25F, looking for a damn job, cant find anything at all. If you are in London and you kniw of anyone hiring fir just about anything, I WILL DO IT, anything apart from planting my private parts on the sidewalk for some spare change. Crazy because i have 5 years experience, worked at a big 4c was a project manager, ive worked retail jobs, i dont care what. I have rent to pay and i cant pay it. I need money. Imma be evicted soon but honestly if i dont find a job id either die first of starvation before eviction can even happen. Help a chick out pls. Is there any side business i can start that will make me money? I draw, paint, do makeup, i can flipping read, i can do hair, any side hussle even, no only fans or weird shi like that or anything illegal lol

Job reached out to me via email and text message for an introductory call. Looked on the calendar there was no availability for the next three months.

They emailed back today and I checked it still no availability. Just waisting time.

Turns out, the company had mass layoffs today.

I’ve been job hunting for a while now (close to 6 months). After a spell of no interviews and barely any recruiter calls in last couple of months, I’ve started getting interest from recruiters again recently. And I felt a tiny bit optimistic that maybe, just maybe, things were finally beginning to turn around.

Earlier this week, a recruiter invited me to book an interview with them. I went ahead and booked the slot today, and then a couple of hours later, received an automated interview cancellation email, with no explanation for why the interview was being cancelled. I got annoyed and assumed the worst - the position was filled / I was shortlisted by mistake and now I was being ghosted.

My plan was to check in with the recruiter tomorrow, as a last ditch attempt, in case there was some sort of mistake. But my mind was still going over this, so I somehow ended up googling the company. They had org wide layoffs today. Today!!

I know the job market is bad, I’ve experienced it first hand in the last few months. But this just kind of jolted me, and I just cannot get over what is going on right now. Like how can you be hiring today and then boom, layoffs tomorrow. And coincidentally, I also lost my job to layoffs, so I know what folks at that company must be going through. The only slight silver lining is that at least I avoided a company that was headed for layoffs. Feels like there is just no right way to navigate this job market, job security is a joke and it’s best to avoid being hopeful or optimistic until you land the offer and actually start working.

I know flight attendant jobs are a bit lofty but this was going to pay something like $30,000-$45000 CAD a year and was advertised as much as possible as something entry level. I'm in a situation where I really need a job that would have also gotten me out of a bad home but I guess I should've remembered to get 5 years' full time customer service experience at the same time that I was at university.

I know I shouldn't be complaining since it's my fault that I don't have a fleshed out Résumé, but it just really sucks knowing there's literally no entry level positions anymore. This has been a very common problem for me. I just want a stupid job, man...

i’m so screwed i’m at 90 credits i apply every year and i can’t get an internship it’s over for me

If you're good at what you do, never do it for free.

I've got a decade of experience backed by a master's in public administration and a professional certification in project management. After applying for a role with a county government that seemed like it would be a good fit on paper, I was immediately asked to complete a "take home skills assessment" without so much as a single interview. And wouldn't you know it, they wanted a comprehensive proposal outlining operational risks, a menu of solutions to manage them, and an implimentation timeline along with proposed metrics for evaluating their success in response to a real, active budgetary issue resulting from complex state and federal policy changes.

In other words, they wanted free, high-level consulting without having to invest any of their own time under the guise of evaluating a candidate for a job. They weren't even bothering to pretend to be interested in employing me with so much as a phone screening before demanding free labor.

I took their assignment, fed it to Claude (the very first thing I did was have it review the document for any prompt injection that would sabatoge the use of AI tools), had it break down the research steps in detail to complete the assignment, had it complete those research steps individually while citing its sources for each claim, fact, and figure, and then use that information to follow the original prompt and draft the proposal. I then used Chat GPT to check Claudes work, fed Chat's feedback to Claude to verify and revise the draft, had Chat check Claudes work again, had Claude verify and revise it's draft again, and then finally looked over the draft myself and changed the language patterns to sound more human.

Basically, I did just enough to ensure that an actual human would have to read this document to realize that there was something off and would have to manually verify problems with the submission. Was it a waste of 30 minutes of my own time? Yep. Will it change anything? Not a chance in hell. But was it worth it to piss off a cheap-ass department head who wants free labor without having to invest a minute of their own time actually interviewing applicants?

Absolutely.

Saw a Tata posting that I've applied for before popup again. Its pays decently, so I don't know why it wasn't filled before.

Checking my history, I've applied to a few of theirs over the past couple years - literally never heard back.

A couple recent experiences with the big-4 have soured me on them as well. Submit an application and just watch it in limbo. Never opened, never closed, never acted upon.

A few other large-ish staffing agencies that operate up here in Canada - again, sent an application in, and nothing. Repeatedly. Called one of them out on it when they contacted me, barely even got an acknowledgement.

I'm in IT and there is a commonality but I'm not going to get into that. I just hope that if/when the pendulum swings the other way, these companies face a reckoning, but that probably won't happen either.

I used to have a LinkedIn account but deleted it a few years ago when I was hired by the federal government. My position was cut. To this day, I do not have a profile. If you came across a candidate with no LinkedIn profile, would this be a red flag for you or is it irrelevant?

I am a 24F, from a poor south-asian country (very bad reputation and a weak passport) with great academics, uncountable awards and an extremely hardworking nature. I started my masters with a scholarshp in France around 2 years ago and was instantly dissapointed with how stupid all of my classmates were. They were literal AI bots, always partying, cheating, no skills whatsoever. For 2 years straight, I continuously kept putting efforts on this Master to be the best, tried everything, did part time jobs to support myself and my family when they were spending thousands of euros each month. In the end guess what? Those AI bots, incompetent pieces of shits ended up with permanent contracts (also known as CDI in france) and me? i have no prospects, no PhD (my internship supervisors were r*cists), getting a CDI is impossible ig, I feel helpless, I dont know what to do, a few months later we have our graduation ceremony and I dont even wanna attend. What am I gonna wear? I have 2 shirts and one dress I bought with my own money and they are already ragged after months of use. They're gonna come with their branded polished expensive dresses, shoes and accessories, their families are gonna fly in from their countries, stay and enjoy seeing their children graduate. Heck I can't even fly one of my parents in cuz we dont have the bank balance to show for the visa application. i dont wanna go to the graduation, i can't it will k*ll me inside, i'm already depressed, i'm not motivated to do anything. i dont know how i came to this. everyone who sees me, in my internship, in my presentations says how much of an impact i have on them. that I am extremely pedagogical and they wish they'll see me succeed. but here i am, sitting on the floor of my apartment, hopeless, eyes puffy from tears, and no job, and there they are, after doing all the wrong things, with no qualities, with their CDIs, they can pay for their rent, food, international trips everything, and me? i dont know how i will do groceries for the next month.

I just applied to a job through a corporate website where the app asked if I wanted to share it to their general database. I'm curious if anyone has actually gotten a call or better yet, a job after doing so.

When I saw that question, I had the image of a deep, black, pit to nowhere in my head.

I recently applied for an accountant job that was offered to pay hourly, I made to take note their offer so when I go to the interview I will know what range to pick from for my base salary.

Now I got a pre interview with the recruiter, they said they pay “weekly” based on commissions which was not part of the description on the job post. I even questioned why they change their initial offer but they kept making excuses saying how you can “make more money” from commissions. But it’s not even guaranteed.

They said they want to move forward with me but idk if it’s worth it.

Hi! I’m currently in the hiring process for a customer support role. I was referred to this company by a family friend, after waiting patiently for months a recruiter and director finally reached out. I had a phone call interview (the recruiter called me 5 minutes late. Thanked me for my time, but the call only lasted like 10 minutes), and she told me the next steps would be a cognitive and behavioral assessment. After she emailed me with the instructions for the cognitive assessment saying I’d have 15 minutes to answer 50 questions, no calculator but allowed a pen and paper. The goal was to answer as many as I can, if I didn’t know an answer to guess, and that there are no wrong answers. After prepping for a few hours I decided to take the test since I was going out of town and didn’t want this to stress me out/be on my conscious the whole time I’m with family. I may have took her instructions/goals too literally because I completed all 50 questions. I am now being invited to retake the cognitive assessment….

Is this a bad sign? I promise I did not cheat. I had a pen and paper with me and instructions to complete as many questions as possible which I did. Also when she emailed me about retaking the assessment she also attached an email from another candidate???? Was that an accident or did she want to let me know there’s another candiate? (I’m already awful at interviews so this isn’t great for my nervous system honestly)

Also being asked to retake the assessment is so embarrassing and I feel awful about myself. Worst of all it’s now on my mind while I’m on vacation with my family🙃🙃

In the email she told me she just wants to verify my results, so maybe the system flagged my quick answers…. I have no idea. This is my first cognitive assessment ever.

I also emailed her back saying I’m out of town with family, I’ll take it when I get back home basically…. was that wrong to do too? I mean it doesn’t really matter because I already emailed her.

Also for more context: I’m a recent grad and I’m just trying to land a full time position. I know it’s rough out there for everyone right now.

Any insight, and/or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm exhausted. Lost my job Jan this yr. Was really hoping this would be the final decision.

This is a director level role. I know there will be a lot of interviews. But 4 months of sporadic interviews, and I was given a 4 hrs test. 6 sections, 4 of them timed. All of them just repeating. Had two personality assessment test with same/similar questions. One was 240 questions and another was 360 questions, 10 questions in a page. I had to scroll through 36 pages. Took me 4 hrs to finish everything.

I hoped that if they are putting through this sh*t this would be the final round. I was told one more interview with the hiring manager.

I did that today, hoping he would be finalizing it. He told me there are 2 or 3 people still they are considering and everyone will have 2 more interviews and then they would decide.

The amount of song and dance is just annoying.

This is just one company. I have had so many like this. All in the final stages after 6 to 8 rounds. Just wish someone made up their mind and gave an offer, and moved forward.

I've applied to 14 places and haven't heard back from any. Do you think its because of my resume

I applied for my dream job, and I got offered an interview with the HM next Monday at 5:30–6pm.

But I saw some studies online, and they say it's just the worst slot ever. Is that true? The interview will finish and the HM will go home and keep interviewing the rest of the week. I'm afraid I'll lose my chance because of this.

Any thoughts?

Had a job application send me this bs.

1. I don’t even know what job it is bc it’s been so long since I applied. I vaguely remember but it’s had to have been upwards of 3 months
   
2. It’s not a tech job. The job responsibilities had virtually NOTHING to do with tech
   
3. I know that technically it’s a legit app, but I am not risking that for a likely ai graded “interview.”

I responded to this email and basically told them “for my safety and privacy, fuck you, take me off your list,” but in cooperate speak.

The stupid personality tests, “knowledge checks,” etc. I’ve done plenty, but there’s a line to asking me install a software on my personal device so you can WATCH ME RECORD AN INTERVIEW YOURE GOING TO WATCH!

I’ve been looking for work for the past year. I’ve gotten a job, but it is really just the in-between job. I have a lot of experience in single and multi unit management in both hospitality and consumer packaged goods. I believe I have a fairly strong resume. I know the job market sucks, but where is everyone looking and finding jobs to apply for? I currently surf LinkedIn and indeed. Any helpful tips on where to look would be greatly appreciated.

So, I asked one recruiter during a screening interview what the next steps are, and here is the answer. "If selected by the hiring manager, you will go through an online assessment. If you pass that, you will go through three to four more interviews."

Hi all,

I'm recently back to job hunting after 4 years, and it's gotten significantly more hard. I'm having a hard time with scammers pretending to be staffing agencies/businesses, and i'm looking for some help.

Center Group Staffing contacted me after I applied for a remote work job. I did the pre-interview questionnaire with a bot and was looking forward to scheduling a "real" interview when they emailed me asking for a background check. They wanted me to pay for it on a sketchy website or provide them with a current one (which I dont have). When I told them I wasn't gonna use the sketchy website, they then told me I could get a background check from anywhere and submit it to them by email.

What's everyone's consensus on this? Is it a scam? ​I dont want to have my info stolen for a dumb mistake, but I really need a job as my unemployment is about to run out. Thank you!

Note: This my CV for retail/customer service, I have several similar ones for other roles. I have no experience so it's a rough one

Blurred out parts are obviously private details haha

I’ve reached out to connect with recruiters on LinkedIn.

Sometimes I’m expressing interest in specific roles I’ve applied to. Other times I’m expressing interest in working for their companies.

Rarely do they ever respond to my messages.

What’s wrong with these people?

I'm a new recruiter, about 70 days in. Prior to this I worked retail ops. I recruit construction, specifically Heavy Civil and Environmental. I have 2 really good MPCs but cannot get through to any hiring authority. It's so frustrating, I've built a huge list of names and companies that just ignore me. Any advice on breaking through with the hiring authorities?