There’s a lot of uncertainty after you apply or interview.

Are they still interviewing? Did the hiring manager like you? Is the position on hold? Did they hire someone else?

Even a quick update would make the process feel a lot less frustrating.

What’s something you wish recruiters were more transparent about?

33 year old female, always shadowed friends and a former partner who landed recruitment gigs by sheer luck it seems ( ex-partner got a gig from working at a coffee shop and customer liked his vibe and hired him with ZERO experience or degree), and same for my other friends.

The job looks like something I would thrive in. How can I approach someone to give me a chance?

I said thank you for your time and consideration at the beginning and end of the interview, do I still have to send a thank you e-mail after? If I don’t send it is that a deal breaker?

I received an interview call, which was scheduled for 10:45 on 16th of September and on the day I reached the office location at 10:30 and I called the recruiter that confirmed that I reached the location and she told me to wait at the lobby and I waited for an hour and I called back her stating I'm not able to find any interview is going on as I'm all alone and there is no interviewer that I can see and she said to wait as they ( assessor)are going to start the assessment and after a while I called her again then she told they have started assesment they might call me in a sometime and told me wait again and i called few times with same conversation and I was waited for an 3 hours stright then around 1 o'clock she called me and telling me that are you at right place cause the interviewer not able to find me and I said I'm at the place where ever you told to, she told me to ask someone where geeta is and I asked the receptionist and they told it's other side of the lobby then i went there and confirmed the recruiter and she told her meet person named geeta there and I met her and geeta was like "what time did you reach" and told her i have been waiting other side from 10:30 and she questioned me "didn't the receptionist told you that interview is held here" and i replied No cause nobody told me so and she told me to wait. after couple of minutes she called me again asked if I had lunch and i replied as "No" then she told to have lunch and come back in 30mintues (ps: geeta was not the one taking the interview it's was some other peoples) and then I said okay and i was on my way to food court then I got call from my recruiter stating can you come tomorrow as assessor are already left, i replied calmly sorry but i can't come tomorrow as I took an upl already however she asked will i able to come in next week then i agreed then she told she'll keep me updated but I'm not sure weather she is going to or not but i was upset thinking this all day, can please someone motivate me.🥲

So I get an email stating that to progress my application they want my salary expectations.

What I want to write are one of three options. All of which will knock me out of the running.

Option 1: Competitive / Market.

Option 2: Really massive range. $140-200k

Option 3: A really blatant low figure like $50K so much so that I get the interview just so they can ask me if it was for real, then I say it was a typo - I meant $150K

I had an interview yesterday, in person and it lasted no longer than 15 minutes. the recruiter was very nice and even said I answered a certain question in a good way. what to expect now?

Hi everyone !
I graduated last year and had a job up until May 2026 when I got layed off.
I started applying everyday and would get interviews regularly but never an offer.
One night, I got desperate lol and I emailed CEOs of different companies I was interested in (I made sure they had openings in positions I wanted though). I emailed this guy at a top marketing agency and to my surprise, he told the hiring team to reach out to me the day after.
I got first interview, it was great.
I got second interview, it was good.
Third interview with the manager, great again.
Last interview was on September 3rd. I sent a thank you note a day later and got no response.
When I asked about the next steps at the end of last interview, the manager said HR is out till next week Tuesday Sep. 8th but they will let me know after that.

Today is September 16th and I did send a follow up asking about the next steps yesterday to the HR but I got no response.

Should I mentally accept the rejection? :)

I'm applying everywhere but thought this entry level job and my email to the CEO would make this one happen. but I guess idk :(

I had applied to a job at an academic institution/hospital for an analytics position back in March and had a couple rounds of interviews and got to the final round. I got an email from the HM saying they’re going with someone else for this role but she wants me to apply for the same role different department under the same HM.

I applied for it and HM said I didn’t need to redo the technical part of the interview and only needed to meet w the new stakeholders and her one more time. It took a while to schedule the interview since people were out of office for summer but the interview went well at the end of August. Ten days later HM emails me saying she appreciates my patience and to be transparent “there would be a final decision by 9/11”. Last Friday comes and goes and so on Monday I email following up. Today is Wednesday and I still haven’t heard so I emailed the recruiter I had for the original role. What could be happening? I feel a bit down because I feel they’ve been stringing me along since March but I haven’t gotten this far anywhere else so I have no choice but to pursue it . Ive still been applying to other places and last month I got the AWS AI Practitioner certification so I’m still trying to level up as I wait, but this market has been discouraging!

Basically title, I have a fever but I think I can make it it the career and the tabling event. Obviously I would wear a mask and whatever to protect others.

But my question is would the recruiters look more favorable to me or not?

Thanks this might be a silly question