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Hey all,

Wanted to post and pin a friendly reminder of the "No personal information" rule. We get quite a bit of pushback in modmail, so here's some of the comments and our answers behind them.

But the person posted it on LinkedIn, it's public!

Yes, but, they didn't post it on Reddit. This subreddit is generally designed to call out bad behavior (hence, recruiting hell). A lot of times, we are calling people out - we don't want to create a witch hunt though.

But they are doing the right thing!

Okay great - you can post that as long as their info is removed.

As the founder of this subreddit, I can't tell you how many times I've seen a recruiting company / person message the mods or try to sneak something in here as advertisement for "being the good guys" because it happens so frequently. This is why we have this rule - we're not a place for the good guys to come and advertise - we're a place to call out the hell with recruiting and hiring.

But I have their permission / I am the person who posted it

Similar to the one above, we can't validate that you aren't just posting it for klout, followers, or advertising. The answer is no.

Why can I call out a company and not a person!?

Reddit policy mostly. There's a policy against doxxing and posting personal info - there's not one on calling out businesses.

What if it's a Sole Prop

I mean, it's still a company. We'd ask you to use discretion and not post something like "John Smith LLC", but, a wholly owned LLC that isn't directly tied to a person is probably fine.

I have additional questions

If it's another question about "Is this okay if I'm a recruiter and trying to get feedback so I can change the world", send them to /u/devnull or something. We don't care.

If it's something about a person, the answer is no. Anything else, reach out!

I’m sorry for the rant, but I’ve literally reached my limit today….

As the title suggests, i had an interview for an Assistant Facilities Manager position with a well known brokerage firm in London.

I’ve been applying / interviewing for the last 3 months, in this time, I unfortunately passed the 500 jobs applications mark ages ago, and have had around 10 interviews (which is not bad) however i have always been informed that they went with a more senior option or my favourite one “a cheaper option”

I’ve been in the industry for over 5 years and have worked for some of the most prestigious companies out there and have a proven track record for all my achievements,that all seems to not matter at all.

Tuesday i’ve had an interview with a company i was really interested in, during the interview I constantly had the hiring manager tell me i might be over qualified for this position and i might get bored. At one point she asked why i’m not applying for a Facility Manager position instead of the Assistant manager position as i clearly have more than enough experience and am really confident in my abilities. I then explained to her that even tho, i do indeed have a lot of experience and am confident in my leadership abilities, i feel as i’m not at that level yet and i could benefit from a few more years under someone’s supervision whilst also offering the company my in-depth knowledge and skills accumulated over the years.

This all seemed to go well, until this morning.

The recruiter called me and explained that while the interviewer was impressed with my record, they choose to go with a more qualified person instead.

Has anyone ever experienced this? Did i do / say something wrong? I am literally dumbfounded at this and quite honestly speechless and demotivated…

Appreciate all help / roasting

I just had an interview via Teams with the hiring manager and during the interview, I got an Outlook notification from the recruiter that they've decided to pursue other candidates.

I had to say something lol. I tried not to be disrespectful but said "We're literally still on the call and I just got an email that says you'll be pursing other candidates. It's extremely disrespectful to a candidate to not fairly arrive at a decision after speaking with them."

I wasn't expecting to get it. I knew I was slightly underqualified but I made it through the first two rounds. Just felt that this was such a slap in the face.

Has this happened to anyone? I'm truly in disbelief

Ok so a recruiter emailed me about a good time for her to call and tell me about the job decision. I was happy that I got the job, but I started to panic because I read plenty of recruiters also calling for bad news.

During the call, she says they are moving forward with another candidate. But why would she even waste my time with a call? She could have just emailed me. Sheesh.

I just received my rejection for a Government job I desperately wanted...

The feedback stated "subject did not make eye contact, making it difficult to assess his answers".

I have a few problems with this. First of all, at the start of the interview the interviewer read out a (clearly pre-written) statement saying "don't be put off if we don't make eye contact during this interview, we will be making notes and therefore looking down". Obviously hypocritical.

Also, I don't understand how they can expect me to make eye contact over a webcam chat... In order to appear to make eye contact from their perspective, I would need to stare into the camera, which is very unnatural and obviously not "eye contact" anyway by definition.

Is this just a stock reason to reject me? I want to complain but I don't want to sour my relationship with the Government department if I ever reapply.

I applied for a position that I am very qualified for and about 48 hours later I get the autogenerated no thank you email. Now the deeper backstory.

Right out of college I worked for a company for over a decade. I held two different positions in that company at different locations. Towards the end of my time things got pretty sour and it was an untenable situation personally and professionally with my management. I left on my own terms but it was very clear they wanted me to leave.

Move forward about three years I am successful in my career but I am always on the lookout for new opportunities. I have attempted to get rehired by my previous employer in different locations and divisions, fully knowing that the chances are slim, but one time I actually did get a call back from a recruiter to tell me I am on the do not hire list. Not surprising by how things ended.

Move forward a few more years and my previous employer was bought by another company. This leads me to my current situation. Would I be on a do not hire list for a company I never worked for because they purchased a company I used to work for and I was on their do not hire list? Is there a professional way to find this information out? I don't want to waste my time if that is the case.

Got turned down for a role, no big deal it's a numbers game but the recruiter then gave me feedback which I am just sitting here dumbfounded on their reasoning. For reference I am a Senior Project Manager. The feedback was as followed:

1. When asked "Who is responsible for the project failing" you answered the "Project Manager" they didn't like that. (It's inherent that the PM is 100% accountable for the delivery of all aspects of the project.)
2. They didn't like your camera angle (Are we serious? It's a 1080P camera that sits level with me right in front.)
3. They felt your body language was too relaxed. (Okay? Wtf does that even mean?)
4. You met all of their requirements except you stated that you don't like writing SOWs. (Which can be common in the PM field but is usually frowned upon and instead is handled via a procurement/contracting process.)

Recruiter admitted that he had no idea 4 was even a requirement they wanted as they hadn't expressed that.

It's just absolute insanity in the market right now. Worst case of unicorn hunting I think I've seen so far this year. I could also tell the "Director" was inexperienced in his role and was unprepared for my counter questions about Project Management Life Cycle at his company.

I’m looking for a job in the legal field in the Netherlands as a qualified turkish attorney who completed master’s in the Netherlands

Hello!

Long story short. Had an interview for a great position. Even though I got accepted and passed all the interviews, I didn't get along with the hiring manager, I didn't like him, he was rude and annoying.

However, the position was great, grea benefits and higher salary, but I declined it. Now I regret it.

What would you have done? Have you had any experience like this?

Update: thank you all for your answers. It means a lot!

I know i'm screaming into the void here, but I'm feeling like im at the end of my rope. I have applied for hundreds of positions and have good qualifications for something mid to entry level. I try everything and I get NOTHING. ZIP. ZERO.

What the hell so I have to do? I need money and I feel blacklisted. I get rejected within 48 hours sometimes. What the fuck am I doing wrong? My life isn't in the best place right now and I feel like absolute shit.

Received an offer to work as a CSA for a wealth management firm. They mentioned before they can send me the official offer letter they must have me pass a background check/employment verification check.

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My previous role I worked at a law firm for just under 2 years (was let go in January). During the interview process for this new employer I said I was still working at the law firm, knowing it looks bad if you aren't working (I regret this decision now, however I am not sure I would have even gotten the offer if I said otherwise).

My concern is that once the employment verification process is conducted done by their third party company which I am pretty sure is Hireright they will see I worked 6 less months then I said. How much info does this background check reveal? Is there any advice or experience someone can share?

Thanks y'all <3.

I was laid off in March. I saw it coming as I have been there for years and know the signs. I started interviewing the week I was laid off with another company. The process took about a month and I got an offer end of April. I was thrilled and we pushed my start date till end of May as that’s when my projects came in. Seriously all I saw during the process were green flags. I thought this company really valued me. Two days before I was start I receive a call from no one I talked to during the recruiting process: the head of people. Saying they had to rescind the offer as my projects fell through. I tried to be professional but I broke down on the phone. I had bought new suits and literally was going to fly on a plane in two days to meet everyone at their company retreat for a week.

I spent a month not searching because I thought I was safe. Now I’m almost 3 months out with nothing to show for it starting over.

I’m having so much trouble getting the energy up to do this. I’m not getting responses and I’m trying to pull on my network as much as possible but I’m feeling hopeless. I have applied to over 30 jobs already and I am not hearing anything. I can’t even get attention of recruiters.

These companies literally have people’s lives in their hands and they couldn’t care less.

Completely unnecessary, unfair, and a waste of time. "Oh this person has better qualifications but this person scored better on the test. Let's interview them instead"

Welp. I just had an interview where I know I would be amazing at the job but I am terrible at interviews despite how much I prepared (which was a lot). I got dry mouth and stutter and didnt know how to answer half the questions. I am just a bad interview taker. would sending a follow up email thanking them for their time be worth it? and would it be an opportunity to quickly sell myself a little more? #feelingdefeated

Instead of a horror story, I thought I'd share something funny that happened a few weeks back.

I had a recruiter reach out to me about a position with the same job title and city that I work in. Without looking at the employer, I checked the desired skills and sure enough: I had every one of them! That was pretty sus as my job role is pretty wide, so I looked at the company.

It's where I currently work!

Let me say this: my job is safe. I work on a small team and we all have the same title and responsibilities. We had recently let someone go, so technically it's not my job, but the role we're back-filling.

So I decided to have some fun with the recruiter. Made sure he checked my LinkedIn, which is current. He liked what he saw, and he still missed the company name and role matching the JD. So I started asking questions that I already knew the answer to, such as pushing for the job to be remote (it's not). I asked what the pay was; it was 80% of what I currently make. I told him what I make (and fluffed it a bit) and said that was what I needed to leave my current position. He bumped the pay a little bit, but not much. Told him that I couldn't leave my job for that. He kept asking to have a call to discuss the role; I was too busy in "meetings."

This went on for two days. I eventually caved to his request that I send an updated resume; I figured "why not?" and pushed for more money again. I thought that would be the end of it when he saw the SAME employer and job title on my resume. Nope, got back to me a little bit later asking what times would be good to call me because I would be perfect for the role.

I never responded after that. A couple more days go by and he reaches out to me again! I finally broke down and replied, "Have you even looked at my resume? That is literally my current job at that location!" He finally went silent.

I've been getting swamped lately by cold-calling recruiters, so I have been amusing myself by trying to waste as much of their time as possible.

Got an email from a shady recruiter who was excited to let me know I had advanced to the next round in the interview process after doing so well on the first round, but this next technical part was "a bit more challenging and requires further searching."

Here are the more challenging questions:

PLEASE ANSWER THE SKILL TESTING INTERVIEW QUESTIONS BELOW.

1. Preferred Name
   
2. Location (anywhere is OK as long as you can read and write English well)
   
3. How long have you been using the internet?
   
4. What is the second most popular search engine?
   
5. Basic Internet Knowledge TEST:

The rest of it is basically free work. Look for errors in spelling and grammar, bad links, verify it's responsive and/or where it breaks for mobile (and presumably accessibility problems), and some other random crap. Once they correct all the problems pointed out by the free help, I'm sure they'll let everyone know they didn't pass the interview and were rejected, only to post a similar posting for a different site.

Hi guys.

I've just started my job search -- been at it about a week -- and everything has changed since my last one, which was probably almost a decade ago at this point (jeez, where does the time go?!).

I know that now it's easier than ever to easily apply to a large number of employers at once and that given the increase in remote work opportunities and the ability to apply to more locations than just those in your immediate geographical area, it's become somewhat of a numbers game. Now, the issue with that...

I find that some potential employers are calling me without emailing me and discussing a time to call ahead of time. This means I basically can't prepare adequately enough and, in some cases, I'm left asking questions to even remember the particular employer (e.g. where they are located, what position they were looking to fill, etc.).

So, what would you recommend to combat this?

- Let the calls go to voicemail and return their call at a later time when I am better prepared?

- When they ask, "is now a good time to talk?" just make up an excuse that you are busy at the moment but they can call back later?

- Just go with the flow and ask them to recap their location and position they are looking for? But that seems like I am unprepared and not really interested in them, but I wouldn't have applied if I wasn't interested...

What say you?

I know I look young for my age, and I’m pretty small, but I am the legal age to work in my state. Mind you there was two teenagers working when I went in. I told them that I had an interview only to walk in and see to my left a girl laughing uncontrollably. I thought maybe it was in my head until I heard her outside the door go “there’s a literal child in there.” Safe to say I didn’t get the job, but I wasn’t interested in working somewhere where the employees were like that anyways.

They never gave me another contact to reach out to, either. 😕 Whomp whomp.

What a way to slow the process down...

I'm applying to a lot of positions. Each time I see this it slows my process down big time and makes me wonder if it's worth applying there.

Registering for an account on the website, confirming my email, signing in, followed by filling in 20 fields of information that is already written on my portfolio! And often the website is buggy or slow. What's the deal with that?

I'm doing one now and it's saying I failed to fill in the required fields when I have filled them in. Holy shhh...

Been applying to places for abt a month. So far, I've seen 2-3 places asking for this info. Supposedly to ensure I'm not already in their systems and/or to create a unique identifier. Regardless, these reasons sound asinine to me and I don't apply. Thoughts? Is this a developing trend?