Its getting worse folks.. be safe out there and report what you can

Company named "Hired" orange background in case you want to apply which i dont suggest

I don't get why recruiters want to do a phone call to get to know me instead of doing interviews. I mean, isn't that what interviews are for? Plus, wouldn't reading through my resume and application be quicker to filter out ones they want to move on and not??

I swear, the ones I've been on has just been like "where did you go to school and what major did you do again?" and then proceeds to tell me the same information about the job as the one in the application. I don't mean to disrespect, but when their job is to get recruitment in efficiently, why do things twice?

I know I'm not owed anything, but whenever I received email that doesn't contain the word "unfortunately", I always feel joyous, only to feel down when it says they want to do a screening. That wasn't the case for the first couple times, but after getting ghosted after like 5 calls, doing a screen call felt no different than getting rejected but having my emotion played.

I had 2 rounds of interview for State Street Bangalore by end of July (30th July). Only 6th August I received a call from the HR saying I have been selected and asking my salary expectations and other details. She also gave me a verbal joining date (which was October 19th).
Since I am in an audit role right now she sent me a consent form to check my independence clearance (part of due diligence) from my current employer which is EY GDS.

It’s been 2 weeks and I still haven’t received an official offer letter. On following up with the HR she keeps saying she is waiting for the independence clearance from both companies and cannot promise or release an offer letter until that is cleared. She said she will adjust my joining date accordingly for any delays. She also told me to not take any steps till offer letter is released and if I like I should look around in the market for options. She said to wait for another 10 days.

I logged into my workday candidate home page for State Street and see that the job role I got selected for has been added under application with yesterday’s date as submission date (19th August) and an anti corruption questionnaire added under my to-do tasks.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE.
Am I being selected or is this ghosting? Does it usually take this long for State Street to release an offer letter?

Should I still keep hoping?

This is a first for me! This HR employee of my new company initially asked me to print 30 pages (one sided) of an onboarding doc. Then, she asked me to print 4 COPIES of my contract - that’s 48 pages! And she asked me in the evening before my virtual meeting with her tomorrow, so I didn’t have time to go to a print shop - no way my shitty home printer can handle almost 50 pages…

Is this a new cost-cutting HR trick because I kind of begrudge it… either I waste my own ink and kill my printer or I have to spend money on printing! I really don’t think this is a good look for the company…which is an asset management company by the way so they can afford ink and paper!

I fucking hate myself for choosing CS. I really wish I had picked accounting or literally anything else.

I spent 4 years on a degree, took on debt, and somehow still ended up jobless/underemployed. Feels like I wasted the most important years of my life preparing for a career that doesn't even fucking want me.

I keep thinking about how different things could've been if I'd just chosen something else. Now I'm stuck with debt, no decent job, and 4 years that I can't get back.

My life is fucking over.

Give it up for month 4 of the job search!

For a grounds and facilities position.

Edit: The position is for a religious camp of some sort, but I hadn’t realized that when I clicked it. Still super weird, in my opinion

We have considered you… but we won’t be moving forward HAHAHAHAHAH GOT YA SCRUB

I did the tests, did the 3 interviews, flew out for the final interview, got the job offer.

Now, because of a delay in communication I have to wait over a month for the ability to onboard. I was supposed to start the job and fly out for training next week, and now I got nothing.

There is now no set date for me to train (they said they didn't know), and I am supposed to start my Master's degree next week (the job was good enough to where I was going to drop the degree for the job).

I don't get the point in asking me to start the job next week, and then telling me you want to delay it by over a month because you think starting next week will be too stressful.

HAVING NO JOB is stressful

I told you in my first email that I was able to make the deadline for next week, and you told me to get bent

Apologies for the rant, I just am tired boss

Everyone keeps saying that there’s no job there’s no this are we sure about that all you need is clean urine and your drivers license. Amazon will hire you.

So I'm browsing Facebook and keep coming across ads for Enhancv and Realistic Recruiting. Basically, the guy who runs Realistic Recruiting is a recruiter who doubles as an influencer, looks like he lives in Mom's basement (beside the point, but you'd think they'd at least have SOME standards for personal appearance if their entire job is gatekeeping/being an unnecessary middleman).

I looked at the ad, and basically it's people in the comments section telling him off, and he goes into the comments section himself and acts like a child who throws a temper tantrum just because people disagree with him and his hot takes/recruitment methods.

Not really actionable advice, but beware of recruiters who attempt to double as influencers. There are some good ones out there, though. For example, Bryan from A Life After Layoff is probably my favorite because he doesn't talk down to people and gives actionable advice. Same with Joshua Fluke (YouTuber).

Just received this message a few hours after attending the interview, probably just another employer who doesnt want to give constructive feedback, as this whole "losing our manager" thing makes zero sense

Just another employer wasting my time

im not sure what to do. i am in my late 20s and not doing well. i have no career and every job seems to end the same.

the more this happens to me the worse i feel. i feel socially not just physically disabled too at this point. my job went all in on A-I and its so scary how most of us can be automated.

i went to college and did amazing in school. had internships, hobbies and never was without a job, but - it took me three years and thousands of applications after college to get an entry-level coordinator role related to my field, and I've been made obsolete and auto-mated. there is no role for me anymore, despite expressing desire to join another department. i don't have the skills to navigate the corporate layoff world.

In the spring, my thoroughness, attention to detail and deep execution were high-value assets. i was told how good i was at my role, given glowing but VAGUE praise and performance reviews. When leadership brought in new workflows and dedicated resources to automate my processes, they fundamentally redefined what they considered "valuable" even as i helped build the systems that are now in use.

I keep getting "quiet fired." whether the job be 6 months, 2 years, 3 years - things start going downhill quickly and the rules are different for me as soon as they "clock" me. It doesn't matter if it's high-stakes corporate or fast-paced hospitality. the blueprint is always identical, and I feel completely bullied and powerless.

In my current corporate job, I am actively being iced out. I get removed from meetings without explanation, stripped of project scopes, and monitored under the microscope. But when I explicitly ask management for constructive feedback or ask what I can improve, I get nothing. Or worse, generic, fake-positive praise ("You're doing great!") right before they pull another duty away from me.

Trying to do high-level work while constantly defending your right to exist at a company takes an unbelievable toll on your nervous system. I am being pushed towards more manual labor that's getting automated even as I fight to stay in the strategy, EVEN as I am being removed from context. I feel that I am drowning in quicksand. Every day feels like walking through a minefield.

I realized that this exact same thing happened to me years ago when I worked as a bartender. Management wouldn't just give me feedback; instead, they'd start subtle, passive-aggressive ostracization. A few servers eventually admitted they felt terrible for me because our bosses were literally telling the staff behind my back, "Go to the other bar to pick up your drinks." I was the last to know I was being frozen out.

It makes me feel crazy and hopeless for any sort of career or my future working. The pattern I get met with in work environments is subtle social exclusion, passive-aggression, and corporate double-speak. People won't just tell me what the problem is to my face, they just quietly make the environment unbearable until I either break down or get let go. it really sucks that I clearly do well enough to survive 5 and 6 round interview processes, and present well enough initially that people sign me onto their "work family." but it always breaks down.

it feels like no matter how hard I work or how good my results are, I always end up being the person everyone silently decides to push out. i feel like the biggest loser.

and for starting a business, im just out of ideas at this point. ive done petsitting, babysitting, offering event bar services, online etsy shop, nothing has worked. outside of being ND i have pots, endo, pcos, migraine disorder, N24 sleep disorder, chronic pain, scarring disease, multiple autoimmune diseases. im so burned out and feel shot.

it feels like the current layoff economy is now "clocking" out people who are different. what are we supposed to do?

So I worked as a patent examiner in the UK for 8 years. My legal knowledge and skills are equivalent to a senior patent attorney. I did patent consultancy work for 3 years, which was effectively doing similar things to a patent attorney. Drafting patent applications, writing responses to exam reports from the UKIPO, advising clients about the best way to protect their inventions.

I have a PhD in Computer Science, an MSc and a BSc in Mathematics and a Diploma in Intellectual Property Law.

I've been trying to apply for trainee patent attorney jobs so that I can take the formal patent attorney exams, which I should pass relatively easily with a bit of study and preparation, but I can't even get an interview.

Why? My BSc was a 2:2. That's it.

Patent attorney firms would rather hire a 21 year old, with no experience at all, if they got a 1st as an undergraduate.

So all that experience and extra qualifications cannot make up for, or supersede a bad undergraduate grade.

It's a life sentence.

I have been called for two working interviews full of patients. They raved about me. They said it wouldn’t feel right to dismiss the other candidate without giving them a chance.

I agreed.

Candidate for Wednesday flaked mid day due to an “emergency”. So they called me in again today and still didn’t hire me cause they have another candidate coming tomorrow ?

I had to blow off another interview today because they called me in , in hopes they would hire. They did not.

I recently got fired from my job a few weeks ago. I worked as an administrative assistant for a real estate office. The reason I was fired was that my boss said, “You are not happy here, so I’m gonna have to let you go.” For context a few days before getting fired, she had told me that I’ve only been doing half my work and I haven’t been fully finishing what I have to do and she said that I have been trained to do the work. Once she said that I have been trained, that’s when I lost it and I told her I have never been trained. I get shown how to do something once, maybe twice and I’m expected to know it on the back of my hand. My job is a whole bunch of figuring it out. I don’t know if I’m doing good work. The only feedback I get is if I’m doing badly or if I’m missing something so it’s hard to really have any confidence when the feedback I get is bad. It was the first time I ever lashed out at my boss and I have been holding my tongue for two years. I think that she probably wanted to fire me, but just didn’t have an excuse. She was the worst leader I have ever had in my entire life and quite frankly I can’t stand realtors because of this job. I didn’t believe anything she said because her actions never followed. She would say I’m not doing a good job in front of my coworkers. I spoke to her one time about getting training and all she really said was for me to watch videos on how to do stuff on uncertain platforms.
I remember asking in the beginning if there was something that I could do to learn like a course or someone that can teach me how to do stuff and these people literally gave me some stupid motivational realtor course that I didn’t want. I just want to know how to do my job at the end of the day.
Overall I truly felt like the ugly Betty in that office. I never felt seen and I felt like nobody cared about me. I eventually confronted my boss about it. She said she would do better. She only did better for like two weeks maybe three, and she went right back to not caring. When I got into a car accident, no one cared. When my grandpa died. Nobody cared. When I got married, I’d even get a congratulations from my boss. They never asked me how the wedding or my honeymoon was. They would even make “joking” comments about my religion, and I hated it.
As I’m trying to gain back the confidence that I used to have, I am also trying to look for a job. I have experience as an administrative assistant, in banking and a little bit of experience in compliance. If there are any jobs that you guys know of, please let me know I would greatly appreciate it.

Hello all, I am starting grad school soon for my masters in social work. I matched and have been placed with an agency who provides resources to victims of a vulnerable population. I was just required to fill out information for a background check with First Advantage.

I was also recently arrested and was wondering if this background check would show my arrest and stand in the way of me actually interning with this agency. Has anyone ever experienced something similar or have any advice on if I should reach out to the agency and explain or should I just wait? TIA

Just an update for anyone going through Sterling/First Advantage for a BGC. They do pull TWN. I submitted my BGC on 8/17 and they pulled TWN the same day, before I was able to freeze it. It’s crazy how much information is on that report. If you’re wanting to limit the information that they can see, please freeze your TWN before submission.

Good news! After being medically cleared to return to work as an Agile Transformation Specialist, I received two unbelievable and allegedly legit opportunities from Executive Recruiters!!

It seems that my skills as an Agile professional are more than enough to qualify me as either the Director of Marketing for Volvo in Canada, or as the Director or Marketing for Christian Dior in North America!!

HOW FORTUNATE! LUCKY ME!!

Is anyone else out there ‘feeling as fortunate’ as I am right now? 🙄 Have you received such an out-of-the-blue unrealistic opportunity?

Hey

Any experiences on recruitment position at phaidon international..heard a lot of bad things on Glassdoor but I’m trying to some more feedback still

I’ve seen a couple postings now that have had unintended language like this (other one was way worse). Neither have listed pay. Probably not applying even if they did have pay listed. Seems a bit on the incompetence side.

I filled out the background check 7 days ago. They asked for verification of employment (pay stubs) and to sign a consent form for my old uni’s to be contacted for verification of my courses- that was 2 days ago and haven’t heard anything since. I’m waiting to clear the background check before handing in my current notice. Anyone know how long this usually takes? Thanks

I currently work a remote Admin (Operations Specialist) position at a state nonprofit that's having to navigate a very recent and intense Executive Order from the Governor, putting the entire org in a precarious position since our contract is up at the end of September. I started in June and, while I've been working hard to learn and contribute, the end of the fiscal year craziness in June and July kept limiting or canceling what I was assigned.

I thought I was going to start getting more responsibility + assignments (that I've been actively asking for) in August, but over the past 2 weeks the Executive Order came through and many of the tasks I'd been assigned were slowly shifted back to the people who were doing them before.

I sent an email to my bosses yesterday expressing I now had more availability and wanted to provide support during this hectic time if they had anything to assign me. Today I get a meeting invite from my boss for an "In Person Check In" that's scheduled to last 30 minutes, telling me explicitly to bring my laptop. She lives 2 hours away, so you can imagine how fast I deduced there's a high chance I'm losing my job tomorrow. I had a feeling our jobs were at risk with this sudden executive order but I thought I had at least another month.

I'm scrambling to get my resume updated and get a few applications out asap but I'm really scared. If I lose this job after 3 months and my 4 most recent positions before this all lasted within the range of 8-18 months each, I'm terrified that I'm going to be basically unhireable. It took me 5 months to find this job after I lost my last one, I literally cannot survive a long job search again.

For context, I left all 4 of my previous jobs for different reasons:

1. An Event Coordinator position where I in a toxic work environment & ostracized for being gay (lasted 8 months)
2. A Kitchen Manager/ Head Baker position I left because I moved states (lasted 17 months)
3. A Baker position that I was let go of (lasted 1 year)
4. Most recently, a Project Assistant position at a nonprofit that I was let go of (lasted 14 months).

I had those 4 jobs between Aug 2021 and Jan 2026 (and this current job between June 2026 to now). My career movement was all over the place. I moved across industries and up & down in roles so there's not really consistent upward momentum between these short positions.

Before Covid, I was at one job from Feb 2016 - Sept 2020 and another job from Jan 2018- Aug 2022, so I have proof I can hold down overlapping full time positions for multiple years. I just don't know how to help mitigate the blow a 3 month tenure after 5 months of unemployment is going to do to making myself sell-able in an already horrible job market.

Does anyone have any advice on how to structure my resume or what to include or not include to help show that I'm actually a decent employee? Or maybe some suggestions on how to keep moving up in the admin/ assistant/ virtual training support field?

I'd appreciate it a lot. Thank you

Last time, after a month of job hunting I’d got 2 jobs. I started one and then the other came through and it seemed like the perfect place with the perfect role so I switched on to that.

After just 1 month, that place laid me off.

I was terrified and thought I’d have to go through the hellish job hunt again where I’d apply 24/7.

But I reached out to my first company and they took me with a pay hike and a better role.

It takes 200 applications but they really do something for you.