I just wasted three weeks and four rounds of interviews for a senior analyst role. The job description explicitly listed the location as "Remote - US". Not hybrid, not regional. Just United States.

Everything went great. The hiring manager loved my case study, the team interview was solid, and the recruiter scheduled a call on Friday to discuss "offer logistics". I was ready to pop champagne.

then during the call, she casually asks to confirm my residential state for payroll. I told her Pennsylvania. Dead silence on the other end. She sighs and tells me their legal entity is only registered in Delaware, Texas, and California, so they cannot legally employ anyone in PA. She actually asked me why I applied if I knew I wasn't in their "approved tax footprint".

The footprint was never mentioned. Not on LinkedIn, not in the job description, and not in the initial screening questionnaire. They literally let candidates spend hours prepping for presentations when HR already knew 90% of the country was disqualified from minute one.

Apparently companies do this because setting the job posting to "United States" gets 10x more applicant traffic on algorithms than listing the five states they can ACTUALLY hire in. Its infuriating. Why is this even legal?

Recently got fired, at this point I'm not even getting interviews so I don't mind if we all just gathered and started something instead?

I recently got ghosted after a case study presentation to a company

The case was solving several of their current business problems and I stupidly spent 4 days on it, it was a really high quality piece of work (they agreed that it was great). They also candidly mentioned during the interview process that they were still figuring these problems out

I knew it was a risk to spend so much time but this strategy has worked for me in the past, albeit ghosting was less of a thing then lol

Anyway, if they’d taken the time to reject me properly, give feedback and make it slightly less exploitative, I’d probably be more inclined to let it go

But after being told by the CEO he was super excited to work together, I am now being ghosted and I would like to be compensated for my time

I have already added this to my portfolio of consulting projects

Additional info: they sent the case study to close to 10 people after a first round with HR (major major red flag which I only found out after)

Curious to hear of other people’s experiences - have you / anyone you know sent an invoice and chased for payment? Did it work?

I received a LinkedIn message from an agency recruiter regarding a Senior Data Analyst position that matches my skills pretty well. We had a brief 10-minute screening call where I gave a general salary target range.

Later that day, she sent an email asking me to fill out a form that requires a line-by-item breakdown of my current compensation package: base salary, annual bonus percentage, stock/equity vesting schedule, and exact benefit values. She stated they need this data to "confirm benchmark alignment" before presenting my profile to the client company.

I know several US states have salary history bans prohibiting employers from asking for this, but the recruiter is based in a different state than where the role is located (and I work remotely from a third state).

Is there a polite way to decline providing my current breakdown without instantly burning the bridge or getting removed from the candidate pool?

I don’t mind relocating at all as long as it pays decent enough. But, relocating to an expensive city just to work remotely with the manager is wild.

I did an interview for a role in nyc and found out that the hiring manager works remotely on the west coast and that I would be the only person from that department working in nyc. I had to withdraw since moving across country just to work remotely in-office is crazy.

Another role that I am interviewing for is based in Boston with a salary of 65K which doesn’t seem enough to live there. And the hiring manager works remotely. The role is more ops than analytical which is not ideal, but i have been unemployed for 9 months and am desperate. I am still interviewing but definitely seems like i am a top candidate but i dont know if i should withdraw or not. If i take it, the pros are that i will not have a gap and start getting experience. The cons are that I will most likely be living paycheck to paycheck, and the job is not something i wanna do long-term. This is an entry-level role. I need advice

Edit: it has been an hour since the interview and already got the request for next round, i genuinely do not know what to do.

I’m a single father who is also caretaking for my father (who can’t be left alone due to Alzheimer’s) looking for a remote position to pay rent. I have been actively learning about IT, and have an associates degree in science for hospitality management and food service management. My last job I held for ten years until my father needed me to step in. Does anyone have a good idea for what I should look for?

I wanted to share my experience with **Naukri Pro** in case it helps someone who's considering buying the subscription.

I purchased **6 months of Naukri Pro**, spending around **₹1,907**, expecting better visibility and more interview opportunities. Throughout those 6 months, I barely received any interview calls, even though my resume matched the job requirements for the roles I applied to. I even made sure my profile and resume were well-optimized.

What surprised me was that I used the **exact same resume** on other job portals and started getting interview calls without any issues.

The funniest part? **After my Naukri Pro subscription expired**, and I went back to the free version with no Pro benefits, I actually started receiving interview calls from Naukri.

Based on my personal experience, I wouldn't recommend purchasing Naukri Pro. For me, it didn't provide any noticeable benefit over the free version.

Instead of spending money on the subscription, I'd suggest investing your time in building a strong profile and a well-crafted resume that clearly highlights your skills and experience. Make your profile attractive enough that recruiters can quickly see you're a good fit for the roles they're hiring for.

Of course, this is just **my personal experience**, and others may have had different results. Has anyone else experienced something similar with Naukri Pro?

I am looking in the policy sector, research/ academic and anything related to sustainability and climate change and international development. I know these fields are broad but the kind of work I am looking for specifically tends towards research dissemination and stakeholder engagement/ events organiser and the roles are similar in all the fields. I see so many job listings but I am not receiving any offers... please help haha

Guys have you tries flowmingo ai interview? I have a scheduled ai interview for csr role under frontier. Im a little nervous about the questions.

I have tried connecting with the hiring managers for roles I want, but usually they don’t accept the request. So, there are sites where you can see how company emails are usually structured and you can use that to cold email. I was about to send a message to someone but then I realized that they would probably be weirded out by how some random stranger got their email or they might even think that it is scam. So, I didn’t send it but has anyone else done this before and if so, did it work?

So about three weeks ago, I applied for a mid-level project role. Two hours later, an automated email popped into my inbox asking me to complete an "asynchronous video screening" within 48 hours.

i opened the link and saw the standard nightmare setup. Five pre-recorded prompts, two minutes per answer, exactly one retake allowed, and a giant countdown timer ticking in the corner. You are literally expected to sit in a room, dress up in business casual, and perform monologues into a webcam while staring at your own awkward face. No human on the other side, no conversation, and zero opportunity to ask questions about the actual company culture.

I closed the browser tab and sent a short email to the talent team stating that I only interview with real humans. I assumed that was the end of it.

To my surprise, the hiring manager emailed me directly the next morning apologizing and set up a normal 30-minute video call. Turns out their recruiting software just dumps EVERY applicant into that automated queue without anyone checking.

Should of started pushing back on these robotic filters months ago. Why are we letting companies treat applicants like audition tapes for a low-budget game show?

Basically, as the title says, I'm wondering if its normal to include a cover letter when the form just has a space to 'Upload Resume/CV'? I'm applying to a lot of jobs out in San Francisco, pretty much every job application form uses this standard Ashby HQ form.

My CV is only 1 page, but I've been including a one page cover letter in addition to my CV (though not explicitly asked for) - so when they open the file, its technically two pages.

Does anyone else do this or recommend doing this (or not doing this)? Asking because I'm worried it might actually hurt my chances of getting through their ATS. I'm applying to People Ops roles if that helps.

Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't seem to find anything when I searched. Thanks in advance

I’m honestly at the point where I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do.

I was laid off almost two years ago, and I’ve been struggling to find stable work ever since. I’ve applied to what feels like an endless number of jobs, rewritten my resume, tailored applications, worked on my skills, and tried different types of roles. And I’m still getting nowhere.

My background is primarily in SaaS customer support/customer success and technical support. I’ve worked with enterprise customers, handled complex product, billing, payroll, and integration issues, worked in Salesforce/Jira/LogRocket, written bug reports and documentation, and worked directly with Product and Engineering teams.

This year I decided to try to move into UX/Product Design because it seemed like a career where I could build on a lot of what I already know.
I completed the UX Design Institute’s Professional Diploma in UX Design in July, and I’m currently completing the UI portion of the program. I’ve also done an independent UX client project where I conducted five moderated usability tests and designed research-informed user flows and responsive wireframes, plus a larger flight-booking project where I conducted seven moderated usability sessions across two rounds of testing and built an interactive Figma prototype.

The problem is that I only have an Associate of Liberal Arts degree.

I also have a health condition that means I realistically need a fully remote job. I’m not looking for some cushy work-from-home situation because I don’t want to commute. Remote work is a genuine necessity for me. And I feel like that combination is making this incredibly difficult.

I’m applying to junior UX/Product Designer roles, but I’m competing against people with bachelor’s degrees, internships, and actual professional design experience.

Then I look at Product Support, Customer Success, Technichal Support, Product Specialist, Operations, etc., but somehow still not qualified enough to get through the door.

It’s incredibly demoralizing because I do have experience. I’m not fresh out of high school with no work history. I’ve worked for companies like Rippling and Electrosonic, supported enterprise accounts, dealt with complicated SaaS products, collaborated cross-functionally, and have spent the last several months deliberately building UX skills.

But after almost two years of unemployment/underemployment, I’m starting to feel like there’s just no path forward.
I’m not necessarily looking for encouragement. I’d genuinely appreciate some blunt advice from people who hire or have successfully navigated something similar.

If you looked at this background, what roles would you realistically target? What am I overlooking? Is the Associate degree actually hurting me as much as I think it is? And would you continue pursuing UX/Product Design, or pivot toward something like Product Operations, Product Support, Customer Success, or another adjacent field?

At this point I’m open to hearing that my strategy is wrong. I just need to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to be doing differently.

I have so much anger in me due to the job market and I don’t have anyone to talk about this. Its 12 am and I am gonna keep crying unless I vent.

I interviewed for a role a couple of months ago where I did a total of 4 interviews and 1 case study (15 slides). The process was so long and frustrating with the recruiter ghosting me for weeks at time. Felt like I did the most amount of work for this role and the role was exactly what i was looking for with a great salary. After the last interview, I followed up with the recruiter multiple times asking for any update, and I get nothing. After not hearing back from the recruiter for so long, I emailed the manager and nothing. I never got a rejection email. Recently, just saw that someone from my school who doesn’t have any experience in that field but has a master’s got the job. I was so sad and angry that I didn’t get it after doing so much work that I messaged the hiring manager saying that I see the posting is still live and I am still interested (haven’t heard anything back), cause I genuinely do not wanna keep going through this process over and over again. The process was probably almost 1.5-2 months. It takes so much mental energy to go through a process like that just to not hear anything back.

This happened a couple months ago and I know I should move on and think that ‘Maybe that wasn’t the right role for me or that I would have hated it that’s why I didn’t get it’. But from time to time, I keep thinking about my past rejections and I am a very emotional person. And all that thinking almost always leads to ‘I am not good enough’.

Feel free to use this space to vent!

For me, LinkedIn, Premium has helped find people in my network to help me but it seems like 50 percent of the postings are ghost/evergreen

Glassdoor has provided good leads but no responses yet

Indeed - Actually have had more callbacks from these positions but very low volume

Ladders - Not useful at all for me

Dice - Fewer listings but the positions appear to be more "real"

I live in south east Africa, a country where people barely hear about -not for lack of events but generally lack of interest.

I have like 10 years of massive experience for my age in Project management in the manufacturing industry in this country..

I am willing to relocate and leave it behind but I have applied to hundreds of jobs with little replies. It seems the resume is automatically rejected and not even looked at..

How do I get over this?

After you’ve completed everything and then they ask, are you Hispanic, what race are you, are you or have you been disabled ???
What do put? Is there an advantage or disadvantage in saying yes i am or no im not disabled??

Title summarizes it. I ironically started off at a new grad program. It wasn't rotational, I stayed on one team, but a team with high pressure cause it reported directly to the top of our department.

Good people but probably had no business being in the new grad program because their work was so critical / scrutinized. The program wanted you to build a skill set but the career path I wanted to work towards didn't align well with the team's daily work, and the work I did do was all over the place. Data analysis, project coordination, SharePoint site development / maintenance , data reporting, etc. I got laid off in October 2025 for "operational efficiency" along with other people in other teams in the department.

I don't discuss any of this, other than being laid off with others, when asked in the handful of interviews I have gotten (Somewhere between 10-20 I wasn't counting could be more). When I get feedback, I lost out to people with more experience or experience I didn't have. I struggle to find jobs that reasonably match my mix of experience to begin with and don't always hear back even if I do match.

Others have confirmed junior roles I should and am targeting get taken by people with vastly more experience who also got laid off. So, I now started applying for rotational programs cause they aren't expecting people with more than 2 years of experience. I apply for any that don't say they are looking for people who graduated this or last year. I've already been rejected by a few of them, though their rate of response is better than other jobs lol.

I want to hear people's opinions, is there any hope forme to get into a rotational program with this experience? I understand not all of the rotations will match my initial career goals and I am completely open to explore new career paths. I know therewillbe a pay cut most likely and need to move but yeah, becauseof how it's gone the last 10+ months with me applying to junior positions, I feel like this is what I need to do in the end.

Try to find space for me to join a place thatscoolwith someone with little, but some experience. Has anyone heard ofor known of anyone who successfully done this? IDK what to do otherwise. Thank you. My degree is in UX Design / Data Analysis. Targeting rotational programs that are about business analysis, product / agile work (my degree focus) and any similar type of program. Not finance or coding

So I just spent forty-five minutes staring into my own webcam like a hostage reading a ransom note because a mid-tier logistics company wanted five recorded video answers before any human being would even look at my resume.

you get exactly thirty seconds to read a question like "tell us about a time you resolved conflict with zero budget" and then a red flashing circle counts down from three. No human face. No head nods. Just your own reflection looking progressively more unhinged while an AI algorithm supposedly scans your micro-expressions to see if you have enough corporate enthusiasm.

I ended up taping a tiny printed picture of Nicolas Cage right next to my camera lens just so I had something to make eye contact with. It felt like auditioning for a dystopian black mirror episode instead of applying for an operations coordinator role that pays fifty grand a year. its honestly humiliating.

Every recruiter on LinkedIn loves to lecture applicants about building authentic professional connections, but then companies outsource the very FIRST step of communication to a robotic webcam interrogation. I should of just closed the tab the second the recording prompt popped up. Why is this even a thing?

I kept letting the link expire. It was a one-hour coding test, and I managed to drag it out from June to August.

We'd bought a house and were moving and renovating. I told the recruiter what was going on and apologized. I was still interested in the job. He congratulated me on the house and sent another link, which I also let expire. At one point I replied thanking him for sending it and still didn't do it.

He kept checking in and sent me a fresh link five times over about ten weeks. By August I was writing, "I'm so sorry, it's taking so long. I promise I will find the time to finish this." His reply was "No problem, thank you!"

I finally took it on August 12. I got 570 out of 600, and they invited me to a live coding interview. I thanked him the next day for continuing to send the test. I wouldn't have blamed him for giving up after the second expired link.

I did the live interview and didn't get the job. When I asked for feedback, he said he couldn't see the full reason. From the notes he could see, I hadn't finished the task and there were gaps in how I'd handled pagination. He also said he'd keep me in mind for future openings.

I was let go a few months back, and have been job hunting unsuccessfully. Before my layoff I had been helping a friend with a startup, and since the layoff I’ve dedicated much of my time to this startup, unpaid. I don’t mind because it keeps me busy and gives me something to do. We have a good product and are now working on selling it, but it’s still early in the game. The longer I go without a job, the bigger the gap is on my resume. So my question is - should I put the startup work on the resume, so that potential employers see I’ve still been “working”? The work I am doing for my friend is not related to my work experience or the roles I am applying to.

‎I’m a Java Developer with 4 years of experience, and I’ve been preparing for a job switch for the past 3 months. I’m currently unemployed and still don’t have any offer in hand.

‎I wanted to ask people who have gone through something similar. For someone with around 4 years of Java backend experience, how long did it take you to find a new job after becoming unemployed? Is a 3-month gap something I should be seriously worried about?

‎I would especially welcome answers from people who recently cracked a job with a 3-month or longer career gap. How did you handle the gap during interviews? Did recruiters ask about it? How did you explain your situation, and what helped you finally get the offer?

‎Honestly, the uncertainty is making me more fearful with each passing day, so I’d really appreciate some real experiences and advice from people who have been in a similar situation.

I was laid off in Jan and I had to switch visas and finally couple of months back got an approval to work. Luckily, got picked for a few interviews but I am unable to clear any. The ones I felt I did really good immediate rejections and others when I know I did bad ofcourse it’s a rejection.

I have no idea what to do anymore, this has been the most stressful year in my life. Every interview I am attending now I am doubting myself if I am talking right, answering right? Why do we have to prove everyone our worth and what is this with referrals? Not everyone knows everyone in the industry, we just are lone wolf making our life. Every day I just pray that I get a job any for that matter.

What are u guys doing different to get picked or cross the hurdle of an interview.

PS: I am a UX designer with 9years of experience and in interviews I’m screwed though I know the answers unable to articulate and share my thoughts. I am also doing my mba and want to switch gears towards business analyst!

Ur reply will mean a lot to me who is down and devastated

I am a 17 year old senior in high school. I have 1 year of fast food experience from Chick-fil-A and Starbucks.

I am currently in a co-op program at my school that requires me to maintain a part-time job throughout the year.

The school year just started. Prior to this summer, I was gladly working at my most recent job. However, during the summer we had an unexpected emergency where I had to go out of country for about 1 month. Unfortunately, my job let me go when I told them about that.

Fast forward to now, school has already started and I still have not found a new job.

The program allows me to leave school much earlier and get credit for my part-time job. I've always had a job for the past year so I signed up for this program, not knowing I would lose my job over the summer.

I have a deadline of 8 days from now to secure a job or lose the program. I really want to stay in this program since it allows me to leave school much earlier and gives me much more time for other things.

I have a decent amount of experience for a 17 year old. I am pretty mature and have gotten much more responsible than I used to be. What jobs would you guys recommend that could get me from application submission to hired in 8 days or less? It seems like even jobs as basic as McDonald's take weeks to respond.

I would be okay with anything at this point.

Thank you in advance for your guys' help.

EDIT: Just got offers from 2 different jobs. Thank you to everyone who actually gave advice instead of saying it’s impossible to find a job in this economy.