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Hi everyone,

I’m currently going through a HireRight background check for a Risk Operations Analyst role at a large financial services company in the UK, and I’m hoping someone with HireRight or HR experience can share their thoughts.

One of my previous work experiences is more complicated than a standard employment, and I’m worried about how it might be reported.

Here’s the timeline:

* Dec 2023: Started on a trial basis.
* Feb 2024: Signed a 6-month employment contract with one company owned by the business owner. My title at that time was Business Development Manager.
* May 2024: Transferred to another company owned by the same owner as Business Support Manager. My UK Skilled Worker sponsorship (CoS), payslip and P45 are all under Ginger Boost with the Business Support Manager title.
* Aug 2024: Returned to China and my formal employment with Ginger Boost ended.
* From Oct 2024: I continued supporting the same business, but through another company owned by the same owner in China. (The owner owns many small companies but all worked together)

This is where things become confusing.

Although the legal entity changed after I returned to China, in practice it felt like the same business:

* same owner
* same management team
* many of the same colleagues
* same WeChat and WhatsApp work groups
* similar day-to-day responsibilities

Because of that, I honestly viewed it as one continuous professional engagement when I prepared my CV.

Recently, my former employer told me that the work after I returned to China should not be considered employment with Ginger Boost, but rather project work through another company.To be clear, I’m not trying to justify fake experience. My concern is that what I considered a continuous engagement across the same owner and integrated business may not match the legal employment records of one specific entity. Will it influence my offer and should I proactively inform the new company 😭

I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s been through HireRight, works in HR, or has dealt with similar situations. Thanks in advance!

Proud to say i was here when a couple of redditors decided to start HC. Been committed to HC ever since. Was hoping to have a success story and I finally do.

Laid off May 2025, accepted a low paying job Sept 2025 ( not HC).

I figured I would keep looking for a job with actual benefits and better pay and exclusively used HC. Found 2 job posting June 15. Dusted off my resume and applied June 16, June 17 had interviews set up for week of June 22-26.

I was offered both positions. I chose the one that had great benefits and was double my current salary. I start July 20. I am so glad i was lucky enough and spending way too much time on reddit and saw a post by Ali on another sub about starting this job board.

Its a great resource, no noise, and is effective.

Thank You u/hiringcafeteam and u/alimir1 u/hamed_n

Hi! I recently found Hiring Cafe and I am amazed by it. It really is so much better than LinkedIn and others.

Just one problem: I get the feeling that the platform is too US-centered, and this is kind of limiting for people like me living in Europe or looking to work from anywhere. Even most remote jobs require US location.

I am aware I can filter and look for jobs in Europe, I am doing that and applying to the relevant results. But it doesn't seem to be as fluid and comprehensive...

So I was just wondering if anyone managed to get a job through HC in a country outside the US or a job that had no relationship to the US whatsoever.

Looking forward to hearing inspiring testimonies 🤞🏻

Appreciate HC for making my ability to find a new job the easiest it’s ever been.

Was working a role at a company for a few years and decided I wanted something else. Started very lightly searching in October and actually and got a couple interviews in the fall. I got serious and started applying everyday only through HC starting in January and got probably a dozen interviews and screenings.

Tracker says I applied to 223 jobs total but idk how far that ranges. I think I was lightly using HC last summer as well.

Anyway, I had a bunch of recruiters reach out through LinkedIn and while I got a few interviews, they lead nowhere. I got a ton more from interviews and screenings through HC.

Jan and Feb were hot for jobs in finance and then March and April were extremely dry.

I think the company I got my new job with actually posted in March though.

Settings: I tried to add as many keywords pertaining to my job as possible and filtered with brand new jobs, so 24hr posts. I mainly searched for jobs in my current city whilst having a separate filter for a different city I was interested in. I think the most important thing was that the experience filter for jobs were accurate for me.

I applied everyday at work and refreshed 2 to 3 times a day to be one of the first to apply. I think I got most responses for jobs I was at least top 20 applicants in.

The most important part is the interview tho. You need to have good interviewing skills. I tend to over think stuff and it raises my anxiety and makes my interviews bad. But at some point I just figured that the most important thing was that the people liked you and you can communicate your story well and your attributes clearly. So I stopped trying to jam every little piece of experience into my brain and stopped freaking myself out about “what if they ask this” and just went in with an even level of relaxation and confidence. This is when my interviews were the best.

Idk how I would’ve gotten a job through indeed or LinkedIn because they suck. All the jobs posted just seem like bot postings or 100 people have already applied.

Very grateful for HC. Im at a better company with better pay and a I don’t go into the office everyday.

I saw another job board yesterday and upon taking a closer look. It is scraping from glassdoor, Dice and other top players. Since scraping other people job board clearly violates ToS, I quickly email inform those players. I hope they get Cease and Decease soon.

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Context: I have a very broad skillset and I do not have a specific role I am looking for. I want to be able to filter out jobs based on skills/certifications/tools/etc I do or don't have. What I want to see is all the jobs I am potentially qualified for, but may have never thought of seeking out.

The why: The way I currently use the tool is to set my area and just go through ALL the listings. I tried to filter for specific things, but it was either too limiting or too time consuming. It would be quite natural for me to see a listing for, say, a nurse position that requires a nursing license, toggle/dropdown to set the license to NO and have all jobs that require it filtered out from my search. This way, I don't have to think of what's out there, but just go through a list . Cognitively, it is much less draining to go through a given list than it is to create one. It is also much simpler to click on something than add it to a complex boolean expression(which are no doubt hard for non-tech people).

Current state: Currently, I can manually do this in the filters either through drop downs or through the boolean syntax.

The Issue: It is pain. Right now this needs to be done proactively, which means I have to think of all the things I'd like to exclude or include. I see this being trivial for someone who is specialized in a particular area, but for me this is neverending.

Proposed Solution: Make it passive. Make it a natural part of the process, instead a separate laborious step.

Instead of listing tools and requirements as plaintext lists in the listings, add a small state marker( icon dropdown? ) besides each tool/requirement. There should be 3 states: {Yes, No, Unknown} (✅❌❔). All items should start out as unknown. As the user goes through the listings, they can directly toggle the state for any item. This should automatically update the filters, so that no job that contains an item marked as No will be shown. Listings with Yes items should be prioritized in the list.

I am hesitant to give specific implementation suggestions, as I can't quite discern what your backend looks like. If you already have a DB of individual skills, you could simply add it as a new column, if you just insert the boolean expression into some sort of sql statement(or something), you can just programmatically add a clause to the expression when a user sets a state to a new skill and modify it if the state changes. I think it would make sense for Unknown to be represented as an absence of clause. The user should be able to see and modify these manually, of course, but that's already available.

Additional benefit: This could help people passively build their skills/tools inventory that they could use for resumes etc.

Is it possible to either do or add the feature to be able to search for a job you applied to in the applied fields. Would make updating the status much easier.

Hey everyone!

New mod at HiringCafe here, wanted to follow up on a previous post, we recently bought the domain hiringcafe.com (it just redirects to hiring.cafe, it isn't a new acquisition or anything), and wanted to make sure there are no existing issues getting there. Would you please be willing to visit the website and confirm you can visit now without problems?

Thanks!

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After 2 years of endlessly searching and applying on Indeed and LinkedIn, in just a month using Hiring Café I had 3 successful interview processes and 2 solid offers from which I was able to negotiate and choose the best fit for me. Thank you to the Hiring Café team, I'm spreading the word about you as much as possible to every one I can because this does feel like a true upgrade when it comes to searching and applying for jobs.

I can’t find the button anymore. Just did a bunch of filtering and can’t save this. Really annoying.

I’ll share. I got laid off in January and I’ve been looking for work, submitting applications for what look like really great jobs but zero bites. In the last couple of months, I’ve been using HC and applied to numerous jobs. I have gotten responses/interviews from two, found solely through HC. Not sure I would have found them otherwise. Been alternating communication with the two companies. Pretty sure I’m going to get a freelance offer with one, but I’m hoping for an offer with the other one (it’s salaried). I think the freelance one can keep me going until I get something more solid. Feel like I’m in a good place though!

I'm trying to modify and then save an existing/saved job search from the job search page. There used to be a button there which made updating/saving a search straightforward. That button is missing now. Is this a temporary glitch? Am I missing something?