I've had some objectively awful candidate experiences these last few months.

Share your stories and help a guy feel a bit better?

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I’ve been unemployed since Nov’23, I’m eating thanks to the food bank and I don’t know how I’m going to pay rent next months. Asked for a 25K loan to pay rent and it’s all gone.

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It’s brutal, thank you.

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Like what?

Someone reached out to ME for a role, then got ghosted while waiting to book the final interview.
Tons of ghosting.

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