It’s easy to feel disheartened with the job market when you’re struggling to get a job. People can tell you over and over again, «The economy is booming! Now is a great time to be looking for a job! You’re lucky you didn’t graduate during a recession!» but if you still have yet to secure …
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Job Applicant Withdraws Application After Being Made To Do Free Labor
There are so many things that can be asked of you during the process of applying for a job. I’ve had to take aptitude tests, send writing samples, and, of course, explain my entire life in the hope that I’ll be offered the chance to perform labor. Some job application processes seem excessive; I’ve never …
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Shady IT Department Forces Applicants To Quit Their Current Jobs, Immediately Eliminates The Job They Applied For
Applying for a new job while you’re still employed is a tricky process. It’s difficult to know what order you should do things in, especially when a prospective new job wants you to begin as soon as humanly possible. You can risk putting in your two-week notice before you get an offer letter, but that’s …
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‘Career Coach’ Encourages Clients to Make Fake Degrees, Can’t Believe People Didn’t Cheat Through College
A wise inspirational quote once said, «Winners never cheat, and cheaters never win.» I learned that firsthand when I failed my US Government AP test in high school after not studying and looking up the test answers online for the entire semester. I justified this behavior to myself by thinking that our teacher should have …
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Foolish Recruiter Offers Candidate $15K Less Than Her Current Position, Freaks Out When She Ghosts Them
It’s important to maintain professional correspondence when speaking with a recruiter. Even if you don’t feel great about the prospective job, you might as well save face over email, even if you’re cursing them out on the other side of the computer. Like all things, this notion of maintaining professionalism has exceptions. If a job …
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Job Seekers Lament the Most Outlandish Job Suggestions Indeed Recommended to Them
I was freshly 16 when I got my first paid job. Devoid of professional contacts and with the bare minimum of qualifications, I had no choice but to brave one of the scariest places on the internet: the part time listings on Indeed. This infamous place bills itself as ‘The #1 job site worldwide’, and …
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Ridiculous Recruiter Harasses Applicant For Requesting Interview at ‘Noon’
There are so many people in the world who are bad at their jobs, including, but not limited to, the people who hire people. Good recruiters are communicative, professional, prompt, and transparent. They introduce applicants to the position in a way that reflects well on the company as a whole. A good recruitment experience can …
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Inept Recruiter Rejects Technical Writer With 8 Years of Experience For Being ‘Too Inexperienced’
Applying for jobs is tough; every entry-level position wants 3-5 years of experience, which makes the distinction of «entry-level» an oxymoron. Most career coaches will tell you to apply for jobs you’re inexperienced in anyways because, usually, the people writing the job ads set the bar higher than they need to in order to draw …
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Dude Leaves Job With Hilarious Marked-Up Resignation Letter Template
Quitting a job is hard. I’ve only done it twice in my life, and it’s not as simple as waltzing in and yelling, «I quit!» It’s much harder to leave a toxic workplace than a well functioning one. Nobody tries to guilt you when you’re leaving a well-functioning workplace because they know that one less …
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Inane Job Posting Demands Only 20-30 Year Old Female Applicants Over 5’2
It’s no secret that some jobs discriminate based on age and gender. There’s a reason that restaurants typically have teenage girl hostesses and servers and teenage boy dishwashers and busboys. It’s not because one group is uniquely skilled at one of these jobs but because of industry conventions. There are still incredibly legal ways jobs …
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