Company Pulls Job Offer After Applicant Asks to Negotiate His Salary

One of the most important parts of applying for a job is not asking about money too early. That might sound silly or unfair, but it’s just how things are. Of course, I’m not saying you should never talk about money at any point in the job interviewing process. Once you get a job offer, …
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Workers Discuss The Benefits of Lying on Your Resume

There’s only so much you can do to get a job when your resume is not up to par. You can change the verbiage you use to describe your job-hopping as much as you’d like, but employers are just going to see the same thing: an unreliable person who can’t be trusted to stay at …
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‘Imma try to see it through’: Job Applicant Calls Out Misleading Interview Experience After Walking Out

Even in a best case scenario, a job interview is a stressful experience. You have to be switched on with a rolodex of snappy answers about how employable you are until wherever you’re interviewing eventually puts you out of your misery. It is something that few people find enjoyable, and it is even worse when …
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‘Nobody knew what to do’: Dude gets fired for harassment, uses job as a reference anyways

If you were ever to get dismissed from a role for a serious infraction, it would be common sense never to use that role as a reference—yet, doing so speaks to the delusional fantasy world you must live in that got you into trouble in the first place. Whilst working as a retail manager, there …
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Boomer Accuses Younger Job Hunter of Laziness, Gets Yelled At In Public

Anyone who has applied for a job in the past couple of years knows it’s a very tricky process. So much goes into job hunting, and it’s not as simple as being the most qualified person for a position. Job interviews sometimes feel like they’re taking place in an alternate reality; how you articulate yourself …
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Wild LinkedIn Posts Courtesy of Cringey Entrepreneurs

There’s something about entrepreneurs that makes them want to post cringe at any chance they get. They love to advise struggling workers when they themselves haven’t achieved any semblance of success. They love to humble brag about how hard they work and how having your own business is superior to working for a company in …
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‘It’s turned into a no-win situation’: Recruiter Gets Slammed for Complaining About Applicant Rejecting an Extra Surprise Interview

Job hunting is one of the most thankless and humiliating tasks that many of us will ever have to go through. The process of growing a personality shiny and corporate enough that we will receive the privilege of getting paid is painful.  Considering how incompetent some employees are, the whole process doesn’t even work that …
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Company Drags Mid-Level Applicant Through Arduous Seven-Part Interview Process

Very few jobs require an interview process that goes on for months on end. Take the President of the United States, for example. In this scenario, the American people are the recruiters, and the Presidential candidates are the applicants. It can take years for somebody to get that job, which involves months of grueling debates, …
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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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Interview Memes for Job Searching Fiends

Have you ever fumbled an interview? If you’re like me and most people, of course. It’s the worst part of the job search. Let’s talk about them. As a person who’s perpetually nervous and inarticulate, interviews are my worst nightmare. Even the most confident people I know still dread them. It’s the quickest way to …
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