u/DrBotBreath

I remember someone posting about success rates of getting hired after masking during job interviews.

I just got a job offer today which made me realize that out of the last 5 job interviews I've had, I wore a mask to every one and was offered the job 4 times.

I didn't wear a mask to a 2023 job interview out of fear of bias working against me. After starting that job, I masked constantly at work. I was poached by another team who knew me as a masked worker, and I was offered the new role. I interviewed for a volunteer role last year wearing a mask, volunteered wearing a mask every time, and was invited to apply for a job at that organization which I ended up being offered. The next job I interviewed for, I wore a mask and did not get offered the job, but I think that they had a lot of candidates and that it was simply poor luck on my part. The next two jobs after that, I showed up masked to the interviews and was offered the job.

I'm feeling proud and hopeful about the lack of judgement!

Edit: I actually got two In-home care jobs as a masked person (one of which I found on Caregiver app, and the other was for a friend's family member), so that technically makes my success rate 6 out of 7 jobs I interviewed for (wasn't masked for one, but was over zoom and advertised myself as wearing a mask in public). AND I just got offered a second position at one of the jobs I just started a week ago.

People are asking what field I work in. Three positions were behavioral health. Behavioral health jobs are often entry level and pay a living wage. It was how I got my foot in the door to do case management without a college degree. I leveraged child care, volunteer work, and service industry experience to get my first BH job.

Also working in any kind of health support gives you an excuse of masking because "I work with vulnerable populations" which makes you look more committed to the work in my opinion.

I just made a post in r/AskHR asking a simple question and got torn apart by hostile commenters assuming that there is no such thing as a nice, sincere person who isn't being "snarky." Even "Thank you!" comments were downvoted. I hate it here. I did get a couple useful and kind responses that answered my question. I am grateful for my partner to help me decipher all the negativity. It makes the job search more frustrating though, knowing that HR professionals are such assholes online.

I have several charms I'd like to hang from the bottom of a stuffed crochet project (think like prism raindrops hanging from an amiguri cloud). I am not knowledgeable on knots and want to keep the strands/chains/whatever as narrow and simple as possible, and I want the connection on the charm's loop to be very secure.

Any tutorials or resources you can suggest for the best way to use yarn to securely hang small charms without being to visually bulky (like SC on a chain-- way too thick for the look I want).

Wondering if anyone has found a kind way to say "shut up please" without losing their place.