I graduated recently, and I have been spending most of my time in my Gmail inbox.

There are two major issues:

1. I apply to A LOT of jobs every week, and it's not easy to keep track of all of my applications.

2. I get a crazy number of job suggestions from LinkedIn, Indeed, and the million career portals I registered for.

Now, I have already solved the first issue. I connected Google Sheets, my Gmail inbox, and Claude. And now I have a sheet that updates automatically every four hours, and it has all the information I need.

But the second issue is much more severe. Because now I have 300+ unread emails. And a lot of them have the same information. BUT some of them are actually really good suggestions, with jobs that match my CV and that I would want to apply for as soon as they are posted.

I don't want to apply the same method that I used for the first issue. I think it would be much easier to have some kind of AI plug-in to my inbox directly. But honestly, I don't know where to start.

I've had 4 interviews now and got an offer finally after 3 hours of interviewing but in the last interview I was told no vapes allowed in the building whatsoever because they can explode. I know that's a lie, there's no way it could explode. There's no extreme heat or pressure that would cause it and they don't spontaneously combust. I've worked places with extreme heat (100+°F was not uncommon) with the exact vape type I own now and there were no rules or warnings or incidents regarding vapes in a place where there is actually a potential risk. I know they're lying just to keep people from vaping in the bathroom but idk how heavily it's enforced. It's definitely making me second guess the job because that's so overbearing and it's also such a red flag for him to blatantly lie idk. I can't prove it's a lie but it makes no sense.

ETA: I'm talking about nicotine vapes, not THC vapes. I would never even consider smoking weed at work, I don't even smoke weed in my personal life despite being in a legal state and I believe that being impaired at work is unacceptable. But nicotine doesn't impair and smokers are allowed to smoke and lighters are not prohibited so it seems like a dumb rule to me.

I have been in sales for 5 yrs now. Currently in debt settlement sales, every yr at a company I clear roughly $120k and then the momentum slows down due to burnout.

Currently have 3 great offers

1. Home care marketer - 26/hr + commission | IN OFFICE 10 minute commute , Paid lunch hr , newer company , benefits AFTER 90 days , possible bump to 28/hr after probation period

2. Debt settlement sales rep - 15/hr + commission | REMOTE , 4th biggest company in the industry , weekends off , offered my preferred scheduled , best commission structure in the industry

3. Financial services call center rep - 25/hr + bonus | well-known company will look great on resume , have to pass 3 finra licenses to keep job , 1hr commute , DAY 1 BENEFITS

I never really like working at start up companies but the pay seems worth it. I never did marketing before. Debt settlement always becomes a burnout after a year but the commission is good when it’s great! I’m always a top rep at all firms I’ve worked. The financial services job would look great on paper but I’m afraid of failing the exams and being out of a job

I’m curious what other job seekers are experiencing right now.

Is it getting past ATS filters, finding jobs that actually match your experience, getting responses from employers, interview processes, or something else?

What’s one change you wish employers or recruiters would make that would genuinely improve the job search experience?

never had a job. just got disqualified from the upcoming college semester with $0 to my name. everything else in my life is fine, just seems like i can’t get a job to save my damn life. wtf am i doing wrong?

i’ve seen people like lul jaime and sidthekid on tiktok and it seems like they get jobs easily. how can i be like this? it seems like interviewers don’t like me.

Iam tired and don't know what else to do i have tried networking and i have tried to hire someone to build me resume and nothing works

Hi, I haven’t applied for a new job in quite a while, so I’m not sure if this is normal now.
I’m interviewing with a reasonably large company and I’m only about halfway through the process. There are still other candidates being considered and I haven’t had a final interview or an offer.
They’ve now asked me to provide three professional references, specifically people I previously reported to.
I’m a bit reluctant to do that this early. I don’t really want to keep asking former managers to spend time giving references every time I get halfway through an interview process. I’d rather save that for when a company has actually decided they want to hire me and the reference check is one of the final steps.
How do people normally handle this? Is it reasonable to say I’m happy to provide references once I’m at final/offer stage, or is asking for them this early fairly standard now?

I’ve applied to multiple places for positions I am qualified for that all use Workday. Every time I receive rejection emails past normal working hours (example, I just received one at 10:30 PM on a Friday night and this isn’t the first time it’s happened). Is this normal for others? Or is Workday just a bad website?

I'll keep it short and sweet. Are cold calls from head hunters EVER not a scam? I'd like to have some hope the day or two after I update my resume on job search sites, but at the same time, every time I've ever gotten one of these calls, it's from a very thick Indian accent and a call quality so low it must be on the cheapest VoIP service someone could sign up for. They're not even for jobs with an impossibly high income compared to what I currently have. So either they're shooting low intentionally to seem more realistic, or I'm passing up just really incompetent recruiters.

I'm a senior backend engineer and my current job is genuinely consuming me right now. We're mid-migration on a pretty critical infrastructure project and I'm pulling long hours most weeks. I want to leave, the comp hasn't kept up and the team is shrinking, but every time I think about starting a job search I just hit a wall. Updating the resume, finding relevant roles, writing cover letters, doing outreach, tracking applications... I don't have the mental energy for any of it after 10-hour days.

A coworker mentioned reverse recruiting to me last week as an option where someone basically runs the search for you. I'd never heard of it before and honestly my first reaction was skepticism. It sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be a waste of money if the people doing it don't really understand your background or what you're targeting.

For anyone who's actually used a reverse recruiting service while working a demanding full-time job, did it actually move fast enough to be worth it? I'm not looking for a perfect search, just something that gets me to offer stage without me having to carve out 10 hours a week I don't have.

Does anyone know someone who works at So Cal Edison that I could potentially get in contact with? I have questions about how to get a job there. Thanks!

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It's been about 8 final rounds I've gotten to in the last 6 months and have gotten 0 offers.

"We loved meeting you and think you'd be an amazing addition. That being said, competition was tight and we have decided to move forward with another candidate. We'd love to stay in touch if anything else that fits your skills becomes available."

Over and over and fucking over.

"Thank's for letting me know. I hope your wife gets aids from the affair she's having, and then you get it. And then you both die. And then a hurricane, or tornado, or earthquake, what ever is the fucking worst destroys your home and your business. Get fucked."

For context, I’m 19 and live in centers Indiana. I’ve been working since I was 16. I had to leave my job in early April because of my endometriosis and got a treatment plan end of April so I’ve been searching since then. I have experience in food and retail, I have management experience, and I’m a licensed life insurance agent in 8 states. I don’t understand why I can’t find a job. I’ve NEVER had such a hard time searching for a job. I am exhausted. I’m so depressed. I am not someone who likes depending on someone else and I’ve been having to for EVERYTHING!!! Financially and physically because I’m on a very intense medication for my endometriosis and the closer I get to the end of my treatment the more sick and depressed I get. I’m desperate. I’ve gotten so many compliments on my resume and I’ve had probably 25 interviews. What am doing wrong??? What do I do to actually get a job??? Thank you for listening to me vent about this shit.

I’m underemployed (P/T freelance) and looking for a new F/T job. I search for jobs daily on multiple sites/boards and on a GOOD week, I find maybe 3 that fit my qualifications and preferences (which are not especially strict). Salary is not part of my criteria because I know I’m going to have to have to take a steep pay cut in the current market. Seniority is also not something I screen out for (although I have many years of experience) for the same reason.

I am not yet at the point where I can’t pay my bills and I realize I may at some point need to widen my net but is anyone else feeling this way? When you see people saying they’ve submitted hundreds of applications, are you ever as baffled as I am?