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 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?

I gave my two weeks notice by email to my boss today and got an email back saying that they appreciate the two weeks, but would terminate employment effective immediately. For purposes of unemployment or other legal reasons, did I get fired? Or would this still be considered quitting?

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 currently work in a hospital. I had to go through a lengthy background check to get this job, and I passed. My coworker was jokingly looking people up in Jailview (it wasn't just me) and I'm afraid that she found my mugshot, she suddenly got quiet and said "have you actually been to jail before?" and I laughed it off and said no way girl and she laughed it off and we kept working and joking around. I have a horrible charge on there from about 8 years ago. I won't go into it, I was out the next day and it was dropped immediately in court.

I have no clue what to do. I just sent an email to the county whatever to request an application to get my record expunged but I'm very scared.

I've been unemployed now for 3 months, I've noticed that I only get emails from recruiters on linked in, and then they are based out of India (I'm in the States). I've also noticed they aren't hiring for any full time W2 positions only 6 month or 1 year contracts. Is this normal?

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

people who managed to leave tech for other jobs and industries that they like and enjoy, what do you do now and how did you escape?

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

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'm so freaking annoyed. I applied for this part-time waitressing role and I was smacked with long hours for my first week. I didn't expect them to throw me into the shift like that. And there's a one month notice period if I want to quit. The manager was treating me as if I was stupid for not grasping things quickly, and also immediately came to me with the assumption that I fucked up for someone else's mistake. Her tone then shifted with that person. It's a new store so the system isn't perfect either, there's a few blindspots. A lot of things to do. I gotta clock in soon but I'm already dreading it. It's only my third day there as well. Ugh. I just wanna make mistakes without being reprimanded for it.

Like many others right now, I am in the job hunt and have been for quite some time. First and foremost I am grateful for the current job I do have (Delivery Driving), but I loathe being in a job where there isn't much brain requirement and it's eating me alive. I'm trying to maximize my potential for interviews while being mindful of how long I spend on each job I apply for. For companies I know or have heard of I occasionally look on their website for listings, but I've mainly been looking at indeed or LinkedIn. Are there any other job sites I should be visiting with a healthy amount of listings? Someone I ran into a couple weeks ago reminded me about temp agencies, which I would agree are a good segue into a full time role.

Secondly, I don't want to waste others time on job postings I don't feel qualified for, but I also want to give myself enough credit to say "I think I'd be able to do that" when looking at a job posting. Am I wasting my time? Do people immediately look at an unrelated resume and say "not bothering here"? I'm confident enough in what I know and what I can speak on based on my experiences, and follow through on the job having done so on multiple occasions.

For context, I am 31 now - I've been working since before I was 16, first doing menial jobs like lawn care, data entry etc. I've spent the last 14 years in and out of Graphic Design, having spent 2-3 years at each of the places I've worked for. I would like to think my previous supervisors/colleagues would have decent things to say about my contributions and work ethic as well as be able to recommend me, but sometimes I wonder if they have been contacted and that has been the reason I've not gotten the job. What are your experiences with references and do you think they've made a huge difference in applying? I'll keep the post as short as this, but would love an open discussion here.

Thanks in advance!

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.

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?

What jobs are actually in demand?

Let's say I'm looking to exit IT. What options could work well for someone with my background?

What work is actually looking for people, instead of saturated by qualified applicants?

Recently got offered a new job, need to do background check, its being done via HireRight. So far the worst customer service I've ever had, they keep asking me for the same information over and over even after calling and asking to clarify what info was needed.

Please tell me they get their act together eventually. I really want this job.

Any help is really appreciated please be kind.

25F Moving to Aus from the UK on PR visa, able to apply for full citizenship within 90 days of arriving.
Currently a teacher in the UK (degree qualified) absolutely hate it, the pressure, low pay, emotional burn out, behaviour etc.
Looking to change careers when I arrive and at the moment I have 2 options:
Msc in Environmental Science (I want to work in conservation and ecology not consulting).
Join the ADF as an officer (hydrology/intelligence) but it will take me about 3 years before being able to join after arriving in Aus, I need to wait 12 months before applying and I can see recruitment rakes a long time which means I don’t know what to do for work in between.

Questions:

I have read a mixture of things about environmental science in Aus, is there a good market for conservation? I want to decide if I should do the Msc or not because in the UK these kind of jobs are great I’m not sure about Aus.

Any job recommendations while I wait to try and get into the ADF not education based?

Any other job options I could go into o

So I just started a new job last week and it’s off to a little bit of a rough start. The training has been pretty nonexistent for the most part so far. Every job I’ve had before usually my manager or a senior employee would kind of show you the ropes and maybe train you on a task or two and then check in every now or then to review your work or ask if you need any help or questions. At this job so far there’s been none of that (maybe because it’s a large company?) Anyways last week my manager was there for like 3 days and then went on PTO. I was given a small project to work on before they left (with basically little to none training), but I tried my best to figure it out and write down any questions I would have for when my manager returned. I figured this week when my manager returned they might want to review my work and maybe talk about any questions I had but I haven’t even received any feedback from them at all. I told them that I completed the project and they said okay and then just disappeared and never followed back with me. I was also given a bunch of training videos to watch going over different reports or tasks that I’ll eventually have to do. So I guess their form of training is just having me watch a video while I do it for the first time with no further explanation lol.

Idk this is my third office job post college and I’m just getting really weird vibes at this place. I’ve come to find out that like half the team had previously quit or left this year. Weirdly enough too the only people who have offered me any help or guidance are the two people on my team who just started a few months ago.

What’s the most creative wording you’ve used to resign from a job that has undervalued and overworked you for years (i.e most workplaces)?

I’m not wanting to burn bridges, but I want my resignation letter to give a very pointed tone.