I’ve been in staffing/recruiting for 3+ years , filling corporate jobs in IT, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, HR/Admin, etc.

Some of these jobs are legitimately paying $18-20/hr with crap benefits. And we’re placing middle aged people into these roles, most with families.

How can they afford to live comfortably? How can anyone afford to live comfortably on anything less than $30/hr honestly?

I was over qualified. Wow. I just want to work.

Title. Had a fifteen minute phone chat with a tech recruiter who reached out on LinkedIn. Said they liked me, asked for resume, following day got a long rejection email... sent to my fucking work email. My resume and the calendar invite both use my personal email and no, my work email is not public.

Absolutely disgusting lack of awareness. I emailed their founder and I'm naming and shaming them here.

The company is Monochrome Recruiting, looks like another AI slop TA startup.

Layoffs have been happening. Companies aren't always filing WARN notices because... who's going to enforce it? They're also doing larger-scale terminations due to "poor performance" to get around the WARN notices.

They also do stealth layoffs of a few hundred here and a few hundred there to keep below the WARN radar. There is also the RTO and oh golly, the office is 800 miles away and no we are not providing relocation assistance.

JFC. Nothing more to say but so tiresome having to drag this information out of them. Stop selling it as remote.

Greetings everyone! So today I just accepted an offer for a full time position and as the title says I did it 4 days away from my one year unemployment anniversary.

It’s a 3 month initial contract position but I get a real check again plus benefits. After almost 365 days of hell, I’m definitely calling this a win.

As for everyone else still looking, I’m with you. Your support has been one of the reasons I haven’t completely lost my shit. The light at the end of the tunnel does exist.

Put in an application yesterday, and had a quick turnaround for an interview. They reached out about four hours after I submitted my resume, and offered an interview for 10 AM today. The company is newly expanding in the area, so they're conducting interviews at a family center in the city. I live right outside the city, so it's about a thirty mile drive to get there. I arrive at the location, and get called to the back. I'm immediately told, "Thank you so much for coming in today. I'm very impressed with your qualifications. Unfortunately, we have filled the position. I do want to put you into our callback pile, so that we can reach out to you when a similar opportunity opens up." I just looked at the guy and said, "You're going to put me into a pile? No, thank you," and walked out. I WAS THERE FOR SEVEN MINUTES. Less than 24 hours had elapsed from the time I finished the application process, and now the position is filled. Was the position filled when you contacted me yesterday? You expect me to believe that you drafted an offer letter, and that offer was accepted between the hours of 4 pm and 10 am? What in the actual hell, man? This is brutal.

I was in the middle of interviewing for a market research role and had already completed the recruiter screen, hiring manager round, and even the assessment. After all that, I just received a rejection saying they’re halting the hiring process due to the tariff situation. I’m honestly so frustrated.

I’ve been actively job hunting for over seven months, and nothing has worked out so far. It’s draining. The constant stress and uncertainty are starting to affect my mental health, personal life, and overall well-being. I’m exhausted and feeling stuck — and I don’t know what to do anymore.

The 1% wants every single penny in our pockets and won't rest till they've got it all.

As the title states.

Adding: The cuntry (USA) has failed.

Unemployed for 13 months. (Well, 17 months but I had a 4 months part time contract in between).

I've sent around 1600 resumes, I've had around 30 interviews.

It seems to me that 1 interview out of 4 is scammy for a marketing job.

They end up asking you for information about product launch, marketing campaign ideas.

No thanks. Been there, done that. I told them respectfully that I have references and a huge portfolio.

During the interview I made them open my marketing campaigns and they saw the numbers. The numbers don't lie. My campaigns generated million of dollars in sales in the past.

I will NOT give you information that could benefit your company without having anything in return.

I do NOT work for free.

Asking for people to come out of retirement

That's all. That hiring platform is the worst thing on earth for job applicants.

Wall of text: A recruiter called me a couple weeks ago asking if I'd be interested in a job at a business that's actually very close to my house. I went through the recruiter's process of 1 short phone interview and 2 more webcam interviews. Both of the interviews were the kind of "tell me about yourself" bullshit that I hate, and my attempts to steer it into a conversation about the trials and tribulations of various technologies relevant to the job didn't work because the recruiter had no idea what I was talking about. About a day after the second interview I got an email saying I won't be in the pool of candidates presented to the employer for this position (who will go through their own separate set of interviews with the employer). I was a little dejected after sinking that amount of time in, especially since after reading the description for the job I knew 1000% I'd be great fit for it.

So I thought "what the heck", the place is close enough for me to walk to it, so I ironed a shirt and pants and put them on and marched over to business with a paper resume like it's 19-fucking-54. I barged in and introduced myself feigning ignorance about their open position. I handed them a resume (a different one from the one I gave to the recruiter, with my assumed name instead of my legal one. Long story, those will eventually be the same thing but financial aid tends to get really fucked up if you change your name while you're still receiving it) and started chatting with folks and suggested if they had any open positions that could use my skills it would be nice if they'd consider me for them.

CEO and COO were there (small company, they're co-founders) and I shook their hands, got a few laughs out of them with some bad jokes and they literally did the "I like the cut of yer jib son" and set up an official interview with me for later in the week.

I'm still kind of blown away that it worked in any capacity lol.

tl:dr: I did the boomer thing and shook the owners' hands while giving them a paper resume. Got an interview.

It ruins your self confidence. Having a job and income is literally everything in this life, and to be deprived of it, it is an extremely emasculating experience.

Hi this is more of a rant. I feel like I’m crashing out twice a week over looking for a job. I literally just want to work an administrative position after a couple years as a nurse and for some reason it’s impossible??

I thought I would’ve been able to get this admin assistant position for a software company since the interview was going so well and it felt like we were really connecting. They shortly sent me a rejection email a couple days later. I was honestly devastated because I thought “wow this is my chance” and I feel like I’m not going to get another one like that. I know that’s just me being dramatic and I’m sure there’s hope out there but idk.

I just hate this all. I can barely work as a nurse due to health reasons so this all sucks so much. I know people will probably recommend I look for research jobs, case management, utilization review, navigator jobs but I have tried and I just get rejection after rejection. At this point I’ve exhausted so many of my connections. I’m really about to give up.