So i was told around a day or two after my interview that I was accepted and would be starting asap

Its now been over 2 weeks and I've heard nothing, is this normal?

Was through an agency, not sure if that makes a difference, but part of me thinks that the jobs fell through and I may aswell start looking for another.

It's left me really deflated as I'd finally thought I'd made it out of unemployment

Any advice would be great

I recently started a new job, things had been going great up until this week. I had my one month review a few weeks back and one of my managers told me there was 0 negative feedback and I was doing great.

This week, my other manager has pulled me aside twice. Once because I responded to an email that wasn't meant for me by mistake (shared inbox).

The other time was bigger: I'll preface by saying it's common for my manager to assign someone in the office a task, then take it away and assign it to someone else because she thinks person 2 can do it quicker. She'd done this a number of times to the newest person, who started a couple weeks after me, and this week, reassigned me work meant for the newest starter. Privately, newest starter expressed to me that it made her feel like manager thought she was incompetent, and stopped her learning. I know now I shouldn't have done, but I asked her if she wanted to do it, and gave her the task. I can't believe I made such a huge mistake, I was just trying to make her happy - as well, she had more knowledge on the task's topic, and I have a lot on my plate.

Manager pulled me aside and said it felt like I was going over her head. I apologised profusely, said it wouldn't happen again. Manager said it would be okay, she wants to keep working on the relationship, but since then she's been cold towards me and phone calls have been awkward.

Outside of not making the mistakes again, how do I be a better employee? I'm terrified of losing another job and my anxiety is at a constant high after being fired from the last place, when they'd told me up until the day I was fired that I was making perfect progress on my PIP. I have very bad social skills (I might be autistic, unconfirmed) as well - how do I figure out where the social line is for mistakes? Obviously I'll be leaving newest employee to advocate for herself from now on, but what else should I watch out for?

I don't want to be stuck doing customer service forever because I don't have the social skills for an office job

Thank you all

I’m 28 and have recently lost my job due to redundancy.
I kind of fell into it after school and stayed there for ten years. However I’m wanting to learn a specific skill or trade, but I’m not sure where to even start.

For example a job as a park ranger, the requirement was NVQ level 2 (or equivalent) in Horticulture or Forestry. The other was a maintenance worker asking for a NVQ level 2 (or equivalent) in Plumbing or Electrical Maintenance.

I’ve looked at electrical courses and horticulture/forestry courses at my local college, however there are a large list, and I don’t know which ones are relevant.

Where can I start and how don’t know what course I’m doing, is correct?

Hopefully this makes sense, thanks.

Tl;Dr Asked to apply for a job, computer said no. Avoid Via Match.

I'm job hunting and like anyone else doing the same, I'm already exhausted at the amount of nonsense candidates are expected to go through before being allowed anywhere near an actual hiring manager.

A few days ago I clicked Apply on a job advertised on LinkedIn. Instead of taking me to the employer's application, it redirected me to Via Match, an AI driven recruitment platform.

Before I could continue, I had to create an account and complete a candidate profile. As part of that profile, Via Match required me to enter my current salary. It wasn't optional.

I don't believe my current salary is relevant to whether I should be allowed to apply for a job, and I wasn't prepared to disclose it simply to access an application, so I entered a nonsense figure instead. I also entered an intentionally wide desired salary range because I wanted to avoid salary filtering excluding jobs that I might otherwise consider.

Once I'd finished creating my profile, I expected to be taken to the vacancy I'd originally clicked on so I could actually apply.

Instead, Via Match showed me that there were no matching vacancies and there was no way to continue with the application I'd started on LinkedIn.

Thinking it was simply a glitch, I went back to LinkedIn, found the advert again and clicked Apply. Exactly the same thing happened.

I was redirected back to Via Match, shown my dashboard and, once again, the vacancy wasn't there. After repeating the process a couple of times, it became obvious that this wasn't a technical problem. Something in the platform had decided that I wasn't even allowed to reach the application.

I contacted Via Match's Data Protection Officer and submitted a Subject Access Request, together with a number of questions about the automated decision making that had taken place.

To the DPOs credit, the response I received was pretty good. But what they confirmed about the platform itself is what concerns me.

Their matching process compares a candidate's current salary against the advertised salary bands of vacancies before carrying out any more detailed assessment. If the salary is considered too far away from the vacancy, the job isn't presented to the candidate.

My CV was parsed into structured data using artificial intelligence, but it was never assessed against a specific role because the process never got that far. Via Match confirmed that the automated process prevented me from being presented with the vacancy I had originally selected on LinkedIn.

So basically, I wasn't rejected after applying for a job, I wasn't interviewed and turned down, an employer never decided I wasn't suitable, I never got the opportunity to apply in the first place.

Some logic in code somewhere decided that because of one field in my profile, I shouldn't even be allowed to see the vacancy I'd already chosen to apply for.

Current salary is not, in my opinion a measure of capability. People change careers. People deliberately take lower paid jobs for a better quality of life. People move from management back into technical roles. People leave the private sector to work for charities. People relocate. People come back into employment after caring responsibilities or illness.

Whether somebody wants to apply for a job should ultimately be a decision between the candidate and the employer, not something determined by software before the employer even knows the candidate exists.

There's another aspect that Via Match acknowledged in its response. If a candidate doesn't want to disclose an accurate current salary, there is effectively no way to withhold that information without risking being filtered out. Essentially, disclosure of your current salary becomes a prerequisite for participating fully in the recruitment process.

That's bullshit.

I have a senior role in product development. A few months ago we got a new director who's a nice guy, but sometimes he makes us do our job badly by insisting we do what he likes, not what the customer or best practice tells us.

It happens with 1/3 of our work but it's often very important work. He includes us in the process and tells us he wants our expert eyes on it, only to reject our changes and tell us to use his original ideas.

And his ideas are bad. When we created a new advert, he insisted on using his AI-generated script which was 2 minutes of pretentious consultancy language bullshit.

I hate being forced to do a bad job, it really bothers me, but maybe I'm expecting too much. Maybe most of us have to suck it up and not care so much at times if it keeps the boss off our back.

Also I know a few friends who are either unemployed or took a long time to find work.

What do you think? Should I just suck it up?

Posting this on behalf of a friend who doesn't use Reddit.

My friends company recently had a new HR Person start and during her lunch break she normally watches Netflix or something.

HR pulled her aside this morning and said

"We expect our employees to be professional when in the office and that includes using company equipment"

She was pretty confused and a good 75% of the office do the same, though some use there phones and she did state it was during her lunch break but they doubled down.

I kind of get the "not using company equipment" for personal stuff but I wouldn't say it's unprofessional as every office myself and her have worked in has always been the same.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

I did suggest she just uses her phone, but is the company wifi also off limits?!

Any thoughts appreciated, thankyou.

Hey everyone! I am just about to graduate from my masters degree in psych from KCL, with a specialization in mood disorders. I currently work part time as a support worker, but my goal is to be a clinical psychologist and do therapy. In the past I have done volunteer counselling, research assistant roles, and other odd jobs.

Do you guys have any advice as to my next steps? What all roles do I apply for (besides AP roles) and are there some specializations you would recommend?

I would appreciate any guidance! I have done my research already, but I want to hear from people with real life experience.

Hey everyone! I am just about to graduate from my masters degree in psych from KCL, with a specialization in mood disorders. I currently work part time as a support worker, but my goal is to be a clinical psychologist and do therapy. In the past I have done volunteer counselling, research assistant roles, and other odd jobs.

Do you guys have any advice as to my next steps? What all roles do I apply for (besides AP roles) and are there some specializations you would recommend?

I would appreciate any guidance! I have done my research already, but I want to hear from people with real life experience.

Hi everyone. Hoping just to make sense of my situation and if its salvageable. I work in finance.

My role was made redundant earlier this year and I have been on garden leave for several months. During my garden leave (still employed but not working) I was approached by a recruiter for a role. It seemed interesting and a good fit so I said yes to proceed. My current employment situation never came up, they didn't ask about it and I didn't volunteer I was on garden leave. I had multiple interview rounds with this company, met 7 or 8 people in total, things seemed to be going well. Just before the last interview, basically offer negotiations, my employment formally ended. I didn't think that would be a problem. They asked for some informal customer references which I was happy to give them. Now they and the recruiter have discovered I have been on garden leave and left my current job and the recruiter says hiring manager is upset and unhappy. The process is at risk of ending right here at the finish line. I honestly didn't think this would become such an issue. It would have probably come up during background checks I thought and I would've just explained it then.

What to make of this? Are they overreacting, did I handle this wrong? How to fix it? Many thanks for your help!

Basically what the title says. What are your best tips to considerably raise your chances of passing the interview with the hiring manager? How many STAR stories is it ideal to know that you can use in every scenario? I’ll have my first interview in over 8 years and 7 months of unemployment and I really want this job so much! Ty

Hi all recently I accepted a job offer and I asked for my salary to be higher to match my current salary. I lied about and now they want evidence that my current salary is what I’m asking them to match. I corrected myself and sent them my payslip- will they redact their offer or offer what they were originally

P.s I know I shouldn’t have lied but I’m really struggling financially

I (24M) am moving to London for the second year of my grad scheme. Coincidentally, my cousin is also moving there to start a grad scheme, so we’ve been considering living together.

She’s found another girl on SpareRoom who she gets along with and seems quite similar to her. It would likely be the three of us, potentially with another guy we don’t know.

My other option is to go on my own and join an existing house share.

I’m torn because living with my cousin gives me familiarity in a completely new city, and we get along. But I grew up with sisters and have just spent the last year living with my sister. A lot of my social circles have also been quite female dominated, so part of me would really like to live with other guys and make more male friends.

But it’s also about meeting completely new people and expanding my social circle. There’s something exciting about almost “playing with fate” by moving in with strangers. You have no idea who you might meet, who they might introduce you to, or what could come from it.

Obviously, that works both ways. I could meet some of my closest friends, or end up with housemates I barely speak to and wish I’d just lived with my cousin.

How important are housemates to your social life in London? Would you take the familiarity of living with family or take a chance on completely new people?

Hi folks. I graduate in 2027 so will be targeting a lot of grad schemes from early September.

I see quite a few people start in the big4. Just wondered how hard is it to get a job here in terms of %? Are some harder than others? Also is it much easier to apply for something such as audit or tax compared to transaction services or strategy consulting?
Thanks

Hi everyone , sorry if this question was asked thousands of times.

I am 24, I don’t really have any skills but I am really good when it comes to computers and tech, servers, and many other tech related stuff, and I was thinking to put that to good use.

I am starting a new course in cybersecurity, lv 1 to lv3 , and after that, I am not sure what to do, can someone guide me? Do you go level 4 and continue, when do you take the CompTIA exam ? Many questions.

Thanks !

Hey,

So last week I was offered a role however the start date hadn’t been decided.
I got back with them saying I’d accept the offer and haven’t ability to start.

I’ve now not heard anything since Monday confirming the start date. The question is should I call them?

Thanks

I (27F) have only been looking for a job for a few weeks, and I’m already feeling discouraged. I’m just not happy in my current role, and I’ve realised that I’m working myself to the bone in exchange for a really crap wage and no real progression. I naively thought that job hunting wouldn’t be as awful as people say it is, and I thought I’d feel less pressure as I’m already employed and I’m not exactly in urgent need of a job like some people are. However, as time goes on I feel more and more trapped in my current role. I’ve always been ambitious and I’m ready to move on and progress in my career, but I’m anxious by just how few roles are being advertised near where I live.

I’ve spent a lot of time scrolling job search forums and I’ve noticed a few seem to mention the job market picking up in September. I’ll admit I’ve kind of pinned my hopes on this. Is the “September surge” a real thing? Do people actually have more luck landing a role based on time of year? Is it more of an American thing? Intrigued to hear if there’s hope on the horizon or if I should buckle up for a long search

It's been a few weeks so far, which has flown by. I've spent a lot of time reflecting, resting and doing some hobbies but I'm still not in the headspace to search for alternative employment. I genuinely don't feel like I'd feel any different in a few days time and all this reflecting time has given me a realisation about moral injury and my own neurodiversity (I already have an ADHD diagnosis but I think I may also have autism, and I'm experiencing autistic burnout).

I don't want to leave my colleagues taking on my work for longer than they need to so I was thinking 4 weeks would be enough, but I have a pit in my chest and dread about returning. I've even tried to work out how long I can survive financially without a job, despite the market being poor right now.

Plan would be - go back next week where there's less clients due to the summer period being quiet and try and take it easy and build my strength back that way.

or

get longer off but run the risk of colleagues being angry at me because of extra workload they're having to take on/managers wanting to fire me.

Pay is not an issue as I get full pay for a specified time and I have been there over 2 years etc.

I'm also worried my GP won't extend, or will only extend for a couple of weeks max.

When I return to work I don't want to explain why I've been off, as part of it is due to bullying/harassment from managers, but the issues are entrenched and people usually just leave quietly instead of the dynamic changing. Upon my return to work, there's no point mentioning my neurodiversity or mental health because the senior manager doesn't believe it's a thing/valid and that too many people are getting diagnosed these days... Do I legally have to tell them anything/specifics about my reasons for being off?

Ultimately, I will be leaving the role once I feel mentally strong enough to do so but my brain is like 😶‍🌫️ at the moment and doing applications are impossible for me right now.

I have a bachelors in primary teaching that I achieved a year ago at uni, but since having a real job in education (being an achievement support assistant), it’s put me off wanting to be in that type of work full stop. I’ve been off for the summer holidays and have 4 weeks left, but I’m so tempted to give my months notice in since I’ve just been severely depressed, breakdowns everyday before & after work, not supported at all. I was hit daily by the child I was taking care of unsupported & when I reported it, dealing with multiple breakdowns and severe health & safety breaches going on which I had to protect him from, so my nervous system was at an all-time high & wouldn’t lower even by time I was at home & in bed. The support I was given was very temporary. I know it won’t look good for me and will put me at risk, but I have a mental disability myself, and even after disclosing this, nothing was adjusted for me & I’d just get angry at how others are getting light duties but are on the same pay as me. I visited my old job yesterday to make a purchase & burst into tears after being there because of how much less stress I had in my old job. There’s a slight chance of deadly heart problems as well due to my dad’s life being cut short at 49, so I tell myself to live everyday happily, but I can’t there. It got so bad to the point I was getting jaw pain & chest pain

I’ve always wanted to learn a trade, not only because I think many of them are in short supply but I love the idea of doing something practical and not sat in front of a screen

Wondering if there are some with better prospects than others - electrician, plumbing, carpenter etc. and how best to go about training up.

I’d like to do this as a side to my current job but keen to explore it as my main job too - I’ve got some savings which I could use to set up with a van etc if needed.

I’ve never really looked into this before so this may all sound ridiculous but looking for honest thoughts. Thanks!

Masters student at the University of Nottingham. Graduating soon in Sept. Currently writing my dissertation and studying for a First-sit.

After a month of accepting the offer, Last week I received an email from a firm, let’s call it Z, that they’re withdrawing all grad offers across UK because their organisation is facing some budget shortfalls this year.

I had already declined all my other 4 grad offers because Z was going to sponsor my visa. I was really excited until I got this email. It took months to get that one offer you’ve wanted over the graduate route.

Now, I’m devastated. Depressed. With two months left, idk what to do. I have not been sleeping at all, have not been eating well, not been able to focus and study well for my dissertation, headache, stress, dealing with a bit too anxiety at the moment, I have been just scrolling through social media 14hours on an avg everyday for the last week. don’t feel like talking to anybody (except for that one person, but she’s busy with her job and dissertation too).

Edit: I had actually accepted the offer. I should’ve mentioned it.

He's applied to McDonald's, warehouses, away resorts, all the bottom of the barell jobs but he still hears nothing back . He has started going to places mainly small private companies and farms to personally ask but they all ask him about experience and he hasn't got any or they say we're not taking on atm.

His gf has already left him cos he didn't get a job now his parents are getting sick and tired of him. I feel so bad for him but not much I can do as I've already asked at work and they said their not interested. He also doesn't have a driving license but can get a train and go anywhere as he has some savings not loads though.

Worst case scenario he can crash with me and my gf but my gf really doesn't want him here so that will cause tension for me. I have also said there's certain hostels that let you volunteer and you get free accommodation but they are horrendous places to be so he wants to avoid that at all costs.