u/Violetwaterfalls13

I am in my 30s and currently employed at a very large fortune 100 company as a recruiter.
I have been here for seven years and basically built an entire organization within the company being a SME with over 100 employees as well as working in around 10 other functions.
I have even won a very prestigious award at my company around the creation of a team that went to do incredible things. I have glowing reviews consistently from hiring managers, executives, and my candidates.
However, due to a huge disastrous restructuring, my team is absolutely terrible and we have had a ton of turnover. I really really want to leave and I do have a pretty good lead, but nothing is official.
I have applied to probably over 15 rolls in the last two weeks and have not heard back. It’s making me pretty nervous in general but I know how horrible this job market is.
I’m currently doing the role of around three people and I have the same pay as someone my level six years ago. I know this because she was a level above me at the time and told me what she was making and it’s literally what I’m making now. This is leaving me to feel very disgruntled and just upset.

My two mentors have told me that I should start my own recruiting agency, but I just don’t feel like I’m there yet. I want to still reap the benefits of a consistent paycheck and retirement matching from a company. I did see somebody say that you should always be working on your LLC.
Should I just be creating a résumé portfolio website to showcase all the work I’ve done with testimonials from previous hiring managers?
It’s a tough time to be a recruiter or maybe anyone

I just got a $50 gift card from work and I’m so excited to spend it. I’m one of those people that gets a gift card and tries to then make purchases I typically wouldn’t if it was spending my own coin.

For context, I use a combination of drugstore and high-end product products.

My current products I use frequently: I have multiple Armani eye tints, Estée Lauder double wear concealer, four different makeup forever lip liners and the rest is Maybelline and Nyx.

I have pretty big pores and super thin under eyes. My skin also runs dry. I take a ton of good care of my skin and have prescription strength products so definitely don’t need help there.

There are two products that I would really like to get a lightweight foundation that offers coverage and also either a contour stick or a liquid bronzer. I am very cool toned but love a glow look! Also I know my gift card is $50 but I’m also willing to put in more of my own! I just think this makes it more fun 🤩

I have been an in-house recruiter for seven years at a major CPG company. In our old structure, I recruited up to senior director positions and because I was a SME in a specialized field, I often trained executive recruiters on how to find profile profiles, despite not being an executive recruiter myself.

I have two interviews this week for executive searches. I interviewed with an exec search firm and my interview with a partner was about 15 to 20 minutes and I didn’t have time to explain my strategic recruiting experience. He basically just asked me if I recruited for VP’s or not. I didn’t leave feeling particularly great.

However, I do have another interview this week with a CPG company and it would be focused on executive recruiting. We had a major transformation last year and all executive recruiting has moved offshore and I don’t even get to work on director level roles anymore. It’s basically a demotion, but it wasn’t a personal demotion. This was just the structure that TA leadership team decided I would love to go back to more strategic a senior roles.

I know I’m an amazing recruiter and all of my VP level stakeholders adored working with me and I have a lot of recommendations on LinkedIn. How can I position myself during my other interviews to show that I can recruit executives through all the difficult searches I have done previously?

I don’t have a moment of peace living on Flatbush 😭😂 yes I knew what I was signing up for but there were INSANE construction scraping / paving noises starting at 11 until the wee hours. I kept looking out my window and seeing a few guys working. Maybe it was an emergency situation! Whatever it was - didn’t get to sleep until they stopped around 2AM. This better not be the norm!!!

I have been in recruiting for a little over 10 years. I’ve been at the same organization for seven years and have been through the wringer.

There was a huge restructuring last year, which resulted in some layoffs, but overall creating a ton of more work and complexity. I used to support 1-3 functions (mostly 1 that I LOVED and would consider myself a SME) and would occasionally help out in others. Ever since the restructuring, I now report to a manager in India (I am US based) and support 10 functions at once, 15+ requisitions at a time, and recruiting in multiple countries. On top of that, I am a project manager for a strategy project and assist my manager in auditing my team that struggles with performance.
Everyone is so burnt out and disgruntled. Two of our strongest US recruiters left and countless offshore recruiters. Because I am seen as a high performer I am given the most challenging requisitions to work on and deal with difficult stakeholders however I’ve only had one promotion in my seven years here and the team is very open that they’re basically will be no promotions.
I am so grateful to have a job, especially as a recruiter, but a part of me either wants to go to executive search or start my own consulting company in the future, but in the meantime, I’m going to think of strategies to not get burnt out. I can only speak to candidates on video calls and sometimes I have seven a day so I’m gonna block my calendar to only have maybe three a day even if that makes the process a little longer. I just can’t exhaust myself to this degree anymore.

I don’t know if this is necessarily a event or looking for advice, but I welcome any thoughts?

I’m not sure if I’m looking for advice, tips, or just want to rant.

I’ve been an in-house recruiter at my current job for 7 years. It’s a huge global Fortune 500 company. It has completely transformed for the worst in these past few years (8 different managers, terrible leadership, etc).

I loved my job for a while. I was recruiting for a function I loved, I was receiving amazing recognition, was promoted, and had close coworkers. I’ve always been very stressed though - managing a very high req load, super demanding hiring managers, and asked to help out wherever needed. I was seen as the person that was able to recruit for any function no matter how difficult.

I think where the issue is now is that we had a huge restructuring last year. I am a U.S. recruiter reporting into a manager in India with all my teammates being offshore. What was an exciting position where I was working on challenging and fun creative roles has now turned into me supporting 10 different functions globally and tons of self auditing. I have to manage 15+ reqs with extreme administrative work. I think about 10 people (including a top performer in the U.S.) had quit in the last 2 months.

I‘be been applying to jobs but that can feel like a black hole so I’ve mostly been waiting for recruiters to reach out to me (3 interviews in the last 2 weeks from reach outs! Only 1 is promising).

I don’t think in-house, especially at a major organization, is for me. Between the politics, insane bullshit busy work, and KPIs that feel impossible to hit (on purpose), I’m so over it.

I’m working on getting recommendations on LinkedIn from my former hiring managers and stakeholders but if anyone has any tips or has transitioned from inhouse to agency or exec search - let me know!

I am stuck in a dead end job that I want to leave soon and I get 4 weeks paid vacation and I’ve only taken about 8 days so far this year. I live in New York City and that definitely drains me as much as it does excite me so I look for vacations to be relaxing and also in nature.

This summer, I am having a bunch of small weekend trips in places like Newport, Cape Cod and the Jersey shore with my friends. As much as I absolutely love New England I really want to see new sites in the next month or so. I previously studied abroad in Florence Italy and I absolutely loved it and I haven’t been back in around 12 years. I would love to go back to not only Florence, but potentially spend time in Lake Como or even my absolute dream destination, which is Puglia, Italy. Puglia does seem like it takes a ton of effort to plan.

My best friend lives in Paris and we potentially talked about going to the south of France in September but her schedule is getting a bit busy and I’m worried that the timing won’t work out if we went to the south of France I would’ve probably taken a flight to Italy. However, I am in no rush to do a major trip abroad. It’s more like a great idea. I was on ResortPass, which is my absolute favorite app and I’ve used it probably around 10 times in the last three years. California has absolutely beautiful resort passes that I can use at five star resorts for the day from like $45-$300. After seeing how beautiful some of the resorts are in places like Carmel and Monterey abs Santa Barbara, I feel like I can have an insanely rejuvenating time by myself or have my friends that live in California come visit me for a day or two.
My budget is around $2000 but maybe I’ll save that for Europe and do something a bit more budget friendly if I go to California.

Not sure if this is helpful information, but I frequently travel to California and Arizona and absolutely loved both of those places so this is not necessarily an exciting new trip for me but more like finally relaxing.

Any tips?!

I am stuck in a dead end job that I want to leave soon and I get four weeks paid vacation and I’ve only taken about 8 days so far this year. I live in New York City and that definitely drains me as much as it does excite me so I look for vacations to be relaxing and also in nature.

This summer, I am having a bunch of small weekend trips in places like Newport, Cape Cod and the Jersey shore with my friends. As much as I absolutely love New England I really want to see new sites in the next month or so. I previously studied abroad in Florence Italy and I absolutely loved it and I haven’t been back in around 12 years. I would love to go back to not only Florence, but potentially spend time in Lake Como or even my absolute dream destination, which is Puglia, Italy. Puglia does seem like it takes a ton of effort to plan.

My best friend lives in Paris and we potentially talked about going to the south of France in September but her schedule is getting a bit busy and I’m worried that the timing won’t work out if we went to the south of France I would’ve probably taken a flight to Italy. However, I am in no rush to do a major trip abroad. It’s more like a great idea. I was on ResortPass, which is my absolute favorite app and I’ve used it probably around 10 times in the last three years. California has absolutely beautiful resort passes that I can use at five star resorts for the day from like $45-$300. After seeing how beautiful some of the resorts are in places like Carmel and Monterey abs Santa Barbara, I feel like I can have an insanely rejuvenating time by myself or have my friends that live in California come visit me for a day or two.
My budget is around $2000 but maybe I’ll save that for Europe and do something a bit more budget friendly if I go to California.

Not sure if this is helpful information, but I frequently travel to California in Arizona and absolutely loved both of those places so this is not necessarily an exciting new trip for me but more like finally relaxing.

Any tips?!

I eventually want to go to the South of France and/ or Italy this fall. I have a Chase preferred card with 40,000 points. I currently have 4K Delta points, 5K Virgin points. Because of the 1:1 30% Virgin promotion, I’m thinking of just transferring bunch of points and adding to my already existing Virgin points. I can then see if the best flight to Europe is from either Delta or Virgin, right?

My mother is a Norwalk resident and has a wig that she got for free from the hospital and really likes it but it needs some styling.

Are there any salons that specialize in styling wigs? Additionally would love to hear other helpful resources for women going through breast cancer in the area that would be so helpful.

Tysm!

I have been a recruiter for almost 10 years, 7 have been at a huge fortune 500 company as an in-house recruiter. I have had incredible exposure at this company and have recruited for many different functions and very successfully. However, I do believe that the writing is on the wall at my current company as they are not backfilling anyone that has left/been laid off and recruitment teams are moving from the US to offshore.
There is very very little growth. Myself and other recruiters have been at the same level for 5 to 12+ years. I don’t plan on leaving unless a superb opportunity comes my way, but I am also quite unhappy with how things are going and often burnt out . It is very much so added work and responsibilities with no growth or incentive. With that being said, I am very grateful for my job and I do worry about potential layoffs.
Even though I feel drained often I think I should get a side hustle, but I don’t know what I would do. I am actually recruiting for talent management roles and I am so impressed with how much money people can make if they get into executive coaching / assessment certifications. I’m wondering if this is something that I should look into to stand out for when I leave/eventually get chopped.
Would love to hear some advice or career guidance

I have been a recruiter for almost 10 years, 7 have been at a huge fortune 500 company as an in-house recruiter. I have had incredible exposure at this company and have recruited for many different functions and very successfully. However, I do believe that the writing is on the wall at my current company as they are not backfilling anyone that has left/been laid off and recruitment teams are moving from the US to offshore.
There is very very little growth. Myself and other recruiters have been at the same level for 5 to 12+ years. I don’t plan on leaving unless a superb opportunity comes my way, but I am also quite unhappy with how things are going and often burnt out . It is very much so added work and responsibilities with no growth or incentive. With that being said, I am very grateful for my job and I do worry about potential layoffs.
Even though I feel drained often I think I should get a side hustle, but I don’t know what I would do. I am actually recruiting for talent management roles and I am so impressed with how much money people can make if they get into executive coaching / assessment certifications. I’m wondering if this is something that I should look into to stand out for when I leave/eventually get chopped.
Would love to hear some advice or career guidance

I went on a second date with a man that I met on app. He is not quite my physical type but he has a great personality and is very successful. We have great banter. He asked me out to dinner and chose the restaurant.

The bill came and he didn’t grab it. Perhaps this is because he is European (British) and the bill / restaurant culture is a bit different there. It was obvious our server wanted us to leave. He finally glances and the bill and is taking time to look at it so I go “do you want to split?” He said no.
Moments later the waiter comes to us and hands him the machine to pay and he says out loud “oh I think they split it already.” He pays and then the server waits for me to pull out my card and pay. I was so taken aback. This man is in private equity with very impressive credentials and the financial difference between us is vast. I am so turned off that he did not say something to the waiter or just double tapped. My half of the bill was very expensive.
I felt my heart sank in that moment and all my excitement disappeared. I’m not entirely sure if this was a social brain fart on his end and I should give him more grace ?

A man splitting the bill or not being generous is the kiss of death to me. We haven’t spoken since (been 2 days) and he is traveling for work so maybe I’ll never hear or see him again but it was honestly so disappointing.

Hi there. I hired a cleaning lady with raving reviews to clean 3 extremely small rooms in my apartment including bathroom, kitchen and living room. She was done within 2 hours and I looked quickly and said things looked fine. I should not have looked quickly but I was in the middle of work / trusted she would have done a good job.

I closed out the service with a tip for my roommate to come out of the room and look at things a bit further and she did a horrible job. Our bathroom shower still had hairs on the wall, kitchen floor had crumbs, etc. I had asked her to come back- we agreed on a certain time, then she changed it for 4 hours later in the evening to come which was no problem. I was running errands away from my home and she told me she was 30 minutes away despite it being the original time that she changed.

I am overall unhappy with the service. I gave a generous tip I always support people that run their own business but this was an extremely lackluster experience for the price.

Is there anyway I can complain retroactively?

Update: she arrived and still did a terrible job. I told her the exact spots she missed and she still barely cleaned. The kitchen was still filled the crumbs after she left the second time. I then told her to please clean the shower again and the hair was still there