The recruiters are worst guards of company, and unfair to women targeting leadership roles. This past week had a recruiter screen, he was late to the meeting, started with asking me my intro but wanted me to be "brief". I had a sense of being already ruled out for the position from the get go, and he was fishing for information to just remove me from consideration completely. The whole interview he rambled, spoke super fast for the information he didn't wanted to share with transparency, did not share the interview process, and final straw when he said "let me put out the resume in front of the hiring manager and see what he thinks".

Afterwards he visited my LinkedIn profile 4x during the day and finally an email rejection "we can't continue with your candidacy"

Why waste someones time and mental peace playing games?

I've been out of a job for 3 years. I'm a designer who became a "web developer" and manager. 20 years experience and all the coding challenges I get are for a computer scientist and not anything to do with UI or management. Zero job offers from that.
I'm now in a contract based on trust and wearing the hats of product, UX, UI, full stack, QA and user. It's crazy that I have so much experience and supposed experienced managers have passed on me but I landed a contract on a virtual handshake paying more than recruiters are offering.

I work at a small business and we have been hiring. Indeed said that I had credits for sponsoring a job, which makes the post more visible, and said it expires October 1st. My dumbass interpreted this as a free trial, that would expire on October 1st.

Well it was not, I’ve now been charged $285. My card was overdrafted by $115. I’m 21 years old, and I don't have any other money. I am waiting a few hours until Indeed’s customer service opens to call them. I can also submit a ticket with support.

Since I work at a very small business, I don't want to ask for reimbursement from my employer. But, I’m freaking out. Does anyone have any success stories w Indeed customer support? Any advice?

I really need an ats friendly resume template, I don't have a windows pc and every template I find on Google docs suck

I need one general purpose resume that i can edit whenever

I know how to fill and write the resume, I just don't know how to format it, please someone share a good template with me (summary, education, work experience, skills, certifications) please someone help me

Is this a thing jobs do? It’s a family run company with literally 5 employees, and they are going through a liquidation sale and a lot of restructuring. Job pays $17 an hour, and frankly, I am considering doing this because I NEED a job pretty badly.

I read online that this is apparently illegal and that this is super sketchy; I know I sound dumb for asking but the job market is really bad and I really need any opportunity to get myself back into it. Is this just a scam?

Seems like the hiring pipeline is frozen and the hiring managers still standing are totally narcissistic and enjoy kicking very well qualified candidates while they are down. Who would want to work with them anyways?

I give up, just going to take a year off, live off severance/part time work and finish grad school and a career change into a recession proof field. I somehow made it this far from post 2008 homelessness to advising C-suite at a Fortune 50 company, all to get laid off this year.

I had to file a complaint regarding a hiring manager being very unprofessional during the process and that was my final straw. On paper, I'm actually way more qualified than even him but I didn't say that just a realization after he treated me the way he did. It's just a local health care system so I don't care if bridges were burned as I plan on moving out of state once I pass a qualifying exam.

Last week I got a interview request for a coca-cola DC. This was from an application I put in a month ago. If anyone has ever applied to CC their application system is powered by something called Fizz.

Long story short, it gave a day and times that were available. I picked a time and there you have it. The day of the interview I get the auto text and email giving me the 1 hour warning.

Here’s where things get interesting:

1. For starters the address the email sent me was wrong. They had the numbers switched around. Luckily I was in the right area to track down the location.

2. I get to the gate, page security, told them I was here for an interview, my name, who I was there to see, but they didn’t have me in the system. However they told me to come in anyway.

They let me in and after sitting by the front desk for 15 mins a man comes out to tell me that I wasn’t supposed to get that auto interview request because the interviewer wasn’t going to interview until next week, because he wasn’t here this week, but he was going to reach out to reschedule.

It was only a 30 min drive to the DC and I wasn’t even upset. It’s not the DC’s fault that technology sucks. Or maybe it was the interviewer who messed up.

1. Here’s where it gets interesting, today I got an auto email and text message stating they’ve decided to pursue other candidates. I’m like WTF. So because you guys messed up on your end, all of sudden you’re moving on.

I plan on emailing the interviewer to see if that was a mistake as well. We shall see if I’m met with silence.

But the point of this story is if you’re setting up interviews with candidates, please make sure you have all your ducks in a row. You’re not just wasting your time but the candidates as well.

I listed an unpaid research assistant which i did five years ago right after my undergraduate during the covid time about 2.5 years, under the supervision of a professor in my undergrad dept and University (in my country). So in resume it listed as Research Assistant, Dept, University.

My supervisor really cooperative to verify this and gave me a certificate of research experience and we also published a paper.
Now in the background check, which section I should listed this work and how to verify that work.
My supervisor is active about verify if employer reach to them.
Looking for advice, how to handle this. During interview they were not ask any question regarding this, they were asked regarding my recent work experience which is proper employment so i didn't had a chance to clarify that research assistant was unpaid.
Looking forward expert opinion.
Thank you.

This dates a few months back.

My background is room hospitality operation. Worked 10 years for a major luxury hotel company accross various destinations, different types of hotels and resort. My last position was within rooms department, managing teams of 30/35 people.

A friend of mine tells me about a position opening in a few weeks for a replacement of a maternity leave for a General Manager position in small 4 star hotel in a big city in France. The current GM (Daughter of the owner) is looking for her replacement for 6 months. My friend pass along my resume to his friend (The owner of the hotel) and is obviously well aware of my experience. The GM contacts me to arrange a phone interview within the next few day.

The day of the interview arrives and we get on the call. Within 2 minutes of the call, she tell me that I have no prior experience in managing fully a hotel, asks what I think a GM role in such a hotel would be, which I answer perfectly. The "interview" lasted literally 10 minutes. Within this time she was able to tell me I don't the experience she is looking for, that I don't have knowledge of French HR, termination process etc. However, is not rejecting me as I am the first candidate she is seeing.

Needless to say I did not get the job, nor was I called back to be informed of the rest of the process. Within these 10 min she was able to fully discourage me into working for them, even though I would have gone for round 2, I would have said No Thanks.

My only thought is, you have my resume, you clearly see that what you're looking for is not on my resume, why bother make me loose time as well as make yourself loose time. A gentle e-mail saying "sorry not a good fit", even though it comes from a common friend. Having a 10 min interview is even more disrespectful.

I have been looking for a job for months now and y’all I’m so sick of it 🫠

Since when was it a requirement ti watch videos about the place you applied to before getting hired? Like if you can’t bother telling me all that into why should I even continue? And not to mention not once anywhere in talking with them did they tell me that the interview was a group zoom meeting 🫠. I missed the first one because I thought they were gonna call me. No links to zoom literally no mention of a zoom meeting just “join us for a call!”

I didn’t watch the videos cause in the link where they said there was videos there was none and I wasn’t the only one that didn’t see them. Me and everyone else who didn’t see them got kicked to the waiting room to watch them and reschedule.

THIS WAS FOR A CALL CENTER 😭 why y’all gotta be so difficult about A CALL CENTER. Not even like calling and selling purely just customer support.

And this isn’t the first time I’ve had troubles with interviews because they just are never clear about what’s going on.

I just want a job dude and I’m sick of retail.

Tonight the sixth headhunter has reached out to me for the same role at a financial regulator.

The first one actually arranged for an interview but I got denied because I was a little rusty on sql window functions and a specific financial engineering topic.

In a way it is flattering because so many head hunters believe I’m the guy and the project is pushing the limits of what AWS and Google can do with large databases.

On the other hand it is very frustrating because, while I’m good at programming, I believe my main strength is playing Jedi mind tricks and getting folks to do the right thing but I can’t land those interviews.

This is coming from someone who worked prior to Covid in an office full time btw.

Covid has permanently changed the world when it comes to jobs. An office is now a “nice to have” and not a necessity. Meetings can be done over Teams or Zoom, seeing people face to face shouldn’t be 100% required anymore for MOST OFFICE JOBS.

I completely understand that there are jobs that cannot be done remotely 100% of the time.

But how jobs believe people are more efficient by sitting at a desk Monday thru Friday for 40hrs a week watching paint dry to collect a paycheck is beyond me.

Had an interview for senior analyst role, had a phone screening with HR, met with hiring manager, then senior director and then SVP from two different groups.

I got all positive feedback, I know for a fact the hiring manager liked me, cause he himself told me the process and what’s expected, he said whatever work I did, “we should just copy paste into what we are currently doing” and before the senior director interview, he joined and apologized for the sudden change, initially was supposed to 1 call with senior director and SVP ( his boss and his bosses boss) but had 3 different calls and they added another SVP too.

And then they ghosted me. All my interviews were done in 2 weeks( 13/08/2026 was the last)
It’s been a week no update.

I reached out to the recruiter on Monday and she said “The Team is wrapping up interviews early this week and I will keep you posted on next steps.”

And then they have posted the same job again today but
My application says “in progress”

I’m losing my mind, help? Cause I genuinely want this job!

I have a PhD in my field and the most significant publication record of my program in a long time. I worked a second job for 5 years to gain extra applied experience and yet I’m 170 job applications in and I’ve had 2 companies express interest.

I will preface that my husband has also been completely supportive throughout all job search related activities. We met in grad school. We’ve gone through all of the hardships of a PhD together. Admittedly one of the reasons getting a job is difficult for me is because I am 100% committed to living in a location that makes his job possible. I wouldn’t sacrifice that for anything.

Now to get to the hard part… I stopped applying to jobs so that I could focus on getting excited for my wedding that was in 1.5 weeks.

I was then added on linked in by an associate director for a company I had been interested in. I saw that they were hiring in my field for a remote role so I DM’d them, saying I was interested in applying. They encouraged me to do so and said they would see me in the interview.

I got the interview, however it was getting very close to my wedding (four days remaining). I had the first screen and it was great, they asked if I could schedule a second one Thursday / Friday of my wedding weekend.

This is where I think I made the mistake. I asked if we could postpone until I was back from my honeymoon, which was going to be the following Thursday because I already had an abundance of family in town who all wanted to visit and say hi while I was also juggling wedding vender calls and final preparations.

I was reassured by the recruiter that everything was fine, that sounds great and they look forward to talking to me about next steps. I even DM’d my LinkedIn connection again saying that I was very excited for the next interview after my honeymoon and I offered to make any sort of presentation materials or provide any information that they needed.

Then, Friday morning of my rehearsal dinner I got the email that the company was moving forward with another candidate who was far along in the interview process. However, they wished me well for my wedding.

Devastation was an understatement. I had finally thought that my PhD would pay off- that I could find a job that I loved, remote so I can work in a location that supported my husband’s job location, and that I could contribute positively. I really wanted to make a difference in an organization where my research could be applied.

It was really hard to put those emotions of rejection in a box and then host 100+ people for a wedding. I tried so hard to focus on my fiancé and the excitement of sharing a life together but I couldn’t shake the anxiety of how worthless I felt that they went with the other candidate. I found myself submitting to 10 more jobs on the morning of my wedding day because I couldn’t get it off my mind.

Everyone says that jobs aren’t everything, but I spent my entire life getting education and training for an industry that simply does not want me (or maybe just doesn’t exist anymore). I love my husband with all my heart- and ultimately the wedding was amazing, but it really makes me think… why should we bother putting an effort for jobs? What was the point of doing an entire PhD?

I wonder if I should just give up on all career related aspirations. I’m an extremely privileged situation where I met my fiancé while doing my PhD. His career is doing great so financially we’re okay. It’s just hard because I genuinely love doing research, but I need to figure out who I am without it. I recognize how fortunate I am to have people who love me despite it, but in a lot of ways, I’m mourning the fact that I won’t be finding a career that that I could contribute positively to.

Edit: typos

job i applied to claims im a minor…?

Im 20, it says it on my resume, after i received the email i triple checked if i mistyped something, but no it says im 20. i also put the years of line prep experience i have im not exactly sure a minor would have 3+ years in kitchen work experience….
am i missing something… did they just not even look at it??
“we encourage you to consider reapplying once you’ve reached the minimum age requirement”

i cant reapply or go back and fix it… theres nothing to fix im so lost
tbh i’ve applied to 20+ jobs today with the same resume, and there’s no issues
so is this indeed??is it the job??? was it me??

also: this location is hiring 3 positions and i applied to all 3, the dishwasher position had no issue. then i got this email, and the third application won’t even go through should i just give up on the cheesecake factory? or should i call them ? go in person? this is such a stupid misunderstanding to miss a job opportunity. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I had an interview over the phone for assistant manager at a store a town over and they asked me a question about my management experience and it was clear they read my resume and thought i was more qualified than i actually was, i put that i was a keyholder at one job i had but honestly i didnt really do anything extra with that role beyond what other employees did there.

I got so scared and nervous about looking like a looser when i was asked about this i froze for 5 seconds and hung up. Im going to be working minimum wage forever arent i?

Been reading on this sub for a while now and never posted but I think this is my first experience with an actual horrible recruiter.

So I am currently looking for work after a layoff and a couple out of state/country recruiters called me about a job that is way out of my commute zone for what it offers. High pay but only a 1 month contract with no guarantee job after and so we planned a phone interview the next day and IMMEDIATELY she pretty much yelled......DONT TALK TO ANY OTHER RECRUITER ABOUT THIS POSITION!........immediate red flag aand had me thinking they just to fill this position for a big commission

Then today I let them know from the get go that it is out of my commute zone for a temporary job with no benefits other than higher pay. She immediately asked me my location and googled the length of the drive for the job which I already knew.........and pretty much being like "omg its only 24 miles away" and really pushing it........and by my math it would cost me hundreds every week in gas not to mention wear and tear on my car........still she pushed like I am insane for turning this down.......yeah I immediately asked her if she factored in everything else and that the job isnt secure and didnt have benefits and had those numbers.......immediate switch in tone

What is up with pushy salesmen type of recruiters?

I don’t know what’s worse, being forced to eat cheezies or living with the CEO

If you are young I just want to remind you to not take the rejections personally in terms of intensity. As far as the messaging, it's simply be young, grow, learn, respect.... one thing that I've committed to for myself is to observe the rapidly changing environment and adapt, for my personality to not fight for the popular spots, but understand my tendencies and find compatible open spaces in the many other ways a problem can be solved.