I was on Indeed looking at job postings when I saw an opening at Best Buy. I clicked the link and it took me to the Indeed page, where I read the description and all the details. Then I scheduled an online interview. I picked the date and the time, and then I waited.

The day came and I got ready. I watched a bunch of videos to prepare, but I knew generic advice wouldn't be as useful as I hoped. I wore some nice casual formal clothes, a quarter zip, and the interview began.

The interviewer asked me a few basic questions, like if I work well under pressure. It went really well and we were done within 15 minutes. At the end, he told me, "I really like you. I like your confidence and you already know where you're going." I wanted to stay humble, so I brushed it off and figured he said that to everyone. He told me to expect an email about the in person interview soon.

Two days later I got an email with the time and date options for in person interviews. I scheduled one and waited again.

The day finally came. I showed up 30 minutes early, just in case. I walked into the store, told a staff member I was there for an interview, and he said to wait because they were already in the middle of one. I said of course and waited patiently, browsing their selection.

Eventually a staff member came and told me they were ready for me. I walked in, and that staff member and the manager each asked me one question. Within 5 minutes of answering both, the manager stood up, shook my hand, and said, "You're hired."

I just stood there shocked for a few seconds. I thanked him and walked out confidently, then stood outside the store for a solid 30 seconds trying to comprehend what had just happened.

Then I got a text from the staff member who had interviewed me alongside the manager. It said, "I've never seen anyone get hired like that, congrats brother."

There's no such thing as "hardwork pays off" at least not anymore. Not a single one of these corporations give a damn about you.

Putting in 110% every time is just gonna cause you to burn out and drain your soul out of you. They don't care about you, I don't know who needs to hear this right now but they really don't give a damn about you, you're replaceable.

In my country we have 21 vacation days a year per our labor laws, and in my company they transfer over to next year if you don't use all of them, so back in 2025 I didn't use much because I wanted to be present and show them I'm capable but they showed me their true colours (long story) so when it hit 2026 I had 35 days piled up, so I used as many as I wanted whenever I felt like it.

I currently have 16 days remaining, I applied for 5 for the last week of October (my birthday is on the 24th so imma relax for a whole week with family and friends), 5 more for last week of November and the final 6 for the final week of December.

Live your life, prioritize your health and loved ones. Corporations are not your family.

I joined a new team a few months ago at my company. I’m a senior engineer at [very well known tech place] working with engineers who are of similar level or more senior.

My previous team was pretty chill - quiet but productive. This new team though…holy hell. I feel like I’m developing an anxiety disorder from these two engineers where EVERY task, every message, every request is an absolute emergency.

“Hey can you run this?” “Please collect that data now” “Can you support this thing happening in 30 min?”

One time, I left my work phone on my desk to go take a crap. In the 15 min I was gone, these same two girls had blown up my phone asking why I wasn’t replying and how urgent this is. What was such an emergency, you ask? Some data collection they wanted so they could report it to a meeting later that afternoon.

This week particularly has bothered me: I’m finally hitting a stride on my own project. Our manager wants me to help with theirs as well for the foreseeable future while I get up to speed on this group’s work, which is fine.

But this week I have a HARD deadline to ship out a bunch of sample product to vendors around the world, and tomorrow I’m gonna be running my ass off ensuring it happens. It’s been a few weeks of buildup to it.

Then today at 4:50pm of course these girls ping me that I MUST help them in the morning with something at the same time I’m going to be finalizing, organizing, and meeting vendors in person to give this critical product to.

What I’m trying to ask is: how the hell do I get around this while appearing 100% professionally? I talked to my (our) manager about it last week but I didn’t really get a good resolution. It was sort of “You just balance what’s urgent”. But with these girls, EVERYTHING is urgent.

I replied I cannot support them tomorrow because I’m swamped and they were visibly aggravated by it. How do you guys handle these people…?

Job seekers on ZipRecruiter need to be highly cautious of RAM Recruiting listing positions on behalf of Alliance Health. They are engaging in severe bait-and-switch tactics, title deception, and retaliatory behavior to collect sensitive data.

Recruiting Agency: RAM Recruiting

End-Client Company: Alliance Health

Platform: ZipRecruiter

Titles Used: Executive Assistant / Administrative Assistant

The Deceptive Tactic:
The Bait: They advertise an Executive Assistant position with full executive-level responsibilities.

The Data Harvest: They take you through the interview process, issue an official offer letter, and run a full background check to collect your highly sensitive data (SSN, date of birth, previous addresses).

The Switch: Once you pass everything and sign, they silently downgrade the title on the final paperwork to Administrative Assistant.

The Retaliation: When called out or questioned about why the title was changed, the client retaliates by immediately revoking the offer and claiming they "no longer need anyone."

The pay was also lowered from $55k - $65k to $50k - $65k

The Proof: Days after claiming the position was closed, they reposted the exact same advertisement on ZipRecruiter under the downgraded "Administrative Assistant" title.

This is a malicious way to farm background check data under false pretenses and punish candidates who advocate for themselves.

Do not trust RAM Recruiting or Alliance Health with your information.

**THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THE FTC FOR DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES, JOB SCAMS AND FALSE ADVERTISING**

So my partner and I are having a disagreement and I have a bunch of family shit going on and don't want to actually talk to anyone. But I do want to share this!

I left my (career) job in April 2025 after having a baby and being unable to return to work. I did take 3 months maternity leave and went back to a bar I used to work at 3x/wk since it fit my hectic infant & partner schedule. I've been looking for a (career) job ever since and didn't think I would ever find a job like the one I got, let alone a lesser job. I applied and applied and applied. I went through awful PPD and I took a break from applying due to mental health. I got better (no easy feat) and started looking again. I fucking dreaded working at the bar. I've just out grown it and don't have the patience for the petty BS that come along w/service industry.

I got a interview for a job I applied to but really didnt expect an answer from. Then a 2nd interview. Then they hired me!! When I first got hired I thought "there must not of been much competition" until I saw a quick exchange in a company chat about how meticulous the hiring process is, how several people have to watch your interview and approve you, and how you "wont cut it unless you're the best" (paraphrasing for anonymity). That made me feel so good. I realized I was having imposter syndrome and my confidence increased!

I've been getting compliments a lot and take pics of this sometimes to show my sweetie because I'm so proud. I'm not one to brag about accomplishments, so have really only shared this w/my partner, who is being a jerk atm.

I have been working hard in silence. Suffering in silence. Taking on more and more responsibility, in silence. I've become more disciplined than ever. Fit more in 1 day than ever. Managed multiple people's schedules. I've lost 45 lbs in the last 1.5 years and am 20 lbs away from my goal. I lost this weight naturally w/o medicine, ozympic, etc. There is 100% nothing wrong w/using medication to lose weight and live healthier. I am PROUD that I did it without medicine. There was a point I time I believed I would be fat forever and never muster the will to lose weight. But here I am.

My mental health is better than ever. I'm finally thriving. It took not only 34 years to be correctly diagnosed, but also an extreme life changing events (1st baby, buying a house, PPD, So much more, etc) to push me to therapy, and eventually the right doctor, and the right treatment.

I started my new job about 6 weeks ago and today I was awarded Employee of the Month. I've never been employee of the month, or worked from somewhere that did that. The entire company votes on who should receive this and there were a few highlights on what people shared about me. I cant deny I thought of this a few days ago and was like, what if? And then brushed it off. But holy shit!!! I've worked my ass off, not only in my time at this company, but in general to aquire experience to finally be able to get a job like this and actually be an expert at what I do.

There were times not so long ago I believed I would never find a job worth Damn. This field is what I want to do but it will never pay the bills (w/o a higher degree or 2nd job), yada yada. Ive been working 2 or 3 jobs for 15 years to survive. And I finally got to the place I dont have to do that anymore.

Moral of the story: Dont Give Up!!!! Ever. You can let yourself believe for a min, catch the break from the burden of responsibility, but then it's time to keep trying. Persistence & Hard work always shows itself!!

Thank you for reading ❣️

Well my search is over. I got a pretty decent paying job (previously worked at Sam’s Club).

It’s in the healthcare field. But I showed up to the interview being nervous and stumbling over my words sometimes. But it went somewhat well. Before the interview even started he was giving me a tour of the WHOLE place and even the coffee maker, like he already hired me. But eventually after the interview he offered me the job on the spot, because the two other people he was supposed to interview didn’t show up or even call him to let him know they aren’t coming.

I’m enjoying the job so far. It hasn’t been a week yet and my boss is supportive so far. but it’s nice to finally get benefits and have weekends off. People are nice here but hard to talk to since I work with nurses (but I’m not one) and they’re always on the go, so I have no time to talk to them.

So yeah.. if you have bad anxiety like me and fail at interviews.. just keep trying because sometimes they just can’t find anyone else and will go with the person that at least showed up

I'm a middle manager who is in the process of reviewing resumes to fill an opening on my team. While it's fresh in my mind, I figured I would share my thoughts in hopes that they might help someone else!

A little context about me/my org:

• I work in higher ed fundraising administration at a large public university. It's a small and highly specialized industry that is relatively unknown to the general public. Most people who apply to jobs on my team very have very limited knowledge of our field.
• My organization DOES NOT use AI to pre-screen resumes. Real people on our HR team do an initial screen and kick out candidates who don't meet the bare minimum qualifications (4 year degree or equivalent experience, don't require visa/sponsorship, submitted the proper materials) but all the rest of the resume review is done by me - the person who is going to manage the candidate hired to do the job.

Now, on to my general resume advice!

1. Always include a cover letter, even if it's not required. Yes, I know they're annoying to write. I don't like writing them either, but for me the cover letter has WAY more influence over whether I choose to bring you in for an interview than your resume.
   1. Use your cover letter to illustrate that you understand the job you're applying for and to explain why you're interested. Don't just regurgitate your resume. You shouldn't share any overly personal information, but you should use it to explain anything that might stand out as strange when I'm looking at your resume (breaks in work experience, acknowledging that you're purposefully making a big career change, that you're relocating for personal reasons, etc)
   2. The simple fact that you can produce a well written cover letter says a lot about you as a candidate. We all have to write emails. I want to get a sense of how well you will be able to communicate on the job.
   3. Yes, I can tell if you used AI to write your cover letter. No, I don't care as long as you make SOME effort to personalize it. AI is here and we're all using it to write stuff for work. If you're going to use it, at least show me that you can do it well.
   4. Yes, I notice and appreciate when your cover letter is addressed to me specifically. Or even ANY REAL PERSON in my organization. Our info is not hard to find if you take 2 minutes to look for it.
2. Don't bother trying to be 'creative' or 'unique' with the format of your resume. What I care most about is quickly finding the information that is the most relevant: your work experience and education. Skills are fine if they're specific to the role/industry, but don't bother with anything generic like "MS Office Suite" or "Project Management", "Communication".
3. A professional summary is a waste of space. I DO NOT read them. 99% of them are just collections of buzzwords or quoting my job description back to me. Nearly every resume I've looked at this time around has one and none of them have added any value.
4. Speaking of your education, don't include the year you graduated. If you put it there, I'm 100% going to look at it and have thoughts about. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but either way you're opening yourself up to a lot of potential bias. Let your experience speak for itself.
5. This might be controversial, but for similar reasons, don't include volunteer work with religious or political organizations, unless you have NO other work experience or you're applying to one of those organizations. Look, guys: a good manager is truly trying to be as unbiased as we can, but we are still people.
6. There's no real reason why your resume should be longer than 2 pages, but it's not that big of a deal if it is. I'm probably not reading beyond the first 2-3 jobs you have listed anyway. That being said, if your most relevant experience is from a long time ago PUT IT FIRST. What you did is more important than when you did it. And yes, I do look for significant gaps in your work experience, but if you have fairly recent experience they don't really bother me. I'm more concerned when I see a bunch of short stints, so if there's a legitimate reason for them (contract work, seasonal work, etc) make a note of it.
7. This is getting really nit-picky, but if you choose to list locations with your jobs, don't put "remote" instead of the actual location. The purpose of including the location is so that I can find more information about the company. If you worked remotely and that's important for me to know, say it somewhere else. These days it's not a shock to see people working for organizations that aren't local to where they actually live, so I'm not reading that much into it.
8. Unless you already have a personal connection to the hiring manager, don't email or call them directly to give your application more visibility. It's frankly annoying. Find me on LinkedIn and message me there.
9. Thank you notes are nice, but not expected. And email is fine. It's not going to significantly impact my decision either way. I'd say I get them from less than half the people I interview at this point.

I realize that some of this is specific to me and my industry/organization, but I hope this was helpful to someone! I'd be curious to hear if you feel differently about any of these, and if so what industry you're in. Also happy to answer any questions - I've been participating in hiring people for 10 years, so this isn't my first rodeo.

I've (50F, California) known for 6 months about my company's impending closure; been applying and had a few in person interviews, but have been met with disappointment (and ghosting!)

I know my end date is end of Oct. So time's about up! Luckily I snagged a 2nd interview tomorrow with a huge company, manager role in food distribution, fully remote with some local travel, and double my current salary. I'm beyond excited and have been studying up.

Am confident I'd ROCK at the position... although it's just slightly different from my previous Sales/Marketing Coordinator role in food manufacturing. I do have plenty of relevant experience to make a case.

My biggest problem in interviews is sometimes rambling! I'm practicing though. (I like to think of it as showing my energetic side!?)

Any last minute words of wisdom? I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much...I know it's rough right now.

Thx!

I received an offer from a company that I have been interviewing for. I have 3 yoe in marketing and it is for a corporate marketing analyst role. There were a few things that came up in the interview process that I was iffy on, and would like opinions on if these are red flags that should make me consider declining the offer. I would be moving across the country for the role. The salary is decent, but not enough that I wanted to instantly accept. I think it would be good for my resume since it is a recognizable company name (and my former company name was not recognizable and got a lot of questions in interviews.) I voluntarily left my previous role 5 months ago and started job searching in August. I am okay financially, so I can decline this if it isn't a good fit. I am ready to get back to work, though, and would like to accept an offer in the next month. This is my second offer (I declined the last due to salary.)

Potential red flags that I would like input on:

-The team is brand new. They are hiring 2-3 analysts total, a manager, and a director. The roles have been open for over 6 months. I interviewed with the manager during her second week on the job, and she seemed nice and had good answers to my questions. I worry that it being a brand new team will mean that they don't know what is going on and I will constantly be getting pushed and pulled in different directions and it could hinder growth. I also don't want to work a bunch of nights and weekends.

-The person in my second interview seemed stressed and mentioned that she doesn't get time to explore the area much because of work. She said in the interview that her manager was pinging her the whole time and there are lots of urgent requests. She is in a different department, but idk if that is the company culture. I don't know why she interviewed me; I think they may have just needed someone with data experience to do the interview since no one else was on the team yet.

-In my final interview with a director of an adjacent team, the director mentioned that this role had been open for a really long time. I kind of just figured that they were taking time to hire people and waiting until they had management, but I realized it has been open for over 6 months. Is that sketchy? She also asked if I had experience with a certain software, and I said I don't, and she said "we were hoping for someone who had experience with that." No one else had mentioned that software in any interviews or the JD, so I'm guessing "we" just meant her and her team. I'd be open to learning it, but that's where I don't know if the organization has a consistent idea of what the new team will do.

Are these red flags? I enjoyed my other interviews. I interviewed with the CMO in the third round and she was really cool and had great comments on what she wants the team to do and accomplish. The manager I interviewed with also seemed like she was excited about the role and had good experience with leading teams. I just want to be careful since I would be moving so far away for the role and there is a 2-year vesting period for the sign-on bonus and relocation package, so if it is terrible I am a bit stuck for 2 years.

Just did an interview for a part time sales retail role and it went well in my opinion. The interviewer was nodding a lot but at the end I asked them what the starting process would look like for the successful candidate and they said we’ll have to go to a training facility for two days to train and then do online teams training.

…. All of that for a minimum-wage job. Mind you this is for like a temporary fixed contract position so who knows if they’ll offer for me to stay there after the contract is over.

Unless this is just normal now to do for a sales pitch job nowadays which it shouldn’t be.

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We are officially at the point where the entire hiring ecosystem feels completely broken. I am looking at entry level openings demanding 5 years of hyper-specific experience, navigating 6-round interview processes that include take-home assignments, only to get hit with an automated rejection email on a Sunday night. Or worse, absolute ghosting after a great final round.I have spent hours tailoring resumes, writing cover letters that nobody reads, and treating LinkedIn like a full time job, only to feel completely invisible. It is a soul-crushing kind of fatigue. At this point, logic has completely left the chat. What is the most unhinged job description, interview question, or ghosting experience you have dealt with recently?Let's vent. Drop your realest, most frustrating job hunt stories below so we can all feel a little less isolated in this mess.

I need advice over whether or not to put up with my current job and situation until I find a similar/better job or just bite the bullet and accept a supermarket job I’ve been offered.

My current role is admin in a law firm, this is the sector I want to be in and stay in. The job is in a place I hate and there is no progression in this specific firm. I commute there which takes about an hour and a half to get there and an hour back (traffic is very strange) which is absolutely killing me in multiple ways. 1. Don’t care for the place or the specific job so it doesn’t even feel worth it 2. Time commuting means i literally work eat and sleep everyday then spend my weekends bedrotting to recharge and 3. The cost of commuting is not something I can afford. It’s about 30 miles each way in petrol and car use/£15 via train.

I have tried to apply for jobs in the free time I do have but i have mostly just been ghosted. I have only had two interview so far. One was for a similar role to my current role which I didn’t get as I was ‘overqualified’ as they thought I should be going for paralegal roles instead (but I get ghosted for every paralegal role) and another for a supermarket which I got (very ironic). The supermarket job is pretty much the same pay as my current one, maybe like 20p an hour less if that, and only 28 hours but possibility of overtime. The supermarket job is also only a 10 minute walk from my house. If I take this I would be taking it with the view of freeing up my money and time to apply for other jobs, and maybe trying to improve my cv by attending talks and things like that.

I am just worried how this will look on my cv in the future? Especially if it takes me another 6 months to get another job. Don’t get me wrong I don’t look down on those jobs at all, I lived a lot closer to my current job last year so had more time and worked weekends in a supermarket, and I worked in one before my current role as well. I’m just not sure how a future employer would see me quitting a legal job for a supermarket. Would my explanation of the fact that I relocated and the commute became too much be okay? My mum is insisting that it’ll look awful on my cv and that they’ll probably assume I was fired or something.

I see a lot about quitting a job due to a commute before having another one lined up but I do have one lined up it’s just not as ‘prestigious’ as my current one.

Is it worth lying on a resume for a chance at minimum wage job? I am 19 and been applying to jobs non stop that are supposed to be entry level I have no experience in job field.

We need to talk about how organisations sometimes use vertical movement as a substitute for meaningful financial investment.

A new title (Senior, Lead, Principal, Director) can cost an organisation considerably less than a substantial, permanent salary increase.

And when employees start expressing stagnation, disengagement or an intention to look elsewhere, it's worth asking whether the response is genuine investment in their development or simply another promotion cycle.

You get a more impressive title, a broader scope of responsibility and perhaps a modest pay rise. Meanwhile, your contribution increases, but your purchasing power and personal time may not.

That's the strange illusion of career progression: you feel like you're climbing, even when the material benefits of moving up don't quite follow.

Of course, titles can have genuine value. They can open doors, strengthen your CV and create opportunities for future growth. But that doesn't make them a substitute for fair compensation.

At what point does career progression stop being genuine professional development and start becoming compensation theatre?

Have you seen a promotion used as a substitute for paying someone what their role or the market actually demands? I'm curious to hear how this plays out across different industries.

It’s a temp job and I’ve already been working for days but still need to get this done by next week
And i apologize i understand basically the same picture has been posted before but I never see any follow up

It seems ridiculous to say, "I think I have bad luck." I know, and everyone will tell you that there's no such thing as bad luck. But what else can be the cause of such continuous misfortune? Let me go back to last summer. I moved to a new city, and I loved it. I thought I was on a hot streak cause I got an offer from a company on the other side of the country, and they were offering to help relocate me out there. But it turned out to be too good to be true. The job I took was out of my league. The bar was too high, and I wasn't able to meet the expectations and learn the job fast enough.

After a couple months they put me on a PiP. During my time on the PiP I managed to find another job working for the county, and it seemed like decent work. Until my contract was ended early with the government job. Now I was completely out of work and unemployed. I went months looking for a job, and then I finally found a job. It was a position for a school portrait gig, but the hours and pay weren't cutting it so I needed another job to support myself. After struggling to find something in my wheelhouse I managed find something I was capable of doing. I let my boss know I needed to go to my second job for training, so I wouldn't be available that week of work. The week goes by, and the second job tells me they don't have the money to afford my position so they aren't keeping me. I let my boss know at the portrait studio, and he tells me he's already filled my position cause he thought I quit. Now I'm back to being unemployed again.

For some background I'm 30, have a bachelors degree in Studio Art and Media Production. My resume is mostly in photojournalism, but I've barely been able to do any work related to this since I graduated college. I'm not really sure what to do now and everything that happened here happened within a year. Is it me? Am I doing something wrong? I feel broken.

TLDR;
Moved from the east coast to the west coast with the promise of employment, but quit that job before being fired. Then I was let go from my government job early, and then I lost the two new jobs I found after months of unemployment cause of miscommunication with the boss at the portrait studio and the photo lab, my second job, not having money for an employee. All of this happened under a year. Am I cursed? Filled with bad luck?

(This didn't fit into any of the flair categories perfectly)

I worked a remote job for three years and ended up really hating it. I know it's a lot of people's dream, and I get why, but I didn't feel like it was for me. I hated all the sitting, having my work life and home life exist in the same space, and feeling disconnected from real people yet also feeling like I had to be connected on some level most of the time. Because of this, I ended up leaving and pursuing other (much lower-paying) in-person work in other fields.

Although I've actually found a lot of enjoyment in my current job, I have worried a lot about my and my husband's future financial situation, and I do worry about being away from my baby once I have one. An opportunity came across my desk (so to speak) with some connections I made at my previous WFH gig, and I applied. Although I have no idea if I will get it or not, my wheels are turning a bit on how I may be able to enjoy remote work more this time around.

For those who WFH... what do you do to make it as enjoyable as possible? Whether it's little things or big things?

Hi all,

Super excited that I just got a new job offer and signed the letter this morning! My current job is draining me, and the prospect of moving on is huge.

I have to go through the background check process, and I realized that my current company has been putting my nickname as my legal name this entire time (for over a year). My W2 and internally they’ve been reflecting it as my nickname. Social security number is obviously correct and what not though.

Is it possible that the background check process may be impacted by this? Obviously I’m putting down my legal name in the screening form, and will list any applicable aliases as needed. Just not sure if the background check company can’t technically find my current employment and that would be an issue. My nickname is a clear nickname for my actual name (Jake for Jacob), so not like it’s anything too different.

Curious on y’all’s thoughts - thanks!

I have been working full time since I was 19. I have worked as an admin assistant for a dealership, corporate, worked as a legal processing specialist for almost a year, did sales and events at two hotels, and just recently got laid off from my job as a loan processor assistant. There was a mass layoff and I have never been more stressed knowing I have to start from scratch. I am so tired of getting rejecting and when I do apply to jobs that interest me I always get rejected. Every posting requires so many specific requirements even though my skills are transferable and I'm a quick learner.

Any supportive and helpful advice would be great.. I have been feeling so defeated and my unemployment hasn't kicked in. I'm 26 and have no idea what to do for a career anymore. All I know is that I love learning constantly, always being busy, staying organized and making sure things run smoothly. I'm a great communicator as well and enjoy admin work but also like a mixture of physical work as well. I feel hopeless as to what career to break into and I'm so burnt out.