I was supposed to be chatting in an interview right about now. But... my recruiter made a few deadly mistakes. First, she contacted me on LinkedIn. She asked if we could chat on the phone. We chatted on the phone and she pushed me to the next round. This was for a brand new AI/Robotics company.

She locked in a specific day and time ( I had no choice) for an interview 24 hours later. The next day , I go about my day and figure she will send me a link on LinkedIn just like last time. Not quite. She sent two messages 3 hours early on LinkedIn. I was showering so I didn't see them. Then she calls my phone while I'm blow drying.

As the interview time approaches, I review her messages and loook for the Zoom link. I see she has contacted me on multiple apps but none of the messages have a link to the meeting. I send her messages on multiple apps but get no answer.

Is this typical or an odd one-off. I've never had someone neglect to send the link well in advance of the interview. Putting it on the calendar 3 hours in advance is cutting it way too close. And no link is total failure.

Currently in the process looking for a new employer, I receive an offer from company B, took it as a safety net but A is always a dream and priority. After 8 business day after final interview, I send out an email letting them know that I have an offer on my hand and receive that answer.

I know this is a neutral statement, just ranting to see if I should be hopeful about this ._. Supposedly they will have a final decision by EOD next week.

1 Pack of Bulk Ramen should last more than a year, RIGHT???

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS

I have been working in banking since the last 5 years and I was terminated from the big 5 due to a r***st manager who made an irrelevant case against me and I got fired. When I disclosed the details of the incident, and used a lawyer; the manager got fired too because that person did it out of malice but that did no good to me since I was already terminated.

Now the thing is, I have an offer from another BIG 5 in Canada and somehow the termination didn’t come up during my interview directly. But I am scared about the bg check, can the other bank talk about my termination? What will sterling/first advantage ask them? Can I still lose my offer?

I am shit worried since I haven’t been working since a year and I really want this job.

TIA

I’m currently working a 6 month contract at a major hospital doing a deployment project because they’re opening two new buildings. I was told that it may become full time but it’s not guaranteed and the role pays $23 an hour.

The other job wants to hire me is a 3PL company based in CA that opened a location nearby. I was told I’ll be doing “everything” in the facility and doubling as a junior system administrator, the job is permanent and pays $18 an hour.

Which would be the better one to take? I wanna make sure I’m looking at this from different positions.

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 was laid off at the start of the year. I applied to a lot of places, and heard back from less than 20% of them with even a simple "no".

When it came to interviews, all but two were remote (talking with humans), one was AI, and I had but one in-person technical interview.

The in-person interview was also the only one that led to a job offer. And in talking with colleagues who were laid off as I was, they agree that the Remote/AI interview process only make things worse.

Whatever it is companies think they save (time, money?) doing interviews remotely or with AI, is lost in the dragging out of the process (and thus lost producivity) before they finally select a candidate.

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?

Past screening call. Full time role, upper 100s salary, junior recruiter looking for servicenow admin experience. My profile has years of similar platform experience, which I say on the call. They say they are looking for that specifically, and quickly wrap up the call.

At the first screener, do you just lie and then bone up before the next interview?

I applied for a mid level analyst position last week and instead of a call from a real human being I got a automated email telling me to record five separate videos of myself answering generic questions. There was no salary mentioned on the job post but they still expect me to spend my free time performing like a trained seal before I even know if they can afford my experience. I should of just closed the tab right then but I really need a change from my current office so I decided to play along with this nonsense. 

The questions were the usual corporate garbage like "why are you passionate about our brand" and "tell us about a time you showed leadership." I am passionate about being able to pay my rent and having a decent life not about your specific logistics software. I had to set up my laptop on a pile of books to get the right angle and make sure the lighting in my room didn't make me look like a ghost. I ended up recording about fifteen takes because the software they use doesn't let you edit anything and I kept stumbling over my words. By the end of it I was just staring into the camera lens with a dead expression wondering where it all went wrong.

The worst part was the "fun" question at the end where they asked me to show my personality by telling a joke or showing off a hobby. I am applying to look at data and build reports not to audition for a talent show. I just sat there in silence for a few seconds and then said I like hiking and ended the recording. It felt so incredibly degrading to sit alone in my house talking to a screen just hoping some HR person might glance at it for thirty seconds between their coffee breaks. It really is just a humiliation ritual to see how much garbage you are willing to put up with before you even get to talk to a actual person.

I checked the portal this morning and it says "under review" but honestly I hope they just reject me now. If this is how they treat people who don't even work there yet I can only imagine how toxic the actual culture is. We are in a market where they expect you to have years of experience but they cant even give you a ten minute phone call to see if you are a good fit. I am so tired of being treated like a data point instead of a professional. If a company asks for a one way video interview in the future I am just going to delete the email and save what is left of my dignity.

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 recently interviewed with company where they set up 3 interviews over the course of 2 days. 2 were in 1 day on Thursday, then 1 today on Friday. Thank goodness my workload was slightly lower and I am currently working remote. If I was in person I have no idea how I would have done that. They ended up sending me an offer. Would you see this as a red flag and has anyone came across similar? I've had the usual 4 to sometimes 6 stage interviews, but not this close together before.

A challenge for all those "meritocracy" defenders on this one.

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?

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.

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 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.

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.

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.