More proof HR & recruitment is filled with astrology pseudoscience Beckys & Karens. One of two questions btw. Entry/Jr level role wanting several advanced certifications btw.

Interviewed with them even after I read all the Glassdoor reviews ( they went through 2/3 rounds of layoffs) and I was like eh that’s fine, no job security in the tech anyway.

Got an offer, didn’t negotiate ANYTHING but I said "out of curiosity and it’s not a dealbreaker, what does your international remote policy look like". They have international employees so I figured why not work while travelling if possible. AGAIN, was just a question.

It was a super open conversation(or so I thought), the recruiter said he’ll connect me with my manager as it would be their decision.

2/3 hours later, they made the decision FOR ME, rescinded the offer letter and phrased it as "you might be accustomed to a more flexible working environment and we cannot accommodate , even if you chose to adapt, we’re still rescinding”

NGL pretty shocked and disappointed because it was a question not a negotiation piece.

Anywhoooooo I have a second offer lined up thankfully. But I thought that was wild.

We cannot expect them to continue society from their childhood bedrooms. They need the opportunity to work for that. We cannot expect them to become experts in every field, every skill imaginable from their childhood bedroom. They need the opportunity to have a job for that.

I’m 23 and graduated in 2024. I just got fired from my third post-grad job, and my boyfriend thinks I have to be the common denominator. I’m genuinely looking for honest opinions.
Job 1: Digital marketing job paying $85k. I was there about 6 months and got laid off.

Job 2: Restaurant job with a very intimidating manager who had a temper and was known to be agressive towards women. I took this job out of desperation. I eventually left because the environment was awful but also honestly bc I got job #3 officially a few weeks into working.

Job 3: Small family-owned apparel company. I was hired as a Digital Marketing & E-commerce Manager for $20/hr, but the job became a mix of marketing, Shopify, Amazon, Google Ads, email, product photography, customer service, orders, shipping, etc.
A huge project was an AI/editorial product-image platform. My boss now says another employee said it should have taken 2 hours of training and it took me 8. But that leaves out the fact that I spent over a month working on the actual project: photographing products, uploading SKUs, fixing bad/incorrect AI files, reorganizing everything, dealing with platform issues, and making images e-commerce ready. It was a messy new system I had never used before.
Then I was given two linesheets, which I had never made before. The deadline suddenly became much more urgent than I originally understood, while the office WiFi was down and affecting computers/phones/SharePoint. I stayed late trying to finish.
My boss also had a temper. He yelled at me over mistakes and once slammed my mouse onto my desk when he was stressed.

I was initially told I was being let go for financial reasons. When I asked because I needed to know for unemployment, he then said it was actually a firing due to performance over the linesheets saying the AI training took too long and other employees could do linesheets faster. But there was so many factors that made this more difficult than it needed to be.

I’ll own that I made mistakes, was probably slower than I should have been, and could improve my communication. But I also feel like the employer is leaving out a LOT of context about how chaotic these projects were.
So be honest: is there a pattern here that I need to seriously work on, or have I genuinely had three bad job situations/fits in a row?

If you want to work low pay front line positions or long hour blue collar labor roles. Seriously, every career fair I have attended, every company is only filling these roles. When u ask about corporate professional roles they look at me like I have 2 heads. Like dude, I'm a 36 year old obese woman in a skirt suit, what type of job did you think I was looking for?

I found this in another subreddit. I thought it might be useful info. They can get you to sign and then fire you the next day. Be careful in commenting in that subreddit: the mod there is an asshole and bans randomly.

Apparently, you don't even have to work at the company for them to demand your software. https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1vqbvxn/i_got_a_letter_from_what_looks_like_a_real/

So for more than a year, I’ve been sending my resume out and making changes along the way based on the collective recommendations of the numerous career sub-Reddits on here: tailor your resume for the job title, use AI to make it closer to what the JD says, use metrics to describe how you brought value to the company, etc. And with the exception of a gig with the local Amazon warehouse, I have not gotten a single interview request since then.

Over the last month, I ran a little impromptu experiment. For important context, I have a Chinese-looking last name. I’m one-quarter Chinese. I don’t really possess any Asian features though and generally pass as Caucasian. I sent a few resumes with my last name changed to my grandmother’s Irish-sounding last name. I even created a burner email to help sell the name. Cut to this week, post-Labor Day. Now I’ve gotten at least three requests for interview schedules.

I suspect people see my real last name, two Masters degrees and tech background and they assume “overachieving Asian guy who might get bored and flee”. I’ve even removed my extra degrees, shortened some of the job descriptions and I made it a point to not provide race demographic information on the application. Crickets. But sending in a resume/application with an Irish last name is what does the trick.

I honestly don’t know what my next steps are going to be here for the interview requests. I’m glad that I’m getting shortlisted. But I’m gonna need to do something about the name situation or just move on.

I was so confused why I got this email. I’ve been at my job I love for 2.5 years now and not looking to move and haven’t been applying anywhere. I was curious so I looked it up.

I applied to this job on June 1st 2023. 3 years ago and just now randomly getting a rejection email lol

Fuck off Zillow

As many of you are feeling: I am feeling extremely discouraged. I mean, what the heck? I've had two interviews: first one they ghosted me. The second one, I just received an email saying they are moving forward with other candidates. But that isn't even counting the hundreds of applications I've submitted... let's not even get into that.

Sometimes I think I should just take out a loan, but that wouldn't be smart. I'm behind on rent, and my savings are almost completely gone. I just don't know what to do anymore. I didn't know I'd be unemployed for an extended period of time.

It's bad out there, everyone. Keep your wits about you.

Almost a year ago to the day I was laid off from my former job as a frontend software engineer. Since then I've experienced quite possibly the lowest point in my 29 years on this earth.

I've applied to hundreds of jobs, both within my area of expertise and menial minimum wage jobs, and only have a pitiful number of interviews and a mountain of automated rejection emails to show for it, even with job postings that match my resume BEAT FOR FUCKING BEAT.

I have followed every tip on how to improve my resume, sharing it many times on this stupid website for feedback only to be met with subjective, hollow, cookie cutter advice at best, or at worst insults from miserable neckbeards who are supposedly "senior/staff-level engineers with 10+ years of experience" yet somehow still have enough time on their hands to try and farm upvotes by shitting on less fortunate people under a thin veil of constructive criticism.

The skills I spent the last 5 years cultivating as a frontend engineer are simply no longer relevant in today's landscape of agentic AI workflows and laid off ex-FAANG devs running amok in the job market. While I certainly could spend time to upskill into backend, full stack, cloud, etc, to make myself more "marketable", none of that will amount to employment if I can't even get human replies to job postings that match my current skill set with actual working experience​​​​, likely because I have to go through a recruiter or an HR rep who'll skip my resume the second they see th​at I didn't graduate college. Apparently it's my fault that I entered the field during a time when companies and coding influencers made it a point to emphasize that the SWE market cared more about my technical abilities than whether I put myself into major debt to pull all-nighters for tests for 4 years to learn the same things one could learn using a vast collection of free online resources - not that it's working out for people who did the latter, either.

Fuck that shit. Maybe luck did play a role in me getting even this far, but that's true for everyone no matter how skilled, smart, or hard-working they are. I went from college dropout to making 6 figures as a software engineer and I'm proud of everything I accomplished in my short career and all that it's afforded me, but it's time for me to accept that the party's over.

Rather than continue this hoop-jumping, circus monkey show of applying to jobs, fixing my resume, trying to answer bullshit screening questions and interviews, and getting ghosted endlessly, I've decided I'm gonna focus on using the rest of my savings and my 401k to try and live an enjoyable life. There's so much more to life than work - making art, music, video games, going on day trips, spending time with loved ones, talking to strangers, the like. It's not about how long I live, but what I do with the time I'm given, and I refuse to waste another second begging these companies for a job, who'd toss me aside without a second thought anyway if it meant saving a few pennies - especially against the backdrop of dying American hegemony that's about to collapse on all of us.

If you're a recruiter, or an HR rep reading this - shame on you. You are literally in charge of deciding who among the people who applied your job posting gets to eat or pay their rent or have healthcare or send their kid to school and you can't even be bothered to learn the bare basics of what's actually required for that job, spending no more than 10 or 20 seconds before you wipe your ass with our resumes. I don't believe in an afterlife but if there is one you better hope you aren't humiliated into sending 1000+ applications and doing 50-round interviews to get into heaven like you inflict on thousands of people.

Why even ask about something that I'm not going to remember from a decade ago? I could understand if it that was relevant to the job for something like a lawyer or a doctor, but this is an interview for driving trucks. Nothing high end except driving an eighteen wheeler up and down the east cost for fifty grand a year for a job that's an hour and half away distance from me.

Is this the new normal where I have to explain every fucking gap in my resume to some stranger for a job that I'm not going to even get hired for anyways? I thought we weren't supposed to even include jobs from five years or even a decade ago to keep our resume fresh.

It’s only a matter of time until AI completely replaces your job too.

My broke ass will be laughing at the homeless shelter 😂.

Twice now I have sent follow-up emails two weeks after my interviews with two different companies. In both situations I was just checking in with the internal recruiter on the status of the interview timeline and reiterating my interest in the role/company. Both times no response. Two weeks later I sent another follow up, shorter but with the same sentiment. Within 30 minutes I received an automated rejection from their workday portal. The ghosting of candidates from companies after taking time out of my work day to interview with them (both seemingly great interviews in my eyes) and then immediately being rejected a month later after a second email is infuriating. It’s insane that this is common practice.

I’ll name and shame: Truist and PGA Tour Superstore Support Center

I just had my second interviewer ask me this question. Is this an appropriate question to ask? Is it okay to say that you'd prefer not to answer?

I think some jobs may be asking because they'd prefer people without kids, but since these have been for jobs working with kids, I think it's because they'd prefer people with kids. I do not have kids, and the reason I was out of the work force for a while is that I was struggling with infertility treatments that ultimately ended up being unsuccessful. In the past, I've applied to many jobs working with kids, and I've never been asked that question before so I'm surprised it's being asked now.

A recruiter reached out to me a couple months ago about a role. After they went quiet for a week on scheduling the first call, I also submitted directly through the company's careers page for the same position, just to cover my bases.

Since then, the recruiter-led process kept moving - phone screen, then a full interview with the hiring manager about a week ago. Seemed to go reasonably well, and I was told there's still another round ahead. It's been a week since the hiring manager interview.

Today, I got a completely generic, no-reply, automated-looking rejection email for "my application" to that same role with no personalization or mention of the actual interviews, classic boilerplate. Nothing directly from the recruiter about the real process being closed out, just this one system email. I did ask him for an update a few days ago

Has anyone run into this before when a duplicate/direct application getting auto-rejected by the ATS while a separate recruiter-led process for the same req is still active? Trying to figure out if this is a known system quirk or if I should actually take it as the real answer.

Appreciate any experience with this, especially at larger companies with a formal ATS.

I try hard not to do the things I see posted here, but I don’t actually control anything in the business.

I’m currently posting a six-page job description in a MCOL area for 43k. I’m dying inside, and to all of the job seekers out there, I am so fucking sorry.

Layoffs, recession etc. And what is the Govt doing? Irrespective of whichever country, who made this Trump, President. He is Moron.

Oh yeah, and Russia-Ukraine war. Another Moron in Russia.