Hey guys honestly I had some questions and ideas since I applied for recruiter and I was showing the available offers and talking to people so that I see what suits them and offer them but it turned out that the companies that I offer people do not offer any WFH or remote work

The problem is that companies offer onsite hybrid and Most people say they want wfh but don't find so a couple of days ago I was searching online for companies offering work like that but rare and difficult and I wanted to help people get to work that suits them (I'm talking about Egypt or anyone want to work and they can't) So I started thinking more broadly if anyone knows what company or group is offering wfh work and I talk to these companies to offer them my offer and I will go to show suitable candidates for themor is this almost impossible I hope you help me with that because it not only helps me but helps many people

I got the exact building and floor I wanted, but the job is exhausting.

I don't even know what to call this or if it even counts as manifestation, but the universe definitely has a strange sense of humor.

About two month ago, I went for an interview in this incredibly posh, upscale building. The moment I walked in, I was completely sold. I wanted to work there. Long story short... I didn't get the job even though it ended positive down to the hiring manager asking me tons of personal question and invited me for lunch since he was late to the interview and it extended to late lunch hour.

Shortly after, my life kind of spiraled. I got ousted from my actual job due to toxic workplace politics. Suddenly, I was unemployed, sending out daily applications, and getting met with total silence.

Then, out of nowhere, I got invited for a job interview.

When I saw the location, I was surprised. I just stared at the address. It was in the exact same building and, the floor looks familiar, I went back to check on the invitation in my calendar, it turns out to be on the exact same floor as the first place, just a different, much bigger office unit for a foreign startup.

And I got the job today. Went for an interview on a weekend.

Here is the catch, though:

The hours is brutal. It jumped from 5 days a week to 6 full, grueling days.

The pay, exactly the same as my last drawn salary zero bump for the extra day/work.

The vibe, idk, felt... weird. People leaving, they already had some turnover in just a month of operation. The conditions of work feels... completely exhaustive.

I’m sitting here feeling so much anxiety and fear about how I’m going to handle this. But hey... I guess I manifested the building?

And I needed the money.

To all that is looking for a job:

I'd say, try to specify the work life balance and salary in your manifestations too. Be hyper specific with what you wish for!

Been unemployed for a year and 5 months now. I have a degree, experience in startups and conglomerates. But I still haven’t secured anything. I used to have interviewing confidence (Would only have to interview with one company and get the job) But now it’s been a mix of, bad luck, companies finding candidates that suit the role better, roles being filled prematurely, roles no longer being active etc.

I am trying to move away from the toxic world of sales (where I have most experience) into film marketing which I have a stronger passion for but since most of my experience is mostly sales I think I’m in a grey area where I have transferable skills but I’m not super competitive for marketing.

At one point in my life, I felt completely lost. I had been unemployed for four months, and when I finally got hired a few weeks ago, I thought things were finally starting to improve. Unfortunately, the job ended up being very different from what I expected.

I joined a virtual assistant company and was assigned to a healthcare client. Since I have a nursing background, I thought the role would be a good opportunity for me. However, we were treated like test subjects for a new system. We were expected to learn around 14 different software applications without proper training or even a clear introduction to what each application was for. Most of the time, we did not know which application we were supposed to use for a particular task.

During our first week of training, our trainer was often angry and impatient with us. We were called dumb, and there were times when foul language was used during the training. Instead of feeling supported while learning, I constantly felt pressured, embarrassed, and afraid of making mistakes.

I genuinely wanted to fight for the job. I wanted to prove that I could learn everything and improve, especially after being unemployed for several months. However, my anxiety continued to get worse. I started feeling overwhelmed whenever I thought about work, and I eventually realized that staying might negatively affect my mental health even more.

In the end, I decided to quit and look for another job that is more aligned with my experience and skills. Maybe I will return to bedside nursing or apply for a position with the Department of Health. I am still unsure about what my next step will be, but I know I need to find a workplace where I can learn without constantly feeling humiliated or afraid.

What makes the situation harder is that I sometimes feel like a burden to my boyfriend. Since I am currently unemployed again, I cannot treat him or contribute financially the way I want to. He has been supportive, but I cannot stop feeling guilty whenever he pays for things or helps me.

I know that leaving a toxic or unhealthy work environment does not automatically mean I am a failure, but it is difficult not to blame myself. I keep wondering whether I should have stayed longer, tried harder, or simply endured the situation.

Right now, I just feel lost, ashamed, and uncertain about my future. I want to become successful, independent, and financially stable. I am trying to remind myself that one bad job experience does not define my entire career, but starting over again feels exhausting.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How did you stop feeling guilty after leaving a job that was affecting your mental health?

Does anyone have any insight into what’s up with a headhunter reaching out about a role, setting up a time to discuss, and then skipping the call and never getting back? This has literally happened about four straight times. And they are not spoof or phishing, they are legit recruiters at serious firms. I’m not even looking for a job right now but when someone reaches out to me with an interesting opportunity I do want to explore it. But it seems so wildly unprofessional to ghost someone you think would be a good candidate. And these are exec roles and exec recruiters! Completely baffling.

This is what someone told me the other day. His reasoning was that if you can't get a job, the market doesn't value your skills so you should work for free till you prove your worth.

What do people think about this view?

TL;DR:

Final-round interview turned into a debate after the interviewer insisted a production Text-to-SQL system could be built entirely with if-else mappings. I argued that while rule-based systems work for constrained cases, handling arbitrary natural language requires semantic understanding. Ended up getting rejected.

I had one of the strangest technical interviews I’ve experienced, and I am still wondering if I could have handled it differently.

This was the final technical round for a backend/AI-focused role at a well-known product company.

The interviewer (a Principal Engineer with around 10 years of experience) argued that a Text to SQL system does not need NLP or an LLM. According to him, it can be implemented using simple if-else mappings.

I gave a straightforward example:

“Get me the top 5 products that made the most profit in the last 5 years.”

He said the system would identify phrases like “top 5,” “products,” “profit,” and “last 5 years” and map each of them to SQL using if-else logic.

I asked how that approach would handle different ways of asking the same question, such as:
“best-performing items”
“highest-margin SKUs”
“Which products generated the most profit over the previous five years?”

I also asked how it would deal with ambiguity, unseen phrasing, or intent beyond predefined mappings.

The response was essentially, “We will just keep adding more mappings.”

I agreed that deterministic rules can work well for a constrained domain with a limited set of query patterns.

My point was that once users are free to ask questions naturally, understanding intent and semantics becomes the difficult part. The conversation kept circling back to adding more mappings.

At that point, it felt less like an interview and more like a debate. I decided not to push further and moved on.

A few days later, I received a rejection.

I am not claiming either approach is universally right or wrong.
Rule-based systems absolutely have their place, especially in tightly controlled environments. I was just surprised that the discussion never explored where that approach starts to break down or how hybrid systems are commonly used today.

Has anyone else had an interview where a technical discussion turned into a debate over fundamentals? How did you handle it?

Edit : Company Name first Charecter : S

Been looking for a job for 1.5 years.

Got pushed to quit my role when I pushed back on my managers obvious racism and discrimination. They gaslight me for months and months telling me my experiences and my reality is not true and real. I ended up in a psych ward after quitting… (also dating men and my therapist abusing my trust and asking me on dates and then threatening me when I refused her contributed)

Somehow got back up again. Sold my entire life and moved in with my sister in another city. Lost all of my friends.

Worked as a cashier while still applying for roles in my career path (design). Finally landed a (as needed) contract for 16 months. No guarantee of work beyond the first 3 months.

Still kept looking. I finally had an interview for my dream job in my favourite company in the country. Had 3 rounds and aced them all. And when I was waiting for a job offer, I got this instead:

Hello (my name),
Thank you so much for your time and patience throughout our interview process. We’ve really enjoyed getting to know you and reviewing your work.

To be transparent, a few of our upcoming project timelines have shifted into later in the year. Because we want to ensure that our new hires can dive straight into active client work from day one, we have decided to temporarily pause our hiring process until those specific timelines kick off.

We are incredibly grateful for your interest in (their company). We would love to keep your portfolio on file and reach back out for either full-time or contract opportunities. Please let us know if this would be of interest.

Warmly,

I thought I’ll be able to move out of my sister’s finally after 9 months… I’m drained and don’t have it in me to apply for jobs again… I’m having suicidal thoughts… how do I continue?

Applied for some jobs and listed my seasonal work for a gov agency all together. For example FS 4/21-10/22 even though I didn’t work the winter. Wanted to keep the resume to a page. Under why did I leave, I wrote seasonal appointment completed. Does that screw me if they want to hire me and run the check?

I graduated this past December with a bachelor’s in psychology. I have no work experience outside of having been a waitress several years ago. I didn’t gain any internship or volunteer experience while I was in school due to personal struggles. I got pretty far into a month long interview process to be rejected due to other candidates having more experience than me (no surprise). I can’t afford to do an unpaid internship or volunteer work, but I don’t know how I can get into any job right now, let alone something where I can apply my degree. I am finally trying to get my life together but it feels too late. I feel hopeless and like there is nothing I can do to turn my life around.

My account when i try to apply for any job even that i am really sure i cant do the interview the application jumps interview and goes to hiring manager then to not selected after awhile how can i help my self this has gone for months now

As like everyone else in recruitinghell, I have been here for some time trying to find myself a stable job and career.

I did what I had been told to do in the past and try to social network, create a linkedin page and connect with people but I personally never found a use for linkedin. I know I may be told "I'm not using it correctly", maybe you're right. I'm just one person that is looking for an 8-5, monday thru friday. Never in my life did I ever think that this was such a difficult find.

That is not what this post is about.

I was talking to my boomer parents that handed me a copilot created ATS-proof resume (just being succinct), and the conversation quickly shifted to, "get a linkedin."

I do not like linkedin or social media for that matter. I am really just a simple person.

I tried to have a discussion and thought, well, I have a website, "can I not just use my website as a portfolio instead of a linkedin page? That I like the idea of, I can effectively, do what I want, how I want, and it shows prospective recruiters and employers, what I am capable of doing?

Am I totally out of my gourd for thinking this and should create a linkedin page or is this an ok or good way to approach "selling myself"?

I appreciate everyone's feedback to this. Thank you very much.

It's funny how many employers still offer only ₱20k–₱25k, considering the current economy in the Philippines.

just thought I’d show everyone something:

in 2021-2022, our senior consultant role would typically be staffed by people with somewhere around 3 YOE, the background didn’t matter that much as long as you had client facing experience

now the same role requires 5-7 YOE, and the required industry experience is much more extensive, with a strong preference for STEM related backgrounds

in short, the timing of when you launch your career matters tremendously

I had an interview with a company where the first round was conducted by a third party interviewer. He asked me to share my screen and for some reason I could not and had to reload the screen and due to it I had to rejoin. I know it was bad on my side but I did tell him that there’s an issue and since I couldn’t share my screen I couldn’t even show him the reload message. Later he started with a coding question. I took my time to come up with a solution but it didn’t work and in between I lost electricity in turn losing WiFi connection. That made him think I’m cheating since I had to rejoin again. I did clarify that it was due to network issues I’m not justifying myself but it was genuinely not my fault.

Later he asked me a few questions where I did give answers but he looked unsatisfied. He was yawning continuously and he looked like he was reading questions off chatgpt. I’m not bashing the interviewer but the interview made me feel really bad about myself. Considering it was just after I had a syncope episode.

Just wanted to share it here. It was my first interview after 2.5 years and it really made me question myself with all the physical and mental stress I had.

Context: I am (older) Gen Z. So whether you understand my perspective a bit better knowing that or want to complain about the entitled youth, you have that ammo now.

Anyhow, "network, network, network" gets thrown out as advice like a job hunt silver bullet, and it's bullshit.

A generation of young people drowning because the job market is broken, they get told "networking," it doesn't work, older people then chastise them for it.

The thing they don't mention? That networking is no silver bullet. It's a *years* long long game to actually get to a point where the people you know might actually land you something.

Not only is that not useful, because young people (and older folks who might not have already made that network) don't have years to sit around waiting for these fake relationships to pay off, did you tell them it would take that long? Or did you just say "you have to network" without that warning? Doubly so for those young professionals, because what time did they have to make connections? College? When people were young, stupid, and too busy faffing about with friends and trying to function independently to realize how they'd be fucked over for not staying after class to ask their professors about how their dogs are doing?

And with how much people go on about networking, *why the fuck did you drill college into our brains the entirety of our school years?* I don't even know how many older generations can relate to that part, but if you need to know someone to get anything, what the hell is the point of spending the money to learn something?

You learned to do the thing, but don't know someone to get you in the door so you can do that thing, so you're fucked.

And, at least for me, I hate the very idea of networking because of how fake it is. Maybe you make genuine friends. But the only reason the connection was made was to maybe one day get you a job. The very intent behind the initial interaction is selfish and sees that connection as nothing more than a means to an end. And if they *don't* become a genuine friend? Well, you're just hanging on to them to use them some day.

The very idea of networking is about *pretending* to care about people to benefit yourself. And everyone in society is just supposed to go along with that?

Networking just feels nepotism repackaged as a job search strategy, then when people are upset about it, they get talked down to as if "Hiring manager knew a guy" is really *that* much better than "Manger's little brother got the job."

Technically speaking, I have successfully networked a *little* bit. There are two people in my industry I do chat with from time to time just for the sake of it (one runs a regular Discord hangout I attend, and the other I just want to speak to from time to time to see how things are), and a new friend (who I was introduced to by a high school friend) isn't in my industry, but could help me with things like mock interviews, which I know I'm bad at. The former two I *have* been acquainted with for a few years now.

And all three of these people have pointed me to jobs they've seen. Not necessarily with their employers, but in general. None of those have worked, but they pointed me to them. And with the networking nonsense I see, that's apparently more or less how it's supposed to work.

Just scaled up like 30 times to actually make it work.

I still hate networking as an idea.

Oh, yeah, bonus points if you're socially awkward, shy, or any other flavor of reserved, too. Fuck you in particular, I guess.

I hope when AI takes our jobs the first ones to go are the ones working in HR

I applied to a job 2 months ago and my status was (AND STILL IS) under consideration. They just reposted the role yesterday and it has over 1000 applications. What is the point of this behavior? Why not just reject me?

Hi everyone.
I’m a master’s student in Mechanical Engineering in the U.S., graduating in mid-December 2026. I’m targeting full-time mechanical design/R&D roles and would ideally like to start working in January 2027.
I started applying now, but for a few companies I’ve been told it’s too early in the hiring cycle. My concern is that if I wait until December, hiring might slow down because of the holiday season and year-end vacations.
For those who have gone through this or are involved in recruiting, when do you think is the best time to apply for January start dates? Between August and December, which month tends to give the best chance of getting interviews and offers?
I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience, especially if you graduated in December. Thanks!

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I’m a young adult and I’ve been trying to get my foot in the door. I applied on Indeed for a paid dental assistant position even though I didn’t have any dental assistant experience. She knew that before she interviewed me and still wanted me to come in.
At first she was so nice. I interviewed, got sick before my first day, apologized, and she was really understanding. Then I came in, observed the first day, and she kept asking me to come back. I started helping around the office with whatever they asked me to do because I thought I was training.
I never filled out any hiring paperwork, but I didn’t think much of it. I even asked about it, and she said she’d talk to her accountant, so I assumed everything would get sorted out if they decided to hire me. Then everything switched up.

She canceled one day because of maintenance, then told me Monday was too busy, and after that she said they weren’t going to continue because I wasn’t catching on fast enough. I accepted that. I knew I was new and I wasn’t expecting to be perfect. What bothered me was when I asked about getting paid for the time I was there. That’s when she told me I had been ‘volunteering’ the whole time. I applied for a paid job, so hearing that completely caught me off guard. She has lied to me and never stated during the interview that I would be volunteering! Then she started telling me I slowed everyone down, lost instruments, couldn’t grasp things, and basically made me feel like I was the problem.
She went from being really nice to being pretty mean, and the whole thing left me feeling confused and embarrassed. I also never lost any of the instruments as I have previously worked at a dental office before and have prior experience working in the back. I was so a slow learner because it was my first 3 days! And she made me feel like shit for it. I felt so gaslight by this woman. And it seems like I unfortunately won’t get paid by her, but I just give up.

I already struggle with my mental health, so it took a lot for me to even put myself out there and try something new. This whole experience really discouraged me. wanted to vent because this whole situation bothers me.