#recruiters

One of the toughest challenges I've been having is communicating with recruiters for design positions. I feel like the layoff is the only place I can say my frustrations without being ostracized. I know if I were to post about this on linkedin, I would get praise and backlash.
I've done several jobs for nike over the last 5 years but can't seem to get out of the contract limbo. I've interviewed with them several times only for the position to go to a contractor already on the team. Feels like ghost jobs at this point.
I'm not sure if there's a hiring freeze but I applied for a position 5 months ago and heard nothing back. I would think the position should be taken down until the freeze is over. Recruiters seem to never respond to my linkedin message. It just feels very unorganized given the climate we're in.

Noticed my LinkedIn page has been getting views from cognizant recruiters starting last week, so I’m guessing my time has come. Has anyone heard news on what’s coming first week of June?
Also, how does the transition to cognizant work, does our compensation change? Does your job grade have anything to do with the separation process?

For those who recently landed a new job:

• How long did your job search take from the time you started applying until you accepted an offer?
• What was your overall approach (networking, recruiters, direct applications, referrals, etc.)?
• Roughly how many applications, interviews, and final-round interviews did you go through?
• What do you think made the biggest difference in helping you land your new role?
• Looking back, what would you do differently if you had to start your job search again?

I’m trying to get a realistic sense of today’s job market and learn from strategies that actually worked.

Sorry to those impacted today. Notifications have gone out and will continue throughout the morning. I recommend updating your LinkedIn profile to “Open to Work,” as recruiters may reach out given awareness of today’s layoffs. If you choose to engage, please ensure they are from a reputable company.

Just one inch of power in this job market and they have become the mean girls from high school again.

When do your manager find out if you have been speaking to an internal recruiter or interviewing?

Received an email from internal recruiter for a role two level higher than me.

But I don't want my manager to know I'm speaking to recruiter or going through the interviews until the offer is finalized.

Any thoughts?

When you are recommended by hiring managers to apply and go through interviews and then just receive nothing, is normal now? Even following up with recruiters and hiring manager and no reply is standard here?

Anyone else been laid off from Nike over the past year or so and only being contacted by temp recruiters for Nike? It is literally driving me nuts.

For your job seeker out there, beware of the Indian recruiters who immediately wants you to sign a right to represent. Once you sign this right to represent, your résumé goes in the trash and they promote their Indian friends and family. Just don’t sign it and tell them thank you very much. It is a deceptive practice on their part. I have been the victim of this so I speak from experience.

Happy Friday! Could someone share details on a recruiter at Comcast that I can contact.

I was a contractor at Exxon a few years on a year long contract. When they got rid of me after I got their project done faster than expected they told me I was more than welcome to come back.

I have had at 4 instances where I was the right person for the job and right when things get moving in the right direction i get ghosted. Apparently I am not the right person to play in their dollhouse, which is fine. THEN STOP CALLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because you like wasting your time doesn't mean others like it. And judging by the posts on this site, a lot of others don't like it either.

So instead of prank calling people to come play at your unrewarding shitehole, just grow up and do something productive like seggs work on 45!

Four years in and my last raise was only 2 percent, but a recruiter just reached out for a similar job that pays 15 percent more. It’s frustrating realizing staying put can cost you this much. Makes me wonder if loyalty to one company is really worth it anymore.

These damn recruiters keep insisting on manager references and I keep telling them they won't provide a reference.

How have folks circumvented this? I'm in a catch-22 where I can't give them a reference, yet they keep insisting it's necessary, no matter how many times I tell them to go to theworknumber.com.

I've had to dig out references from years back from people who no longer work at WF, but that's slim pickings.

Our place stack ranks for reviews and it's terrible for morale. What about in office hours? When you rto do they mandate hours? 8 min? What about activity and keystroke reports? The salary is comparable but rto five days is a red flag. I can't ask the recruiter some of these things but they matter for quality of life.

Soon Statestreet will be in the news for fraud in recruiting. Postings already have a preferred candidate. Managers do fake interviews involving external
candidates. Even internal
candidates are taken for a ride. Recruiters will be fired for being accessory to all this.

So many people are going for same job. Some jobs I’m overqualified and recruiters think I’m not going to stick around. It’s rough out there!

There is no hiring freeze, recruiters are slow to process applications with horrible new database. I interviewed for 2 different positions and each job had a different recruiter. I told each that I applied to one position but my information disappeared. I thought I did something wrong so I did it again and it stuck. But it happened again on my second application with the other job. Both recruiters said that it is a common occurrence. They didn’t bash the system or say anything negative but it’s obvious they’re pi---d off.

What does that mean? What can I expect? New to Citi and workday

I am in my early thirties and have been here long enough to see how fast things shift. FIDO still opens doors when recruiters scan a resume, but that window feels smaller each year. I am focusing on learning what I can and staying realistic about how long the shine lasts.

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-tech-employee-struggling-find-job-work-shares-journey-frustrations-2025-12

A former AT&T worker has been job hunting for 3 years. Recruiters keep telling him to embellish his résumé.
By Jacob Zinkula - Dec 7, 2025, 4:40 AM ET

Miles Bradley has struggled to find work for three years after losing his AT&T contract role.
He believes some companies are seeking the perfect "Goldilocks" candidate in a competitive job market.
Bradley said he's coped with long-term unemployment by minimizing expenses and staying optimistic.
After more than three years of job hunting, Miles Bradley suspects his best chance of getting hired may be a strategy he refuses to try: lying on his résumé.

Bradley has been searching for work since October 2022, when he was let go from a contract software engineering role at AT&T. He said he's connected with several recruiters during his search, and that some have asked him to tailor his résumé to better align with a job posting — requests he's been happy to accommodate.

However, Bradley said some recruiters went a step further — making significant changes to his résumé without his approval, which he felt didn't accurately reflect his experience and qualifications. These changes appeared to help him land a few interviews, but once he realized which résumé had been used, he declined the opportunities and stopped working with the recruiters.

"I was like, 'wait, this résumé doesn't represent me at all, and I'm not ethically going to do this,'" said Bradley, who's in his late 50s and lives in New York.

Bradley is among the dozens of Americans Business Insider has spoken with over the past year who are struggling to find work. Amid economic uncertainty, the early effects of generative AI adoption, and a trend toward streamlining operations, US businesses are now hiring at one of the slowest rates since 2013. Job openings have fallen sharply since peaking in 2022, when they exceeded 12 million, to about 7.2 million as of this past August, the most recent data available.

In a competitive job market, some job seekers are willing to try just about anything to get hired. While stretching the truth on a résumé or during an interview, for example, might pay off, the strategy also comes with significant risks.

Some companies could be holding out for the perfect candidate
Bradley said he's concerned that a competitive job market encourages résumé embellishment by both recruiters and job seekers — and that it's hard for him to compete with fabricated applications.

If companies are patient enough, he thinks someone with the ideal résumé — embellished or not — will often eventually come along. And when that happens, Bradley said, he can't blame companies for choosing the candidate who appears to be the safe, logical option — even if they might not actually be the best person for the job.

"The industry has become addicted to finding the 'Goldilocks' candidates," he said. "They want to have somebody that exactly fits what they're looking for."

There's evidence that companies have become slower to fill job openings, whether due to economic uncertainty or the desire to find the perfect candidate. In October 2019, about 91% of job postings from companies in the Russell 3000 — a stock market index that tracks the performance of the 3,000 largest US public firms — were filled within six months, according to data shared with Business Insider by Revelio Labs. Of the jobs posted in October 2024, fewer than half were filled within the same six-month timeframe.

While Bradley prefers to be as honest as possible on his résumé, he said he's become comfortable being somewhat flexible with certain details. For example, he said he might present certain skills or experiences as more central to his past work than they actually were. However, he's careful not to include anything that he believes would misrepresent who he is or what he's actually done.

Coping with long-term unemployment
In his final days on the job at AT&T, Bradley said he did his best to "exit gracefully," which included training his replacement and ensuring his main project was in as good a shape as possible.

Once he officially left, he began searching for work, targeting engineering manager- and director-level roles. As his job search has dragged on, he said he has also explored product management and business analyst roles, and even applied for a barista position at Starbucks. Despite submitting hundreds of applications, he's still waiting for an offer.

Job-hunting for three years has taken a toll on Bradley's finances, but he said he's fortunate to have support from his partner and family. In addition to that financial help, Bradley said he has been able to get by because he has become a "hyper minimalist." He said he used to have multiple cars, but now drives a single 15-year-old vehicle.

"It means I don't get anything that I don't need," he said. "I've reduced it down to a couple of backpacks' worth of stuff."

Bradley is among the Americans dealing with the economic consequences of long-term unemployment. While the unemployment rate remains fairly low by historical standards, it has risen to its highest level since 2021, when the economy was still recovering from pandemic-related disruptions. The share of unemployed workers who've been searching for work for 27 weeks or longer rose this year to the highest level since early 2022, and remains near that level as of the most recent data.

Bradley said he often reminds himself that, in the big picture, he's fortunate to have the lifestyle he does.

"I still live at the top percentage of the world's population," he said. "So what do I have to be upset about?"

Going forward, Bradley said he's at peace with the possibility that his job search luck may never change — but he still plans to keep looking for work.

"I love to help companies be successful," he said. "But at the same time, if nobody wants to hire me, I shrug my shoulders and keep going."

Why do we need Market Leaders? They ought to be referred to as Recruiter Specialists. They no longer have any significant role in managing a Market. Getting rid of Ops and CA’s is not helping the bottom line.

Has anyone used the benefit Right Management for career placement after EOI yet? Some googling has me thinking it's a waste of time. I'm not looking for a new job for another 6 months or so, so IDK if I can delay starting it or not.
Anyone find a good recruiter they can recommend for engineering/operations?

Heard from a recruiter today that companies are having a hard time hiring h1b's due to the government shutdown. I guess that's at least on positive of the shutdown.

Any of y’all that got canned because of location strategy, like me, get an email from a recruiter in the Redeployment Services group? Never heard of them and have no idea what they are wanting from me. Anyone have any experience with that group? Thanks

It's crazy how many scammers are on Indeed and Linked-in.

Is there a safer way to apply for jobs? The only way I can think of is to go directly to employer websites or via word of mouth from folks in your network.

What are others finding out there in terms of using job search sites such as Indeed and Linked-In?

This is the favorite time of the year for Staples “holiday greetings” through November layoffs.

Get ready to be ready, it will be about cutting the staff, cost, manager preference, or last hard first fired.

Update your résumé, pay for it if you can NOW and circulate!

Connect with recruiters and send the hiring managers your resume directly through Linkedin or company email.

Pick out the top 10 companies (maybe 20-40), and start networking now.

I have a great track record over the last decade plus. I have gotten a raise for exceeding or meeting expectation every year . Several of those years have been exceeding, but I’m not going to wait. I have never seen it this bad.

When the layoffs happen, I noticed that my workload increases, but it doesn’t equal out to financial compensation if they were to hire a person to do it full-time! I refuse to be cheap labor for more time than I have to.

Most who leave Staples are compensated MORE and are less stressed.

Good luck, stay strong, be proactive!

How many of us nursing recruiters were let go today? This is such bullsh-t. No performance plan my entire 6 year career but I get let go out of nowhere today for under performing??? Make it make sense. And thanks for the 2 weeks severance. F this place

I’ve been grinding on the job search for months and nothing. I guess the market really is what everyone says - a black hole where resumes go to die. And what’s with all the fake postings? Why even bother? Just to je-k us around like it’s some kind of game? I’m getting desperate, slowly realizing there’s no real alternative to this horrible place, at least for now.

is there any particular company that anyone is aware of that typically hires a lot of FIS employees? Something similar to black knight for example.

Some recruiters and companies will question tenure in a company. The perception for staying too long in ONE company is playing safe. Some recruiters are against job-hoppers no longer since it is NOW the norm. Others prefer to hire people who worked for lesser known companies like Alation, Zoox, Snowflake, Earnin, Robinhood who knows what the recruiters think. Have an open mind and create a list of 20-25 target companies (closed to your home and how far willing to commute) Every week apply via their websites directly.

Is anyone else experiencing selection reps who yap on and on about their careers but don’t let you get a word in to learn about you so they can adequately represent you? I fear I’m really sc--wed, as mine just talked about himself for a solid 20 min of our 30 appt and provided very confusing feedback

I heard several HR peeps got laid off just last week.
Then I see that Jackie Richardson, HR Executive is hiring several Talent Advisors.
My question is to Jackie and/or her team please.
Are the job postings just for show, because protocol require you to post ? In other words, are these job postings reserved for the peeps who just got laid off and having to re-apply for their old jobs back as a different job title?
Is posting for these jobs a waste of everyone's time?

IBM's moving our jobs to Costa Rica (and other low cost countries)... We are also pushing bots as well to help hiring managers through self-service. If you used these bots you know that they are not good at all.

Some of talent acquisition employees located in Raleigh, NC will be kept but the rest will be let go.

This plan is nuts. The management is clueless and IBM will pay for this mistake big time.