Got an Interview at Tilly’s (Clothing store in my mall) and was wondering if this outfit is okay ? The last interview I had I dressed jeans and button up and felt very embarrassed no one else for the interview was dressed up as I was! Want to know if this outfit is okay or is it too inappropriate for a basic retail job. (Also I checked Tilly’s dress code is extremely laid back as well)

I've just become unemployed, and new job postings are dwindling.

I feel like I'm stuck in the endless apply-reject loop, and watching positions dry up is making me a little nervous.

For those who work in HR, hiring, or have managed to actually land a job during late Q4:

When do you accept applications until? Are companies shutting down their hiring operations for the holidays to prepare for the new year?

Would love to hear your experiences.

I just wrapped up a seven-week hiring gauntlet for a senior project manager role. Five separate interview rounds, a take-home presentation, and two instances where the hiring manager rescheduled with zero notice because of "internal emergencies." I jumped through every single hoop with a smile.

Then, at four-thirty on Friday afternoon, the recruiter sends over the formal offer letter. At the bottom of the email in bold text, it said: "Please note this offer expires on Sunday at midnight."

I sat there staring at my laptop in disbelief. They took forty-nine days to decide if they wanted me, but expected me to read through a twenty-page non-compete agreement, analyze health insurance deductibles, and make a major life decision over a weekend when their own corporate office isnt even open to answer basic questions.

I emailed back politely asking for an extension until Wednesday so I could review the terms properly. The recruiter called me twenty minutes later sounding visibly annoyed, telling me that leadership "values decisive candidates." It is just INSANE. Exploding offers have nothing to do with business urgency and everything to do with bullying candidates before they can finish interviewing elsewhere. Why do companies think this kind of behavior is acceptable? Why is this even a thing?

I am genuinely curious...

Recently stared working as a programmer in some shitty corporation. They are forcing us to use AI in our projects etc... Now I am debating, with my colleagues, about jobs that just cannot be replaced by AI and wanted to hear what people from around the world think about it. Asking this also in regard to my current employment and if I should continue this path.

For context, I live in Europe, Poland

I expected old job posts to be the dead ones. It was the opposite.

(What got me watching: I once got a rejection about 26 hours after applying, on a Sunday, and the job stayed up.)

So I followed about 100,000 open US job posts on companies' own career sites for two weeks. Here's what happened.

The job you just found is the one most likely to vanish.

36.5% of jobs posted in the past week were gone within two weeks. For jobs posted a month or more earlier, it was 15.7%. Most old posts stayed up.

Gone doesn't always mean gone.

18% of the jobs that came down came back as a new posting. Same company, same title, same place, usually the same day. If you applied to the old one, your application may be sitting on the old copy.

"Urgent" is just a word.

Jobs that say "urgent" or "immediate hire" are about as old as everything else: 34.6% have been up 60+ days, vs 38.4% of all open jobs.

When a company pulls a batch, watch your application.

At companies that took down 10+ jobs in a single day, 27.8% of their remaining jobs came down over the next 9 days. Everywhere else: 11.0%. That's about 2.5x. Sometimes they stopped hiring. Sometimes they reposted the whole board with new dates.

So what I'd do: apply in week one, don't skip a job just because it's old, and when a job you applied to vanishes, search the company's careers page for the same title.

What's the fastest a job you applied to disappeared? Or have you seen one come back with a new date?

How I measured: I re-read each employer's own career site every day (98% within a day). "Came down" means gone from that site. "Reposted" means the same company, title and location posted again, which is a best guess. Point 1: 15,118 new and 53,871 older jobs open Oct 13, checked through Oct 27. Point 2: 30,330 takedowns since tracking started Oct 12 (median time to repost 0 days, 75% within 1.7 days). Point 3: 1,829 "urgent" jobs in a snapshot of jobs open Oct 27. Point 4: jobs open Oct 18, checked through Oct 27, at companies that took down 10+ jobs in one day Oct 14 to 17 (7,449 of 26,833 vs 8,346 of 76,123). US only.

I got an offer letter from a very good company which I accepted but after I got hired I realised that I needed to submit my transcript for it. The thing is that I am a drop out and have been for the past year and I haven’t updated that on my resume. I am thinking of just faking the transcript but I’m afraid I will be caught.

If anyone has any idea on what I can do in this situation please guide me. The transcript is a mist according to them. They told me that my degree doesn’t need to be finished they just need a transcript but I can’t provide that.
Also if I fake the transcript and get caught what will be the consequences.

Right after applying for a position, it redirects me to this page. An automatic rejection. Are companies taking the piss? Are they advertising jobs they don’t probably have to get a thrill out of messing with people like this?

So I have been unemployed for 6 months and finally I got an offer that I wanted. It has been the most painful 6 months of recruiting after interview, rejections, interview, rejections...The biggest change during that time for me was learning how to actually practice for interviews.

At first i thought applying consistently before each call would be enough. I read up on the company, went through common questions and tried to sound confident. but after bunch of calls and rounds of interviews, it went no where and I started running out of confidence..

Most of the time I thought I did pretty well but then i get the rejection and have no idea what to change. Eventually I asked a former coworker to do a mock interview with me and give me specific feedback. His feedback made me felt uncomfortable at that time but it was pretty useful to me at that time. He was saying I took too long to the point, said 'we' so often that it was hard to tell what I had done personally, and gave answers that couldve come from almost anyone with my job title.

So I started doing a few things differently to stand out:

1. I started practicing out loud to actually hear what I said

2. getting feedback on one thing at a time so I know what exactly to work on

3. building a small bank of real examples that could be fit into most of the interview questions to give me flexibility

4. writing notes after interviews about things that caught me off guard and where I started rambling, then work on those before the next one

What helped me stand out the most was getting more specific. For the role I eventually landed I looked closely at the job descriptions and prepared examples that matched the problems they seemed to need help with. i also asked how they were handling those problems currently which led to a much better conversation than my usual questions about company culture.

I am so glad recruiting is over now and that was a lot of pain. I hope this will help you guys at least bit for your next interview.

I have a job, but am looking to possibly make a move due to a chaotic work environment. I've been interviewing for months with an organization and done 5 or 6 interviews (I've lost count at this point) + a take-home exercise that took me 6 hours.

I was told this organization is really "thorough" in their hiring process but it seems like they don't respect candidates' time at all.
The most recent interview was with the chair of the company, whom I was warned always runs late.

I was on my way to the interview, and received a call a few minutes before it was scheduled to start that the chair would be 1 hour late and to wait at a nearby cafe. I wasn't happy and was considering cancelling, but the person who called was apologetic so I figured I'd give it a pass.

The chair ended up being 1.5 hours late and didn't apologize - mind you this was a very busy work day for me and I had to come up with an excuse to get out. The interviewer asked all kinds of questions and I wasn't sure if we clicked or not, but I figured this would be the last step before a possible offer (much higher pay than my current work).

Today one of the previous interviewers called me and grilled me over something I said in my interview with the chair. The chair apparently thought I might be too nice for the job and wanted proof that I could be tough with people if needed. The call ended with the interviewer telling me they very busy and would get back to me next week.

Mind you, all my previous interviews went very smoothly and the people were easygoing, and punctual. I find myself wondering if they were testing me with the lateness??

Today's call kind of took the wind out of my sails, and I'm second guessing whether I want to pursue this opportunity. My current job has serious issues, but I don't want to leave for someplace where I'd potentially be working for an asshole.

Is it worth waiting to see if they make an offer, or should I just write them a note withdrawing my candidacy? The recruiter told me I was the top contender for the role, which is supposed to be remote - one of the main reasons I decided to apply.

What was the final straw/something that made you walk out same day or even after a period of time?

In sales preferably but other experiences welcome.

I work in tech industry as well have experience working in logistics office industry. I moved 35 mins out of CLT NC and I can’t find a damn job for the last 2 months. I’ve worked remote for a large distributor company in IT tech and literally can’t get an offer at all. Has a bunch of interviews as well as 1000 applications. Still nothing I’m getting so depressed.

Hi everyone! I’d like some advice from people who have experience with rotating shifts.
I currently work as a production worker, with hours from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM and a 1.5-hour lunch break. The work environment is great and my colleagues are nice, but the job is monotonous and, most importantly, I feel like I have no free time. Between work and the long lunch break, I get to the end of the day without even having time to run simple errands, let alone study at university, spend time with my girlfriend or enjoy my hobbies.
I’ve received an offer for a new job as an electromechanical technician in an automated logistics facility, with higher pay and potentially more interesting work. The schedule involves five working days out of seven, with shifts rotating every week: 6 AM–2 PM, 2 PM–10 PM and 10 PM–6 AM.
I’ve never worked shifts before, and I’m worried I might struggle to adapt, especially when it comes to sleep and my personal life. At the same time, I want to change jobs and develop my skills, but I don’t want to end up with even less energy and free time.

Any thoughts?

My prospective employer uses one of the verification agencies like either HireRight or First Advantage. I am assuming they use The Work Number (TWN). I am not sure how TWN works. Would the background verification companies receive employment information for only the companies I specified on the application form? Or would they get the full employment history dump from TWN?

No careers interest me at all. the one hobby I can think of that I do semi like is art, but I'm not sure how to make that into a decent career. I'm not great at it, and I know it's probably competitive, and now with AI idek if there will be a future with art. I know everyone says architecture but I hate math so that's not an option.

So I recently started a new job and I have been here about a month after leaving a toxic job I have for about 2 years.

The new job and company is good but I'm starting to feel that it's not for me. It's currently in the IT consulting space working in SaaS and my role is delivery consultant.

My last job was in a very different industry in which I had to find something after a layoff from a company I loved for 4 years.

So I have been trying to decide if I should start testing the waters and start looking for something else. Has anyone had success with this? And if so did you list your current role on your resume and were you able to successfully explain why you wanted to leave your newer role?

Appreciate it, thanks!

A few month ago, I applied to a job that looked pretty interesting, and forgot about it. I was then laid off last month, and the next day, a recruiter from the job I applied to reached out, and I was able to schedule an interview. Interview went well, they said they really liked me and would reach out in a couple weeks for next steps. Instead of a few weeks, they emailed me to tell me that I was moving on to the next step in two days to an interview with the vp.
That interview was on Thursday, and it ended with the vp saying I would be a really good fit for the position. He then said they would reach out early this week for either next steps, or an interview with the cfo if he has the time.
Problem is that Wednesday is almost over, and I still haven’t heard back. I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to follow up with the recruiter tomorrow morning, or if it’s better to wait till Monday.

I graduated with a degree in accounting, I have done tax preparation for a few years, the pay is horrible. I am currently studying for the CPA exam. I work as a server/ bar tender at a busy restaurant located in downtown. I currently work 4 days for an average of 31 to 35 hours per week, and make around 68k/yr. With the new tax law regarding tips, 25k of my pay isn’t subject to federal taxes. So I making around 3k more than I would if I was another 68k/yr job, which also happens to be what the going rate for entry level accounting jobs. My family and friends are pressuring my to leave the service industry, and work in the field I studied for, but it doesn’t make sense for me to leave a job where I rarely work over 40 hours, for one that I will regularly be working 40 hours, then 60-70 hours during the busy season for essentially the same pay. I have only been at this restaurant for a year, and I’m slowly getting more serving shifts, if I serve all 4 days I will make around 90k/yr. Am I wrong for wanting to stay at this job for a few more years? Or should I take the pay cut (and increase of hours) and start my long term career in accounting? I’m 29, and I’m planning on leaving the industry when I’m 32. Am I shooting myself in the foot by waiting so long? I graduated when I was 28 if this helps.

I applied for a crew boat captain position, and I honestly thought I was being pranked when I saw the requirements.
They wanted STCW ratings, a captain’s license, a towing endorsement, and a navigation license. Basically, they wanted someone with enough training, certifications, and responsibility to safely operate a vessel, manage a crew, and navigate potentially dangerous waters.
I figured a job with that many qualifications would pay pretty well. So I looked at the advertised rate. $250 is the day rate.😭

I’ve been working with a Tier-1 product based company for the past five years, and I’ve spent nearly 10–11 years in the IT industry.
Over the last 2–3 years, I’ve had enough of the constant negative news about layoffs, market crashes, and job insecurity. I’m tired of letting all this uncertainty affect my peace of mind. Now, I’ve decided to take back full control of my life.
I’ll continue to work as long as I’m employed, give my best, and do what I need to do. But I no longer want my happiness to depend on my job, the market, or what’s happening around me.
I want to focus on living life to the fullest, spending quality time with myself and my family, being there for my mother and my son, and appreciating the little things that truly matter.
I know I’m an overthinker, and I’ve been one for as long as I can remember. I’ve spent too much time worrying about things I can’t control. But I don’t want to live that way anymore.
Honestly, I don’t care if Microsoft lays off 60,000 people or Google lays off 10,000. I feel for those affected, but I don’t want to carry the weight of every negative headline on my shoulders.
I’m done letting fear, uncertainty, and overthinking control my life.
From now on, I want to focus on what I can control: my actions, my mindset, my happiness, my health, and the time I spend with the people I love.
I’ll work hard, live responsibly, and prepare for the future, but I’ll also learn to enjoy the present.
My job is a part of my life, not my entire life. My happiness is my responsibility, and my peace of mind is my priority.
I’ve had enough of living in constant worry. It’s time to live, not just survive.

Thanks for letting me vent out here. I don’t want to sound meagre in front of my family.

-A Common Indian IT Guy

Today I’ve been told that a previous worker will be joining back. Usually this would be no issue but I’m an apprentice and I have been told he gives apprentices a hard time. For example, he randomly would touch apprentices before me private areas. He would also be very annoying by doing lots of practical jokes and try to press people’s buttons.

I’ve been stressing and over thinking a lot about this and have thought about telling people but I’m unsure what to do as it may be fine and it could all be in my head however his friend works at my place and he tells me you think what I give you is bad he will be 10X worse . Another apprentice moved to a different place because he wouldn’t leave him alone.

I’m getting really anxious and I have been loosing sleep over it. I do take some stick but it is manageable and it is quite rare that it gets really bad. But I thought I would get some opinions before I do something as I’m unsure on what to do. I have thought about leaving and searching for something else as I’m unsure this is what I want to do

I applied for a casual position. I wanted to ask three questions about the expected hours per week, what time of day would I mostly be working, and if this role is temporary (which it says it is) and if I'll be covering until permanent employee returns. It doesn't specifically state if this role is just temporary for set amount of time, but does say "temp" in job details.

Is it okay to ask these? The interview date is set for next week but I don't want to waste their time interviewing if it's only a 6 month position and I can possibly get 0 hours certain weeks.

The interview date was just made not even an hour ago and I haven't replied yet to confirm. Not sure if I should ask these during the interview or beforehand in an email.

Thank you in advance. Wishing everybody luck out there.