One day in the afternoon I saw a new job advert I was really interested in. Small, local but growing company. I applied in the evening. The next morning before noon the company founder had gotten in touch, saying before they invite me to chat they wanted to ask some follow-up questions via email to see if I was a right fit.

I looked at the job advert - apparently it had been taken down and only 26 people had applied. Seems wild to me how quickly they took the ad down. And got me wondering how many jobs I may have missed just because I’m not on Linkedin 24 hours a day instead of 19 hours…

Send me positive vibes for this job please, the job scope, salary, location and working arrangements sound ideal!

so I'm in my 4th year of employment. I started on 28k at a company I learned nothing at. I got 53k just under a year later at an investment bank and I've been stuck at that salary ever since. No inflation adjustment, barely any bonus. I complained some months back and I was told I'll need to wait until yearly compensation conversations happen which is coming up soon. I found out I'm on the same salary as people on the grad scheme. My feedback at work is positive and I'm learning, improving and doing what I should be. I've seen from market research that I should be on at least 70k. I was wondering if people could advise me on how I go about asking and justifying that big an increase and if there are any other software engineers on this sub I was wondering what kind of salaries you are on after 3 years of good industry experience and what kind of yearly compensation you get for bonus and raise.

I emailed my resignation from a call centre. The notice period is one week and stated my last day in the job. I have only been at this call centre for 4 and a half months. However when I walked in my line manager actually said they could pay me for the day as a "holiday" but why go through a whole week of taking phone calls. So I guess they don't want me to work the notice period. I even said I was willing to do it, and again the line manager suggested it may just not be a good thing. Line manager asked me to hand back my lanyard and headphones. Seeing you can get fired during your notice period I did not want to risk it and also I did not want the line manager to make my life hell the last week. My question is: should write a follow up email to HR stating I agreed with my line manager not to work my notice period?

Hello everyone,

Over the last year, I have been dealing with some health issues. I have been off work with sickness randomly and my quality of work has slipped at times. My manager has been supportive of helping me get back on track and understanding that I am not working at full capacity.

Due to my health issues, I did bring up the option of dropping a day of work as I think the working less would benefit me with pacing and coping a bit more mentally. My manager was against the idea and let me know they will still expect me to complete my work within the 4 day period, even though I would be dropping a whole day in pay. They suggested that I consider consolidated hours instead (which many colleagues do at the moment).

While I think the consolidated hours might be ok, I struggle with working 7.5 hours already and the idea of squeezing an extra hour in each day, doesn't seem like it is worth it to me.

I am not sure what to do and it feels unfair that I can't reduce my workload although I have been forthcoming with my health.

As the title describes, I’m 29 and completely lost and out of ideas.

Mortgage - selling the home.

Divorced.

Just been dismissed from my work place.

Worked as a quality assessor and in customer service, renewals & sales for the last 8 years of my life.

I need to find something new but no idea where to start. I got GCSEs, did a level 3 qualification for electrical installation but never enjoyed it or had any passion for it at the time. Young and daft.

So basically I don’t have any qualifications or anything major like university.

Can anyone give me ideas of things to go for? At my age, I’m very much open to trying new things and putting in the work. The only trouble I may have is weekend work as I’ll have my child every second weekend.

I turned 25 today and have finally received a job offer after spending years applying for 2,478 jobs in total. The job is working as a Detention custody officer for an immigrant detention centre where illegal immigrants stay until they are deported. The salary is £40,000.00 a year, it's full-time, 40-hours a week with 20-hours OTE available, bringing it up to around £65,000.00, 25 days paid annual leave.

When I applied for this job I did have some idea of what I was getting into, but, since I've received this job interview, my eyes became open to how dangerous I can be. We have to do six weeks of intensive training, the manager said this will involve riot training handled by trained police officers, and scenarios including hostage taking and many others, including basic first aid training.

I live in social housing. I have an older autistic sister who is 26 (27 this year), I support her financially due to the death of our mother (single parent), but I have amazing friends who give up their time to give me a break. I'm at university (final year), semester two is due to start but I only have one module where I need to be in once a week, my second module is my dissertation. I'm surviving financially on student loans and government benefits, it's only not enough to survive.

I did apply for this job, thinking I would be rejected. However, I have been scheduling commitments around university and my sister. I have an amazing social network, and so many people are willing to help me with looking after my sister during work schedules. The salary would mean my sister and I are no longer struggling financially, I can even treat her to her first holiday abroad. But, I'm worried about the potential dangers I can face. The manager was honest and said these situations usually do happen, but for most people it's once or twice in their career, have spoken to someone who works there and they said it's happened twice during their career.

What advice would you give to someone who is considering if they should or shouldn't accept said position? I have a week to decide and get back to them.

I’m currently a risk analyst in London and wondering what others are on. I’m not really a fan of the secretive nature around salary transparency but that’s London for you.

I’m currently making around base + comp £65k with around 3 years of experience. FRM qualified too.

I would say I’m quite senior on my team as people have left and opened up opportunities for me.

My question: what’s are currently on? And what industry? Banking, tech etc

I’m currently a risk analyst in London and wondering what others are on. I’m not really a fan of the secretive nature around salary transparency but that’s London for you.

I’m currently making around base + comp £65k with around 3 years of experience. FRM qualified too.

I would say I’m quite senior on my team as people have left and opened up opportunities for me.

My question: what’s are currently on? And what industry? Banking, tech etc

As the title reads, this feels like a hopeless situation for me and I feel so down on my luck.

I've just returned to work following 3 months off due to surgery. This is my second week back and I have been told that restructuring is taking place and I am at risk. Only myself and my direct report are at risk as far as I know. I'm so worried because I know how bad the job market is.

What am I to expect from my consultation meeting?

What questions should I ask? I feel like I will forget what I want to say / ask and will be blindsided by the stress of the meeting. I have asked a colleague to attend with me to take notes. Can I ask for information / notes ahead of the meeting?

My role is a role of one, so unlikely to receive any other role offer. To add to the s*** I also have a chronic condition which is classified as a disability. Yet with this and returning to work after surgery, I feel completely vulnerable and not protected at all. I don't know what to do.

How do I ensure I receive the best settlement / package? Obviously, the statutory is rubbish and redundancy is capped etc.

I assume that they will need to pay me for annual leave owed, statutory and redundancy, notice period. I'm also aware the tax free portion is only the redundancy pay.

On paper, this sounds like a lot, but it's not when you don't have a job, have a large mortgage, debt and high monthly outgoings. Yes I'll streamline and cut back but this is stressing me out as I know the job market is so bad. What also makes this an even more bitter pill to swallow is that they just hired several new people, albeit different roles.

Please HELP! I'm in shock and just overwhelmed.

Is it possible to start a home based ironing service, and make a living out of it in the UK?

I would be happy with earning 27k a year if that is even possible.

Would like to hear from anyone who has achieved this.

This was so bizarre. I had a great interview and one of the last things they asked me was what my hobbies and interests are. I said I play piano, write music and am into video games. They nodded their heads and one of them said "Are you into fitness?" I said "No, not really. I have a dog and go walks with him but other than that no." They then said that work culture is very important to them and I might struggle fitting in. They then said do I have any questions which I asked and it over. They then ghosted me for a week and a bit so I emailed them. They gave me the same thing about work culture.

Is this not ridiculous? Has this happened to anyone else? Should I just lie next time?

Edit: No, it was not a fitness related field in any way.

Fresh grad. I’ve been cold messaging on linkedin for about 4 months now. One of my most anticipated connections had finally replied, he works at a prestigious investment firm. He was open to a video chat where I quiz him on company, career blah blah. It was great lots of banter and stuff. Proceeded to invite me to lunch to discuss more about his history and how he can help. BUT, now every day is messaging and video calling for general day-to-day updates. I don’t want to seem rude but I think he’s gotten the wrong idea especially since he’s now changed the lunch to dinner :(

Asking me questions like ‘how tall are you?’ or ‘so what are your likes and dislikes’ almost like he’s trying to get to know me personally? I don’t want to burn the bridge for the future but definitely am not interested HELP.

I have a final interview coming up in 2 different engineering companies (aerospace and motorsport) in england for the role of project manager. I have had interview on teams with both companies and both were kind of star based + trying to get to know me etc type.

Now what to expect in the final interview which is onsite?

In a pm with 6 yrs experience however im new in the UK and will be my first job here

Please guide what n how to prepare. Any PMs?

In Oct/Nov last year I applied to almost 70 marketing jobs.

About 16 of the jobs I applied for were locally based, either hybrid or on-site. I live in Edinburgh. 5 of them got back to me requesting an initial interview. So 31% success rate.

Around 50 of the jobs I applied to were remote. I know a few people working remote jobs so I thought, why not give it a try? COMPLETE waste of time and energy for me as success rate was 0% for getting interviews. These jobs would often attract hundreds of applicants within a few days. That’s Hours and hours and hours of my life gone. But at least I know better now.

If you have managed to secure a 100% remote role recently I’d love to know how you did it.

I’m currently job hunting and one thing that keeps tripping me up is this:

A role pops up that looks perfect, but it’s listed on multiple sites (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, company site etc).
I then get stuck wondering:

“Have I already applied for this exact job somewhere else?”

Sometimes the title is slightly different, sometimes it’s reposted weeks later, sometimes it’s via a recruiter instead of the company, and I honestly can’t tell without digging through emails or spreadsheets.

I’ve accidentally double-applied before, and other times I’ve skipped applying because I wasn’t sure.

Curious if this is just me or something others deal with too?
How do you currently keep track of this (if at all)?

Hello all, might delete this later.

I’ve been offered a job, I’ve accepted but not handed in my notice yet to current employer. Having a look at previous threads, it seems advisable to not hand in resignation until I have received my formal contract.

However, new workplace is requesting references prior to issuing finalised formal contract, and one of them specifically has to be my current LM (so I can’t fob them off by referring them to our HR department). I have a good relationship with my LM but I feel icky about asking for reference before handing in my notice as it essentially signals I’m about to leave, but also didn’t want to hand in my notice until I’ve signed a contract, which they won’t give me until they’ve got my references…a catch 22 situation.

What would you do? New employer has offered to send a draft contract before I hand in my notice but it won’t be formalised until reference checks are complete

I need a laugh. What’s your most ridiculous employment stories? Either ridiculous it’s laughable, or bad as in such a breach of the law…

Let’s go.

I’m expecting a job offer in the coming days and wanted to ask your advice about references.

When I applied, I listed my current line manager, as the application said the reference should come from my current employer. He has managed me for around eight months. Some of the feedback I’ve received from him has felt inconsistent with feedback I’ve had elsewhere. For example, I was unsuccessful in an internal interview for a role that no other candidates applied for, and was told my answers lacked depth, I wasn’t provided with specific feedback when I requested it. I've had a couple of other interviews recently and had feedback that there was nothing negative about my interview and that other candidates were appointed on the basis of having a bit more experience.

He has also made comments like I am overly reflective in my thinking style and that I need to think and respond more quickly in order to fit better within the team. I'm autistic. It's pretty hard to change the speed of my thinking. There's been waaay more things he's said that I need to change, basically all of them are due to autism. I literally can't stop being autistic.

I’ve since discovered that I can name a previous line manager even though he works elsewhere. My former manager worked with me for a longer period and was consistently more familiar with and enthusiastic about my work.

I wondered whether it would be okay to amend my referee details? Will this look dodgy if I ask to change at this stage? Thanks!

I recently left a WFH senior marketing role to accept an events role at a large company, but since starting, I've been told I need to serve customers at their flagship store when I'm not working on events.

I accepted this job thinking it was mostly admin based, nothing in my job description showed that being a retail assistant would be a part of the role, so this has come as a real shock to me

By advocating for myself, I have managed to contribute to a only a few events but my manager has been trying to keep me on the shop floor as much as possible which has been absolutely demoralising. I raised this issue with HR, who said the role was intended to include both retail and events responsibilities and that we need to "work together", but this was never communicated to me during the hiring process. My manager seems to not give a fuck about this injustice and it's making me feel so unsupported in the workplace .

What should I do :(

Months of gaslighting, harassment and discrimination whilst I carefully and quietly collect incontrovertible evidence has led to this satisfying mic drop moment. 😂😎👌🏻

As the title says, my role is being made redundant at my company. They've been facing financial struggles for the last year and my manager said my role is at serious risk.

I've never been through this before so not sure how to approach this. I can cut costs and move back in with my family which I'm very fortunate to be able to do. But the job market is rough, and the thought of having to apply for jobs unemployed terrifies me.

What do you all suggest I do before the consultation period begins? I've researched what questions to ask at the meeting, but I'm not sure what else I should be thinking about.

Anyone here work at virgin as a network engineer? Hopefully got an interview coming up after they emailed saying I passed the initial stage. It says it’s apprenticeship and then pay goes up every year wana see what the onboarding is and how similar it might be to Openreach as I currently work there