The former military officer said they had spent months applying through LinkedIn, Indeed, company websites and recruiters while also using AI tools and even writing a script to find job postings.
A student asking whether their software engineering brother's year-long job search with a master's degree is normal has received a sobering Reddit consensus: yes, but 70 applications in a year is far too few for the current market.
A Reddit post arguing that companies should face fines for posting ghost jobs has sparked debate online.
A Reddit post calling LinkedIn "cringe" and its content "fake and superficial" has struck a nerve — and the thread's responses suggest the platform's reputation among job seekers has never been lower.
A job seeker laid off for the second time in three years has sent 700 applications, had 20 interviews, and is now paying their mortgage from investments while facing the possibility of losing their home. Reddit's response was honest.
A post on Reddit's r/jobs has cut against the grain of most job market threads by making a statistical argument for applying anyway — and the responses from people who have actually been hired in competitive pools suggest it is not wrong.
Her résumé includes double majors in Social Work and Criminal Justice, minors in Sociology, fluency in French, German and English, and more than 200 hours of volunteering.
After HR asked him to apply through the company's system, however, a week passed before he was told the company was “going a different direction”.
A hiring manager's LinkedIn post revealing 500 applications for one job opening has gone viral on Reddit, with commenters from the other side of the hiring desk confirming the numbers are even worse than that, and AI agents are making it harder for everyone.
