u/May_dreams

Is there any recruiting job that comes with peace and a good work life balanced corporate job. It's 12 midnight, I was sourcing for my open roles, so that I can discuss the role with them tomorrow and share some profiles. Because in office, there are other work, ats management, offer roll outs, negotiation, interview scheduling, meetings. I am just so fucked up at this moment that i think that is it same everywhere else like in every company do you have to work 24/7. Can't you just clock out at 6 or max 7 pm. Why is it so tough is it just me or everyone else is facing the same issue. Btw I am in corporate recruitment in an ad agency, where each recruiter is supposed to close at least 7-10 roles per month and they work on around 10 -15 open requisition at a time.

Hi everyone,

I'm an in-house recruiter with around 1.5 years of total recruitment experience, and I had a really tough hiring review today.

One thing I wanted to ask first—is it common for associate/executive recruiters to have hiring reviews directly with the Head of TA (your manager's manager), or do these discussions usually happen through your manager? In my case, I had to present updates directly to the Head of TA.

During the review, I was asked questions like:

Why isn't this role closed?

How many profiles did you share last month?

What's your action plan?

I explained the challenge, but when he asked what my action plan was, I completely froze. My mind just went blank.

After the meeting, my manager told me I need to speak with more confidence and not just explain the challenge, but also come prepared with possible solutions. Looking back, I think she's right, but in that moment I couldn't think clearly.

I left the meeting feeling like I wasn't good enough and started questioning whether I'm cut out for corporate recruiting.

I'd love to hear from people who have been in recruiting for a while:

* Is it normal for junior recruiters to present directly to the Head of TA?

* Are you expected to always come with solutions, even when the role itself is extremely difficult to source for?

* Have you ever gone blank in front of senior leadership? If so, how did you overcome it?

* What would you have done differently in my situation?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences or any advice. Thanks!

I'm 22 and have been living and working in Gurgaon for the past 1.5 years. When I first moved here, I thought I'd stay for at least 4-5 years because it's relatively close to my hometown, Jaipur, and being near home has always been important to me.

However, over time, I've realized that I just don't enjoy living in the Delhi NCR region. The pollution, overall quality of life, and even the general atmosphere and culture here have affected me more than I expected. I can't fully explain it, but I've never really felt at home in this city.

I left my first job after a year because it was a very small startup and recently joined an MNC about 5 months ago. The problem is that I'm already wondering whether I should eventually switch jobs again, but if I switch within Gurgaon, I'll likely end up staying here for another couple of years.

At the same time, I'm someone who gets homesick quite easily, which is one of the biggest reasons I've stayed in Gurgaon. But another part of me feels like this is the age when I should explore different cities and experiences instead of choosing comfort every time.

I've been considering cities like Pune or Hyderabad because they seem to offer a better quality of life and a more balanced lifestyle outside of just corporate culture. But moving there would mean being much farther from home, and that honestly scares me.

Has anyone else faced this dilemma of choosing between staying close to home and moving somewhere that might suit your lifestyle better? Did you regret prioritizing comfort, or regret moving away?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have been in a similar situation.

I just don't know what the hell I am doing in my current role, this setup is so bad even though I am working in an MNC as a TA specialist but still my manager gives me so many resumes tells me just speak to them get me their details, then with those details she closes her roles and for me I have to do my work separately as well like I literally don't know what my KPI should be and if she is my manager and telling me this is priority and gets her roles closed first and then I am stressed to close my roles having no time to source candidates because my whole time she is taking for operational work as well. Is this normal, are you supposed to work whatever your boss says. Is it happening to only me or does everyone have defined roles they only work for them and have well defined work, what they need to do because I can't do it anymore. Sometimes I just think I want work that I can do just in my place and don't be bothered by manager but I have chosen recruitment where my performance is determined by how well candidates are performing in interviews. Fellow recruiters, how do you cope up with this please somebody guide me.

I am looking for kind of companies who have a good work life balance in talent acquisition. Currently working in adertising industry (so burnt out) I wanna switch into more of a product or financial services company for more tech recruitment role.

As in my current organization I am so sick of roles and these people don't even approve a 30% hike for offers i mean I literally feel bad as a recruiter to give bare minimum to my candidates. Then later on they get good pay they back out and the blame is on me. I hate the mindset of people here like they are so cheap can't give much hike to candidates and expect one recruiter to close multiple roles. I thought maybe I should stay and learn maybe it's the same everywhere but I am not sure if it is the same anymore.

Hiring manager expects skilled people to join immediately they don't even bother to interview 60-90 days notice period candidates. I am just so sick and done from here idk what I hate is it recruitment or is it the culture!!??

So it's been around 4 months since I have joined a new company and here people are so corporate minded and only do work talks and I feel like they don't have any life outside of work also I am unable to make them friends because it's just that I feel like it's too much politics in my office. I do have friends from my previous organisation like they were really close to me we used to have so much fun and hang out also after office. But now things have changed I know people get busy they got into new big companies with more responsibilities they might be busy but why am I the only one so attached to them it's like they are living normally but if we can't hang out we can just talk but they don't. Why is it that I am the only one more attached in friendships while others don't care and I feel like I should also be self engaged only not make any new friends but it's hard. People who used to be so close to me now don't even have time or they may have different priorities it hurts to be an adult, work your 9-5 and then come home late night and just sleep to do it all over again and have literally no one to talk to.....

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I’m currently working in in-house TA at a large advertising/media company and honestly feeling very overwhelmed lately. The work feels extremely operational and transactional — sourcing, interview coordination, negotiations, offer rollout, documents, joining follow-ups, stakeholder pressure, candidate backouts etc all at once.

What mentally drains me most:

constant pressure on closures/numbers

approvals changing after communication with candidates

highly political hiring situations sometimes

people working beyond office hours constantly

feeling like recruiters are expected to manage everything end-to-end

I’ve realized I genuinely enjoy the research/sourcing/market intelligence side much more — understanding roles deeply, org structures, talent mapping, niche hiring etc. I feel much more interested in tech/product hiring compared to the advertising/media ecosystem.

Wanted to ask recruiters working in product companies or tech firms:

Is the work more structured there?

Do recruiters still handle everything end-to-end?

Does work-life balance improve with experience or does responsibility just keep increasing?

Would really appreciate honest perspectives because right now I’m struggling to understand whether it’s my environment or recruiting overall.

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So I have been working with one of the top 4 advertising giants for the last 3 months on a one year fixed term contract, it will get renewed for sure. But just because of the environment and work culture I started looking out and got a call from Adobe for a talent sourcer and market intelligence role, it's good but on 6 months contract and is a backfill of someone who is on maternity leave. They are not saying anything like extended contract or anything so after 6 months it depends upon business needs but they can't guarantee it. Considering I will just be leaving within 3 months from here, i wanna look for a role where I can stay long term, i am ok with contract but it should be at least a year or chance of getting extended be there otherwise it will not make sense for me to again start job hunting after 6 months. What should I do??

So I have been working as a recruiter in WPP and it has been really crazy, there is no work life balance at all. My manager calls me anytime be it in morning or late night for follow ups. I am so sick of it, I come from staffing agency background and I thought in house recruitment will be a bit easier but I can't do it any further where they have literally no life outside of work and expect me to behave same as well, should I start looking out for another role or is it same everywhere like this toxic corporate environment.

If I am working in a new city but can't make friends in the office, what should I do like how do you make friends other than office life as it consumes your entire week routine and then you have nobody to chill or hangout with, no real friends, why is it so tough..

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