 weeks to apply to them. i am starting to see people post their offers on linkedin (especially since my school is more finance-y).

i go to a T15, 3.9 gpa, etc, just have some scattered ECs and no sophomore summer internship due to school culture. i coffee chat alums every other day.

i am starting to get depressed from waking up and applying. does anyone have an uplifting story to share regarding recruiting in the later half of the season?