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I'm sorry if this violates any rule. I'm sad and wanted to feel better by seeing others happy. Made it quickly on Antigravity and pushed it to the web. I will be really happy to see you guys there. Comment if you want the link.
Hey, wanted to share a short story about an experience I had with part of the Christian IT community, because I think it's worth people knowing.
I've been working on a free Christian app for kids for over 2 months — coded entirely by me, and it's been in closed testing on Google Play for about a month and a half.
A recruiter, from Romania (details in private) — who told me he runs a company (name in private) — is active in our community and regularly asks people for updated CVs, supposedly to screen for jobs, though nobody I know ever actually got an interview out of it. After sending him my CV a few times, I also showed him a project I was working on. A month later he asked to see it again, and two weeks after that he told me he wanted to present the app at a convention in the US — knowing I was job hunting and that a lot of IT community people would be there. He asked if I wanted to talk to the "team" he was putting together specifically for this, without saying what it actually involved.
On yesterday's call, I found out the team was supposed to work on a monetized version of my app — already at the AI design stage, made just 5 days before the call — to sell it to Americans at that same convention, for free on my end. When I asked for clarification, they raised their voice, kept saying it was "our idea" and that I just had to accept. I got removed from the call.
I posted what happened, with evidence, in our shared Christian IT group (550 members) from Romania. My message got deleted, I got blocked, and the group chat was locked for everyone — he claimed I had threatened him, a lie he deleted a day later and admitted to. Later, an admin who's a friend of his IRL, from the same church, posted an "official statement" calling it a simple "misunderstanding" and shut down the topic — even though he's an admin there himself.
I'm now blocked from the community with no chance to respond.
Basically: work for free "in the Lord's name" so they can sell it — and if you don't, you're out.
I know plenty of people genuinely volunteer their time for free in the Lord's name, and that's great when it's a real choice. This wasn't that — I was never told upfront what was actually being asked of me, and when I pushed back I got kicked out and shut down instead of getting a straight answer.
If you've had a similar experience with a recruiter matching this description, please share it. I'm not posting screenshots of my app vs. theirs here for privacy reasons, but happy to send them (and the name) privately. I know some people might not believe this, but that's what happened.
I’m beyond pissed off with Indeed now.
Half the jobs on there feel fake, half feel dead, and the rest get reposted over and over like some cheap scam to keep desperate people clicking. You spend time applying properly, tailoring your CV, writing a decent cover letter, and then get absolutely nothing. No reply. No update. No rejection. Just silence like the vacancy never existed in the first place.
And the worst part is the competition is completely cooked. You’re not just competing with people in the UK anymore, you’re competing with everyone and their dog spamming the same role from every country on earth. So even when a job is real, the pool is bloated, the response rate is dead, and the whole thing feels rigged from the start.
That’s what really boils my blood. Not just that the jobs are fake — it’s that they waste your time while pretending to offer opportunity. It’s disrespectful. It’s lazy. It’s dishonest. And the platforms just let it happen because they care more about traffic than whether anyone actually gets hired.
Indeed has turned into a landfill of ghost jobs, recycled adverts, and fake urgency.
Apply once.
Get ghosted.
See the same job back up next week.
Repeat until you want to throw your phone at the wall.
This job market is an absolute joke.
Is the market that rough for senior frontend engineers? its been 6 months now , i am losing my mind and brain, I am hating this city , i am hating recruiters, managers who just extracted infoirmation from me , rejected me even after performing well , i dont know what shall i do now,i am not even getting calls, its even more cruel for females , its getting hard ,
I cannot find a job. I finished university and thought that was supposed to make me more hireable but now i cant even get a minimum wage retail job because my degree makes me seem overqualified. If i take it off i have a huge employment gap i cant explain.
Got a temporary job that i love but it's done in two weeks then im back to being unemployed and broke. Living off the charity of others is so humiliating, I can't take it anymore.
Rejection rejection rejection rejection rejection for minimum wage jobs that are urgently hiring rejection for jobs i was invited to apply for rejection for permanent jobs at my current workplace rejection from jobs i applied to months ago rejection for jobs that i am perfectly 100% qualified for.
If i cant contribute to society what is the point of me being alive. I want to work, i want to contribute, i want to earn my own living but i keep getting door after door after door slammed in my fucking face like the universe is just telling me to neck it, there's nothing here for me.
maybe my death can inspire some kind of lawsuit against the ai hiring process. it would be more useful to the world than i can ever be alive
Lost my job in tech beggining of the year and I was in job search mode for around 3 months after that.
First 2,9 months I did it the way I was used to. Indeed LinkedIn spam my resume all over the place and nothing.
Started reading on reddit about how crap the current job market is with all the AI crap and decided to go back to basics.
I made a list of 15 companies close to my area that had open positions I would be interested it.
I rewritten my resume to be a damn near perfect match for each.
Went in and handed it over in the front desk, some accepted, some didn't. But just 15 tries resulted in 3 interviews. Ended up getting 2 offers. Got a job in 2 days pretty much. Luck? Maybe idk but it worked for me. I think this approach is worth a try.
Unbelievable. My husband and I both fell for this and we are both pretty tech savvy millennials! I applied for a very senior position with a corporation on Indeed. (These hackers are relying on the fact that you are rushing to fix the tech issue so you can make it to your fake interview). Days after applying I received an email asking me my availability for interview. Absolutely nothing suspicious yet, no grammatical errors, weird spaces, email and company names all check out.
THEN they sent me an interview confirmation and told me that they will send the invite link to me the morning of the interview. 10 minutes before my interview I click the zoom link to take me to the interview and a message pops up that says my zoom is outdated and it took me to what looked like a zoom website. It AUTOMATICALLY started downloading a "zoom" application on my laptop. I tried to open the application in my downloads folder but apple wouldn't let me open it. I went back and read the company's email from when they sent me the link and it said that their software doesn't work with Macs so the interview has to be done from windows (yes, I know this should've been what woke me up).
I started panicking that I was already late for my interview so I called my husband. He told me to get his computer and try the link. I clicked the link from his computer and the application called "serviceconnect" again started immediately downloading to his computer. I put him on Facetime and showed him the screen and we immediately both snapped back to reality and realized it was a hacker. We tried to end the task from task manager but each time we ended the task, 3 more would pop up. We shut down the laptop, changed our passwords everywhere including banking, computer, emails, etc. These scammers use real companies with real company emails and are relying on you being rushed trying to make an interview, not really thinking or paying attention closely. Never thought my husband and I would fall for something like this.
I maintain a open-source job aggregator, so I have every open posting we track sitting in one database along with the date the employer's own ATS says it went live. Got curious how much of the "open" market is actually open.
Out of 4,122,692 open postings that carry a posting date:
So roughly 1 in 4 listings you can apply to right now was posted more than three months ago. 1 in 12 has been sitting there over a year.
The year-plus pile is spread across 44,018 different companies. This isn't a handful of spammers, it's normal behavior at a huge number of employers.
Caveats, because I'd rather post this straight:
- The date comes from the employer's ATS. Some systems stamp when the requisition was created and never touch it again, so a role that genuinely got refilled can look ancient.
- A year-old posting isn't automatically fake. Some roles are genuinely hard to fill, and some companies run real evergreen pipelines for high-churn positions.
- This is only postings that expose a date. About 11% don't, and I have no idea what's in there.
None of that changes the shape of it. A quarter of the "open" market is over three months old.
The part that's actually useful. What I check before spending 40 minutes on an application:
Open the company's own careers page, not the board listing. If the role isn't there, it's dead. This one catches the most.
Same title, same company, posted more than once or reposted every few weeks. That's a pipeline, not an opening.
Evergreen phrasing. "We're always looking for", "join our talent pool", "future opportunities" — no headcount behind any of those.
Has anything changed since it went up? If the description hasn't moved in a year, nobody owns that req.
What's the oldest posting anyone here actually got an interview from? I want to know if the year-old ones ever convert at all.
I know this is long but I wish someone had posted something like this when I was in the middle of it so I'm putting it all out there.
Last year I quit my job with no backup offer. No plan really. I'd been at this company for about three and a half years doing operations work and the last year was brutal. I started getting bad anxiety, couldn't sleep, stomach issues, the whole thing. I went to my doctor and she straight up told me the stress was making me sick. I tried to work with my manager on adjusting things and asked about shifting responsibilities, working hybrid for a bit, even suggested a temporary reduced workload while I sorted my health out. Got nowhere. Lots of "we'll look into it" and then nothing changed. HR was even worse. Basically told me to use my PTO if I needed a break.
So I did the math. I had enough saved to cover about 10-11 months of expenses if I kept things tight. And I quit. My friends thought I was insane. Quitting in this market with nothing lined up. But I was at a point where I couldn't think straight at work anyway so staying wasn't really doing me any favors either.
**The first three months I didn't job search at all**
I just stopped. Slept. Went outside. Started seeing a therapist every two weeks which I should've done way earlier. The first few sessions were rough because I didn't even realize how wound up I was until I started unwinding. My therapist helped me work through a lot of the guilt around quitting and this pattern I had of tying my self worth to being productive at work. By month three I actually felt like a normal person again. Could think clearly.
That's when I started looking.
**Month one of searching was a disaster**
I did what everyone says to do. Updated my resume, wrote cover letters, applied everywhere. I'm talking everything that was even close to my experience. Operations analyst, project coordinator, business ops, program manager, whatever had the word operations in it basically.
Applied to 142 jobs in about five weeks. Got ghosted by probably 90-95% of them. Got maybe 11-12 screening calls. Made it to a second round twice. Zero offers. Nothing.
It was demoralizing in a way I wasn't ready for. You start wondering if something's wrong with you specifically. Like is it the gap on my resume. Is it the market. Am I just not as good as I thought I was.
**Month two I tried the networking route**
Shifted strategy. Started reaching out to old coworkers on LinkedIn. Hit up a few people I'd worked with at previous companies. Went to a couple of local meetups. A few people said they'd keep an ear out or pass my resume along. One guy told me about an opening at his company and said he'd refer me.
None of it turned into anything real. Just a lot of "I'll let you know" and then silence. I'm not blaming anyone … people are busy and the job market is rough on the hiring side too. But two months in with nothing to show for it I started to spiral a little.
**The thing that actually changed things**
I called my old manager from my first real job out of college. He's one of those people who doesn't sugarcoat anything which is exactly what I needed. I told him what was happening and he asked me something that caught me off guard. He said stop telling me what jobs you're applying to and tell me what you're actually good at.
I gave him the generic answer about being organized and good with cross functional teams and he basically said yeah that's what everyone says. He pushed me to think about it differently. Instead of looking at job descriptions and trying to match myself to them, he wanted me to figure out what I actually bring to the table and then find roles that fit that. More like reverse engineering it.
He also pointed out something I hadn't thought about. A lot of the skills I was listing on my resume were the exact things companies are starting to automate. Data entry, reporting, basic project tracking. He said I needed to figure out what I could do that a tool couldn't and lead with that.
That conversation messed me up for like two days because I realized I'd been applying to jobs on autopilot without really thinking about whether they even made sense for me. Which is probably why nothing was landing.
**So I did the uncomfortable work**
Spent about two weeks just doing self assessment stuff. More like trying to get an actual picture of where I fit instead of guessing.
I did a few different career assessments. One was through pivoto. tools which is more of a misalignment check which basically helps you see where your current path doesn't match how you actually work. That was eye opening because it showed me I'd been chasing roles that looked right but were a bad fit for how I operate day to day. Then I did Pigment which was more about strengths and adaptability to different types of roles. That one helped me see patterns in what energizes me and why my last job was such a bad fit beyond just the environment being toxic. Also did CliftonStrengths which I'd heard about for years but never tried. That one was more about natural talents.
Between the three of them I started seeing overlap. I kept showing up as someone who's good at building systems and solving problems but bad in roles where I'm just maintaining someone else's process with no room to improve it. Which was literally my last job. I was stuck executing a broken system and getting stressed about it while being told not to change anything. No wonder I was miserable.
**Then I fixed the practical stuff**
Took my resume and ran it through a couple of ATS focused resume tools to make sure it was actually getting past the filters. Rewrote it based on what I'd learned about my strengths instead of just listing every responsibility from my last three jobs. Made it way more specific about what I'm good at and what kind of impact I've had.
Then I did mock interviews using Claude and ChatGPT. I'd paste in a job description and have it interview me. Sounds weird but it was incredibly useful because I realized how different I sounded compared to what my resume said. My resume was all polished AI language and then I'd open my mouth and sound like a completely different person. So I kept practicing until the way I talked about my experience actually matched what was on paper. Or more accurately I rewrote the paper to match how I actually talk about my work.
(**btw none of the tools I mentioned are recommendations and that shouldn’t be the focus. I don't even know if they'd work for everyone. I'm just listing what I personally used, so do your own research.**)
**Two months later I had an offer**
Not from a mass application. From a targeted search where I actually knew what I was looking for, could explain why I was a fit, and didn't sound like I was reading off a script. The role is in operations but it's a building and improving type role, not a maintain and report type role. The difference is massive.
**What I'd tell someone in the same spot**
Stop applying to everything. It feels productive but it's not. 142 applications got me nothing. Knowing what I was actually looking for and applying to maybe 30 targeted roles got me a job.
If your job is making you sick, take that seriously. I waited way too long and it cost me. The gap on my resume has come up exactly once in an interview and I just said I took time off for health reasons and nobody pushed further.
Do the self assessment stuff even if it feels stupid. I rolled my eyes at it too. But I genuinely didn't understand why I kept ending up in roles that made me miserable until I looked at the pattern. Sometimes the environment is the problem. Sometimes it's a mismatch between how you work and what the role needs. Usually it's both.
Fix your resume so it actually gets past the screens but make sure you can back it up in person. The gap between the AI version of you and the real you will kill your interviews if you don't close it.
And talk to people who knew you when you were good at your job. Not people who'll just gas you up but people who'll tell you the truth. That one phone call with my old manager did more than two months of applying ever did.
It took me eight months from quitting to getting an offer. Three of those were recovery. Two were wasted. Three were focused. I wish the ratio had been better but I'm glad I figured it out eventually.
Happy to answer anything if people have questions.
About 8 months ago, my partner got laid off and started applying to jobs. She'd send out 15-20 applications a week and hear... nothing. Not rejections. Just silence.
I'm a developer, so I started digging into how ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) actually work under the hood. I ran thousands of tests with different resume formats, keyword densities, and layouts against real ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, and Taleo. Here's what the data showed.
You've probably seen the claim that 75% of resumes get rejected by ATS before a human sees them. I believed it too. But after digging into how these systems actually work, the truth is more nuanced and honestly scarier.
A recent survey of 630 recruiters found that 92% say their ATS does NOT auto-reject based on content. The system isn't saying "no" to you. It's just... never surfacing you. Recruiters search the ATS like a database. They type in keywords, filter by job titles, set experience ranges. If your resume doesn't match what they search for, you simply don't exist.
You're not getting rejected. You're invisible.
This was the single biggest finding. Resumes that matched the exact job title from the posting in their header/summary got callbacks at 10.6 times the rate of resumes that didn't.
Not a synonym. Not a creative interpretation. The exact title.
If the job posting says "Senior Product Manager," your resume should say "Senior Product Manager" - not "Product Lead" or "Head of Product Strategy." ATS keyword matching is still largely literal, and 99.7% of recruiters use keyword filters to sort applicants.
This is free. It takes 30 seconds per application. And almost nobody does it.
This one hurt to see. Designers, marketers, and creatives consistently had the worst pass-through rates - not because they were less qualified, but because their resumes were unreadable to machines.
The biggest offenders:
\- Two-column layouts. ATS reads top-to-bottom in a single stream. Two columns get scrambled - your job title from column A merges with a skill from column B. It's gibberish on the other end.
\- Fancy icons and emojis. That cute phone icon next to your number? The ATS sees U+260E or just a blank. Your contact info becomes noise.
\- Non-standard section headers. "My Journey" instead of "Work Experience." "Toolkit" instead of "Skills." The parser doesn't know where to put that information, so it dumps it in a miscellaneous field nobody searches.
\- Info in headers/footers. Most ATS straight up ignore header and footer content. I saw hundreds of resumes where the candidate's name, email, and phone number were in the header - meaning the recruiter's system had no idea who they were.
Resumes needed 25-35 relevant, role-specific keywords to consistently score above 80% in ATS matching. Below 25, you're not surfacing in enough recruiter searches. Above 35 and you start tripping the keyword-stuffing detectors.
Here's the thing - 83% of companies now use AI-assisted screening. The old trick of pasting the job description in white text doesn't just not work anymore - newer systems flag it. Your resume gets penalized, not boosted.
What does work: naturally weaving in the specific terms from the job posting. Not synonyms. Not abbreviations (unless the posting uses them). The. Exact. Words. There are good apps that do it for you like Jobowl.co
"Adobe Creative Cloud" and "Adobe Creative Suite" are different strings to a parser. Match what the posting says.
One of the weirder findings: inconsistent date formats caused ATS systems to miscalculate total experience. I saw resumes where candidates had 8 years of experience but the system calculated 3 - because they mixed "Jan 2019," "2019-01," and "January '19" across different roles. Pick one format. Use it everywhere. "Month Year" (e.g., "Jan 2020 - Mar 2023") parsed most reliably across the systems I tested.
Only 2-3% of applications result in an interview right now. That sounds brutal, and it is. But here's the flip side - most of that 97% is getting filtered out for completely fixable reasons.
Bad formatting. Missing keywords. Invisible contact info. Creative headers that confuse parsers.
The bar for a technically optimized resume is shockingly low because most people don't know these rules exist. You don't have to be the best candidate. You just have to be visible.
TL;DR - the quick-fix checklist:
\- Match the exact job title from the posting in your resume header
\- Use single-column layout, no tables, no graphics
\- Standard section headers: "Work Experience," "Education," "Skills"
\- Keep contact info in the body, not headers/footers
\- 25-35 keywords pulled directly from the job posting, use tools like Jobowl.co for this
\- Consistent date formatting throughout (Month Year)
\- Save as .docx unless told otherwise
\- No icons, emojis, or decorative elements
\- Don't keyword-stuff - AI screening catches it now
I work in a niche branch of healthcare, and have been trying to escape a bad situation at my current job. I have over 6 years of experience in this field and hold an additional certification as well. Today, I received this email:
“Thank you for applying at [our company]. We appreciate your interest in joining our team.
The next required and important step in our hiring process is to complete the WonScore employee assessment. Please use the link below to get started: [link]
WonScore will assess three areas:
Cognitive Ability – your ability to learn, adapt, and solve problems
Motivation – your personal work drivers
Personality – your natural tendencies in the workplace
We encourage you to dedicate focused, uninterrupted time to complete the assessment thoughtfully, as it plays a key role in our interview selection process. Most candidates complete this assessment in about 45 minutes.
Once completed, we will then review your results and follow up with you within five business days.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this important part of our hiring process. We look forward to learning more about you.
Best Regards,
[Practice Manager].”
Please note that I have removed identifying details, but the rest is copy/pasted verbatim. To say I’m shocked and disgusted at their audacity is an understatement. I’ll interview with companies who actually value my time instead.
Hey everyone.
I'm writing because I have been on the job search for five months. I was let go while fasting during Ramadan, and a few months later a beloved family member died. My adoptive dad is really sick and thinking of moving out of the country. I am struggling to pay my mortgage and make it by with unemployment. I'm married and have four cats. So there's a lot on the line for me and my little family.
To the subject of a job application. I was feeling really good about the opportunity. I have been applying to open positions, even got to an intro interview, and have spoken to members of the organization on LinkedIn. Last week, I was able to get a member of the company to submit a referral for my application. Still insta rejected...
I'm feeling pretty bummed about this one because of the effort it took to get the referral and just in general, this has not been an easy year.
The Question: Have you ever asked a company to reconsider your application? Is it worth it? Any advice I may be missing also welcome.
TL;DR: After a ton of rejections, I want to know... Is it possible to ask for a company that rejected you to reconsider?
My friend has been job searching for 4 months with barely any callbacks. She asked me to look at her resume (I've done some hiring in previous roles) and found some issues that are really common but easy to fix.
Posting here because I see these mistakes constantly:
Her resume looked gorgeous. Clean design, two columns, very professional.
Problem: ATS (applicant tracking systems) read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. They can't handle columns. Her resume was being parsed as gibberish.
When I ran it through an ATS simulator, her job titles were getting merged with dates from the other column. Instant reject before a human ever saw it.
Fix: Single column. Boring but functional.
Her bullets were things like:
\- "Responsible for managing social media accounts"
\- "Handled customer inquiries"
\- "Assisted with event planning"
These tell me what she did, not how well she did it.
Better:
\- "Grew Instagram following from 2K to 15K in 6 months through daily content strategy"
\- "Resolved 50+ customer inquiries weekly with 95% satisfaction rating"
\- "Coordinated 12 company events for 100+ attendees each"
The formula: \[Action verb\] + \[what you did\] + \[measurable result\]
She was applying to marketing roles but her resume didn't include words like "campaign," "analytics," "SEO," "content strategy" - all common requirements in the postings she was targeting.
ATS systems often filter by keyword matching. If you're missing the key terms, you don't pass the filter.
Fix: Look at 5 job postings you want. Note the terms that appear in all of them. Make sure those words are in your resume (naturally, not stuffed).
This takes up space and tells them something they already know. Everyone has references available upon request.
Delete it. Use that line for an actual accomplishment.
She had: "Seeking a challenging role where I can utilize my skills and grow professionally."
This tells the employer nothing. Everyone wants this.
Either delete it entirely or replace with a 2-line summary that specifically says what you bring: "Marketing coordinator with 3 years of B2B experience. Specialized in social media growth and event marketing. Increased engagement 40% at previous role."
The result:
We fixed these five things. Took maybe 2 hours total.
She applied to 15 jobs the following week with the new resume. Got 4 callbacks.
Was it the resume changes? Can't be 100% sure, but she'd sent out 60+ applications before with almost nothing. The timing is suspicious.
Anyway, hope this helps someone. Resume stuff is tedious but it matters more than people think.
I was working at this IT consulting company in Milan for like 4 months as a developer, salary was €3.5k/month and thats what we agreed and signed for.
Then one day my manager calls me saying the company was “reviewing costs” and asked me if I was open to reducing my salary. Like wtf?? We alredy signed the contract
I said no obviously. I wasnt even rude about it, just said no sorry im not accepting a lower salary than the one we agreed on. Am I wrong?
Now every small thing became a problem, random criticsm, passive agressive messages, getting micromanaged for stupid sh. I knew it was coming
Then few weeks later they fired me for “bad performance”
Crazy part is before the salary discussion nobody ever never ever complained about my work
Now I actually have a pending lawsuit with them because this whole thing feels shady as fuck honestly and Inhave no intention of getting scammed by another corporate. WTH of a world we live in?
If anybody of you is in a lawsuit with a previous employer pls let me know what happened and what did you do bc I don’t really know how to move
Scammers use this to place malware on your computer!
Applied for a job, automatic email comes in inviting me to an initial AI screening interview.
Fine, lets do this
One of the easier ones, for sure!
Genuinely curious what ya'll plan to do if it doesn't work out. For me, I'm going back to college and wait it out.
I kept seeing this advice on TikTok. Don't apply online. Just message people on LinkedIn and ask for a 15 min coffee chat (virtual). No asking for a job. Just "informational interview." So I tried it for two weeks. I messaged 25 people. All of them worked at companies I wanted. I wrote a short message: "Hi, I admire your work in X. Would you have 15 min for a quick chat about your career path? No pressure."
Out of 25, only 8 replied. 5 said "sorry too busy." 3 said yes. I had chats with all 3. One was super nice and gave me really good feedback on my resume. One was awkward and kept checking his phone. The third one actually said "we dont have openings now but send me your resume anyway." I did. She forwarded it to a hiring manager. I got an interview.
I didnt get the job. But I got to the final round. That never happens when I just spam apply on Indeed. The downside? It takes so much time. Writing 25 personalized messages took me like 6 hours. And the rejection stings. Some people just left me on read. One guy said "stop bothering people for free labor." That hurt.
But I think I'll keep doing it. Just less. Maybe 5 messages a week instead of 25. Has anyone else tried this? How do you get over the embarassing feeling of begging for attention?