Landing a job these days is much more complicated than it was around a decade ago. In a 2023 survey, 70% of 1,500 job seekers admitted they needed to put in more effort than usual, and 67% found their recent job searches more difficult than their previous ones.
Dealing with incompetent, inconsiderate recruiters can be a more frustrating experience for job seekers. This list of screenshots of email and text exchanges between talent acquisition professionals and candidates revolves around that theme.
They’re all from the Recruiting Hell subreddit, a safe place where job hunters can share their woes and grievances.
If you’ve been through an exasperating job hunt, these stories may make you feel empathy or echo the same annoyance these people felt.
#1 Found This On Linkedin, Thought It Probably Belongs Here…lol
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#2 Solid Advice
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#3 Seen In NYC, Are They Starting To Understand?
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#4 Counterpoint: If It’s Taking 6 Months For An Upper Manager To Fill A Position, The Company Should Be Looking To Fill 2 Positions
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#5 Someone Pls Try It And Tell Me If It Worked
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#6 Felt So Good To Talk Back For Once
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#7 Just Stop Please
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#8 Recruiter Moment
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#9 “How I Got A Job At Big 4 Being In My 20s.”
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#10 Seems About Right
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#11 Damn, That Felt Good!
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#12 And Being Told “You’re At The Upper Salary Band”
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#13 Solid Advice From The Man Himself
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#14 Beautiful Text Exchange With A Recruiter
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#15 Oh No It’s Totally Cool, I Love Booking 3 Separate Meetings To Be Bailed On Each Time By Someone With Crap Grammar
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#16 Ayo This Lady Working For UPS Really Tried To Get Free Labor Out Of Me Lol
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#17 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
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#18 Listen Up!
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#19 I’m Tired Of Recruiters Avoiding My Questions And Playing Dumb
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#20 Aaaahhh I Can’t Wait To Have This Feeling
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#21 Oao
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#22 Absolutely Stupid Hr
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#23 I’m So Fed Up With Recruiters Reaching Out To Me With Insultingly Low Rates For Short Term Contract Work When They Can See I Have A Full Time Job Already
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#24 Just Why Tho
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#25 Rejection Letter For A Us Remote Job. Company Thought New Mexico Was “International”
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#26 Reality vs. Linkedin…😅
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#27 Onion
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#28 It Feels Good To Reject An Job After Again After 6 Years
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#29 They’re On To Us, Boys!
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#30 What’s The Asterisk For Subway? What’s The Asterisk For!? [oc]
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#31 Was Looking At Truck Driving Jobs And Saw This
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#32 I Am Seriously Out Of Words….. There Needs To Be A Hell On This World Also For Recruiters
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#33 Applied For This Job 2 Months Ago, Now The Recruiter Wants A Same Day Or Next Day Interview. Asked Me To Use Skype To Schedule. Should I Say Noon Again? Maybe In All Caps?
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#34 Called Out For Being Stingy. Butthurt Company Further Tarnished Own Reputation With Their Explanation
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#35 Already Had A Bad Feeling About This Job So They Made The Decision Easy For Me 😂
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