r/BehindHiring

I thought the interview didn't go well but got the call. However, lied about have an 2 yr degree and got fired in January. Now they want proof of education and current job. Any tips?

I have the experience they make it so hard sigh.

I have applied to 70 specialized roles over the course of 4 months, and out of that number I'm happy to say I have received 4 recruiter calls. In previous years (2024) where a call meant that I was at minimum getting to the hiring manager round. I keep getting met with these AI tools instead of them note taking? My role is in Game Dev, obviously super heavy market right now. But here it goes.

1st call: Recruiter said he needed someone that used Unity. I am a person that used unity and shipped games across multiple other game projects 4 engines total, 2 proprietary, 1 Unreal and 1 Unity. His response was baffling.

"We need someone that uses Unity"

it made no sense to me. However we continued the interview, and he gave me a Rejection letter 2 weeks later.

2nd Call: I followed up with a different recruiter after submitting my application. She told me "I love your resume, I will call you Monday". I received a rejection letter the following Thursday.

3rd Call: I had a full recruiter call experience. Answered all my questions while the recruiter opted to taking AI notes for the call. Told me that next steps were the HM interview in 3 days and to standby for the email. I sent a thank you email, where he suddenly responded vaguely in LinkedInese? It has been 2 weeks since then, soooo GHOSTED is where I'm at.

4th Call: I decided to go back to apply to Security work for Overnight something I used to do. I received an email to call the recruiter for a 5 minute phone call. I was out of the country but was able to email her that I would return her call when I was back in 3 days.

Upon arrival I called her, just for her to respond, that ALL of the 8 open positions, had been hired for.
- But she said that, She received my email and just didn't respond to it.

You received it? And didn't respond saying ANYTHING at all, not the urgency of hiring, not that my timeline wouldn't work for you. Just zero comms.

So here I sit. ranting in this subreddit hoping I learn something. ANYTHING from how I've been going about this. Because a lot of these recruiters just aren't interested in letting me get to someone that will let me pass a technical interview.

(Update the recruiter from call number 2 just reposted the position I got rejected for???)

I'm just in a bad situation, I have another 30 days of funds and then that's it. I just need a job, any job but it's so bad right now. So I need to know from a few recruiters.

What's happening on your side that I can do better to prove to you that I can do the job that I've been trained in for the last 8 years with multiple AAA game credits to my name.

What can I possibly do to, get passed the AI note takers, the bad communication, and the false promises. To avoid that fate of having to leave everything behind, go into debt and move back in with my parents across the country?

Hello I am literally tired of applying and rejected so I want guidance to upgrade my skills so much in next 3 to 4 months so that atleast no one ignores my profile

Need Your guidance please

I was accepted a job offer on August 5 with a start date of August 31 contingent on background check. The background check was completed on August 8 so last Saturday morning and I haven’t heard anything yet. I don’t know if this is normal or not but this is my first professional job and I’m just an anxious ball ready to start into my career.

I’m not sure if it’s normal for there to be like a silence.

Also, I’m trying to play around with learning exactly what the job ask for so I’m familiar with exactly what I’m doing alongside the skills. I already have so I’m just trying to make sure I’m not getting ghosted now and practicing for nothing.

I will say that my biggest worry comes from seeing my application moved to completed under the inactive portion of workday portal. My mind says I’m overthinking but in this job market sitting back and waiting can also cost you lost jobs if I were to get ghosted.

I’ve been interviewing for a few months now, and I’ve noticed a pattern that’s breaking me a little. I make it through the recruiter screen, I make it through the hiring manager round, sometimes I really click with the person and walk away thinking “that went well.” And then it just… stops. No next round. Either a rejection email or, more often, silence.

It’s a weird kind of frustrating because it’s not the “your resume got auto-rejected” wall. I’m getting far enough that real people are talking to me and seemingly liking me. But something after that conversation isn’t converting, and I can’t see what it is. No feedback, no reason, just a door that closes quietly.

I’ve put so much into prepping for each of these. Researching the role, the team, the product. Tailoring everything. And doing that over and over while still holding down a demanding full-time job takes a toll I don’t think people talk about enough.

I don’t even know what I’m asking for here. Maybe just to hear I’m not the only one stuck at this exact stage. If you’ve been here and broken through it, what changed?

• ✅ Applied: 655
• 🚀 Submitted: 504

Yet I haven't received a single interview call.

At this point, I'm wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong with my profile or if this is just how the platform works. Has anyone with similar stats actually landed interviews?

i recruit india talent for us/uk teams, so let me say the quiet part. the girl with the cleaner cv loses to the guy the hiring manager already heard about, and it's got nothing to do with her being worse. he just made three people say his name before his cv even loaded, while she was told to apply and wait like a good girl.

that's the trap. we hand women "be patient, don't be pushy, let the work speak," and then the job goes to whoever was loud enough to skip the pile. i've seen a 6/10 profile walk in on a warm intro while a sharper woman's cv sat unopened in a stack of 700. nobody rejected her. nobody saw her.

so when you tell me you applied to 200 roles and heard nothing, i believe you, but you didn't lose 200 times, you fed 200 forms that were never the door. the door was the dm, the comment on their post, the ex-colleague who vouches. pushy is just the word people use for a woman who refuses to stay invisible.

be honest with me: the job you have now, did the portal get it for you, or did someone who already knew your name?

I wasn’t looking as the title says I will shortly go on mat leave and I like my current job. However I got headhunted for a job that is a global director role (currently a regional manager) so this would be a massive step up (+40k in salary as well). Tomorrow I have the second interview with the hiring manager. As I mentioned, I’m currently pregnant and about to go on mat leave. Planning to disclose this tomorrow to be transparent, anyone been in this situation or could a hiring manager/recruiter let me know what the best strategy here is? I am very well aware this could take me out of the process but feel I need to be transparent given the timing

I used to work a great job in supply chain for a hospital nearby. I was a star worker and had a great reputation. I foolishly took another job thinking the grass was greener and ended up regretting it. Before I left the supply chain job, my manager told me if I ever wanted to return they would take me back in a second. I also received a phone call from the Recruiting Director of my department where she told me they’d love to keep me and if I was ever interested in working there again, even at another location, to reach out to her.
Well, I’m interested in returning. I’ve been applying to the same job position multiple times and my resume, CV, and applications seem to just get rejected through what appears to be an AI recruiting process. I also know this company prioritizes seniority hiring so I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these jobs went to current employees.
I reached out to my old manager who I’ve maintained a professional friendship with and he told me hiring is handled solely by the recruiting department and is out of his hands. I reached out to the Recruiting Director- the one who actually called me when I left- and have not received a response.
One of the big mistakes in my life was leaving this job and I’m borderline desperate to work there again. Does anyone have advice that can help me push through the obnoxious recruiting process and at least secure an interview?
Thanks all.

I’m currently in a recruitment process in Germany for an **entry-level IT position** and I’m curious how others would interpret this.
I completed what I believe was the final technical interview a little over two weeks ago. Some time later, the Talent Acquisition Partner contacted me to say they were still evaluating candidates and that my application remained under consideration.
After another short period without an update, I sent a polite follow-up. She replied very quickly and invited me to a **15-minute video call** titled something like “Follow-up call.”
Some context:
It’s an entry-level position.
Salary expectations had already been discussed earlier in the process.
Relocation had also already been discussed.
As far as I know, there are no further interview rounds.
The recruiter has been friendly and communicative throughout.
Instead of replying with another status update by email, she specifically asked for a short call.
I know companies sometimes call final-stage candidates personally to reject them, especially after several interviews, so I’m not assuming this is an offer.
For recruiters, hiring managers, or anyone who has been in a similar situation: **how common is a short recruiter call for a rejection after the final round, particularly for an entry-level position? Would you lean toward an offer/next-steps conversation, or is a polite rejection equally plausible**

I have an interview tomorrow for a role I was contacted for a day after applying to it. I’m pretty adjacent if not in the same type of role now.

The only gap that makes me nervous is although I currently lead and mentor junior corporate professionals for the past year, I do not have official management in my resume. The posting states: "Build and manage x and y team as the company scales, including hiring, training, and performance management."

Any encouraging words of advice or similar stories?

Hi…recently had a screening call followed by 2 interviews. At the end of the first interview I asked if I would hear back either way about the decision and was told “definitely \[recruiter\] will be getting back to you” so I didn’t bother to ask at the end of the 2nd interview but they told me they believed they would have a decision in 2 weeks (today is exactly 2 weeks from that interview)

2 days after the 2nd interview I received a call from the recruiter and she told me I was in high consideration and she thinks they would have a decision by early next week (which would have been last week)

I’ve heard nothing, I emailed the recruiter on Thursday to ask about an update and got crickets.

They are hiring 5 people so I thought I had a decent chance, but I’m assuming I’m not one of their 5 picks.

I just don’t understand like don’t call me and tell me I’m in high consideration then??? I just wanna know if I got the job 😭 and ghosting just seems so cruel to do in this scenario

Im a recruiter at a startup staffing firm that works with US IT tech candidates..
So i was assigned this guy looking in to construction management/ on site engineer jobs. I applied ruthlessly. Got him literally 23 interviews in 5 months. Now its his 6th month.. we have a 6month subscription so-this is his last month. AND PROBABLY THE end of his rope with us. He couldnt get past round 2 in most interviews, he talks like a monotonous zombie (no offense but come on man you are even using an on screen stealth interviewing software to help you, show some grit?!)
Anyway, he had a final round with this really ideal company, yesterday, and we made sure he practiced hard, and everything was set, our fingers crossed.
To all of our stupendous surprises, he not only missed his interview, he also didnt tell me! I happened to see his gmail correspondence and he had written an apology mail saying he mixed up the time zones???
It was a morning interview, how difficult is it to wake up at 9 am for once man!
Either he has lost all hope, or he doesnt care!
Im just pissed at how this nonchalance has yet again wasted my time and given me (and him) nothing in return…
I’ve been able to make good money for my effort, gotten 2 of my candidates placed in 2months. I cant help it if they assign me with such a candidate, its just wasted potential atp.

A marketing professional with 8 years of experience and yet having a hard time with job search. I have been applying left, right and center but I barely get calls. And whatsoever calls I do receive happens to be the first and last call.

I’m also reaching out to people for referrals but again, nothing. I have been hearing “market is dry” but I see my friends getting jobs, my cousins boasting about their new job, and here I am, always making excuses in front of my family that the ‘market is dry’. Well, that’s been the case for last couple of years, no?

Two years ago, I had the same problem. Back then I switched to freelancing and it just paid off my bills. But that’s it. No growth. No savings.

This time, I am back to the job hunt market and seems to me that I’m exactly where I left off.

So what is it? Is it my resume? Is it my communication? Is it my ‘seniority’? I don’t know.

Please guide me. I need serious help or I’ll have to resort to freelancing again which will finally lead to unemployment and then homemaker. F34 here. Not even with a child (don’t have the financial stability to bear one and that’s heartbreaking).

I don’t know what’s next and it’s scary.

• ✅ Applied: 655
• 🚀 Submitted: 504

Yet I haven't received a single interview call.

At this point, I'm wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong with my profile or if this is just how the platform works. Has anyone with similar stats actually landed interviews?