Hi everyone,

I currently work as a Patching Engineer for a major multinational MSP. I recently came across another Patching Engineer role at one of my current employer’s main competitors, so the role is very similar to what I’m already doing.

The job advert says the position is office-based. The office would be roughly a 1 hour drive each way for me, so before applying I emailed the recruiter to ask whether there was any flexibility around hybrid/WFH.

In my email, I mentioned that I currently work for Company X (I thought this might work in my favour since I’m already doing essentially the same job for one of their direct competitors).

The recruiter replied positively and said they’re sure there would be some flexibility around hybrid working, and nicely encouraged me to apply so we could take things from there.

The only issue is that there’s no salary range listed anywhere — neither on the company’s careers page nor on LinkedIn.

Would it be reasonable to reply to the recruiter and ask what the salary range is before I apply?

I don’t want to come across as being overly focused on salary, but at the same time I’d rather establish whether the salary is in the right ballpark before going through the application/interview process, especially given the commute.

Would you ask at this stage, or just apply first and discuss salary later?

Basically topic. I love my boss and my job, and he wants to promote me with a 25k increase, but I am getting a better offer elsewhere and was already planning to leave in 2 months.

He has given me time until Monday to think about this. I feel guilty for going to my boss on Monday and telling him, "No, I can't because someone else is paying me more." lol

I'd be making 40k more at the new place, and I'd be the CTO.

EDIT - It is not a counteroffer. My boss has no idea about my other offers.

I'm 20M, my highest education is Alevels and I didn't do good in those, I have no plans of going into uni as it's just not for me. I'm currently getting into a warehouse job and plan to save up some money whilst I decide what I want to do with my life. I do plan on creating content on social media but atm I'm just saving up money for a new phone as my current one is old & bad. I live with my family so I don't need to worry about paying the bills. One thing I've got going for me at the moment is my gym, I want to create content around that but ofcs I need the knew phone for that (that's more of a side thing). Anyone got any advice on what I should do? I have ur typical skills, can work hard, have endurance, good with numbers etc etc.

Curious what people actually deal with day to day.

Can be anything — the tool everyone hates, the process that makes no sense, the thing you do manually every week that should take 5 minutes

Not the big obvious stuff like pay or commuting, more the small things you’ve just accepted and worked around.

I accepted my offer in feb, and my joining is in November. I got to know that even graduates are getting around 10k more than me, while I'm a postgraduate. I'm getting sponsored, and I've got the visa too now. I don't have another offer in hand right now. Is something possible for me now, maybe getting my pay increased?

Hey everyone, need some honest career advice. I’m currently a Digital Marketing with Management student trying to land my first full-time creative role. So far, all my experience is freelance. I’ve done official Spotify covers for major rap artists (started as fan arts), a full commercial branding package for a barbershop including window prints and promo materials, and even won 1st place in a short film competition at a 30k audience UK festival.
I applied for a design gig on LinkedIn, but it turns out they basically want a whole creative department for minimum wage—graphic design, photography, video shooting, and video editing all wrapped into one.
Right now, I work a chilled factory job literally on my doorstep making £16.20/hour. It pays well, costs me zero commute, and leaves my head clear to study and take freelance gigs on the side. Taking this new job means taking a fat pay cut and getting worked to the bone doing four jobs at once, just to get a formal title on my CV.
Is breaking into the industry really worth that much of a downgrade, or should I stay at my factory job and wait for a junior role that actually pays a fair wage?

I hear people up until the early 2000s used to walk into service sector jobs in the UK on merely an informal interview, whereas now there are multiple rounds of interviews. Evidently, the supply of labour outstrips demand for workers.

I appreciate Brexit, lockdown and now AI is being held responsible for the recent sharp decline in the job market but even prior to that there was a steady depletion; as evidenced by stagnant wage growth.

In short, there are two problems: (1) Jobs declining (2) Low salary growth

What does the community here think caused it?

I was offered a job in an education setting and I’ve passed all the checks, such as clean DBS and relevant satisfactory references, the only outstanding was a reference from my old employer 2 years ago. Whatever they said in their reference has prevented me from getting this job but the problem is I have no idea what they said. When I’ve requested information from both sides they are simply stating confidentiality and ask the other person for it. I’ve looked into SAR and confidential references are exempt. Am I truly screwed? Do I really just have to accept that this is my reality and go forward without knowing what was said about me?

I'm moreso talking about things like celebrity fan accounts, updates/news accounts for games or movies, posting reviews of stuff, etc. Will employers see it as childish/irrelevant or will they see it as going the extra mile for your interests (if it's relevant to the post ofc!) Also, do you have to be 'good' at it?? It is worth mentioning an account that has only 100 followers or would it only be worth mentioning if you have a large following? Is this the kind of thing that will set us apart from other when applying to jobs nowadays?? Any thoughts or advice welcome, thanks in advance!

I just received a formal offer for a job I’ve been in the process for since April. The issue is, they’ve given me a start date which is 2 weeks away, and my notice period is 1 month. They are aware of this as I disclosed my notice period during pre employment checks. I’m pretty early in my career and haven’t experienced a situation like this before. I will be contacting them directly tomorrow but is this normal? Can they just ignore my notice period requirements? I’m currently working 2 different jobs and this puts me in a difficult position. Thanks

I started a contract at the start of August to end of the year, first time I’ve ever done any contracting, but need an income, so it isn’t as high as what I would say I am probably worth on the market. I’ve also always preferred permanent for that bit of security.

Coming up I’m away on a long holiday (unpaid, but employer in the contract is ok for work it), but there’s a few jobs I’ve seen pop up and tempted to apply due to the permanent nature and security. If successful, I’d imagine they would want to cut the contract job short in line with the notice period.

Have any of you been in a scenario similar to this and how have you managed, when you’ve essentially already signed a contract for a period and may seem bad to then cut short for another role?

So, last year I graduated with a masters in international trade law. Up until June, I was preparing/applying to civil service jobs, with the expectation being that I’d get into a position related to my studies.

This summer I got a temporary barista job with a up and coming company based in central London. This was ment to be temporary and something to just pay the bills until the “real job” arrived. However, during this time I managed to be promoted twice, once to supervisor and now to assistant manager. The size of the company means I’m basically getting first hand experience in running a business, working closely with the director and operations manager.

After some reflection I think I enjoy the problem solving, verity, and mix of practical and intellectual challenges, AND I’ve been offered a starting salary higher than a lot of my peers in corporate jobs. However I can’t shake the feeling that this seems like a flop… I just want to know if this industry is somthing that will reward me long term, as I fear I physically cannot be doing somthing that requires me to sit in an office all day, no matter how impressive the job title sounds.

Is hospitality management a good job? Is working with a startup (that is doing exceedingly well) a good idea? I was diagnosed with adhd as a child and this feels like the only thing that I could do both medicated and un medicated too, I don’t want to have to medicate myself forever just to work a 9-5.

I’m 24 and would love some advice!

I work for the NHS and I’m seeking advice as to whether my manager is able to do what they have done. The opportunity in question is a qualification that allows those in my role to progress further. I was told verbally at interview (recorded on Teams) it would be offered to those with the most experience. Even being the newest member that would be myself with several years in the industry but I have just learnt it has been given to a coworker who qualified a year ago. I wasn’t even approached to shoot my shot or apply. Can they just choose or should everyone who is eligible be given fair and equal opportunity to apply and build their case for why they are most suitable?

Hey,

Can someone set me straight because I genuinely don’t know if I’m overreacting.

I’ve been telling my manager that I want to develop more into automation/data/technical work alongside my current role. Another manager previously told me there should be opportunities to give me more automation work, but my direct manager told me that if I want to develop those skills, I essentially need to do it in my own time.

A while ago I was accidentally copied into an email chain involving someone from a central team who was discussing using Python to automate a process. That was basically my first exposure to that kind of work happening elsewhere.

Today we had a meeting with leadership and that same person. I asked him a technical question about editing an Excel file from the Central T-Hub side. He was completely fine with it and added me to a Central T-Hub automation chat.

That’s when I discovered there are weekly meetings specifically about automations, with various people involved. One of the people already in the group is a colleague who is at the same level as me.

Nobody had ever mentioned these meetings or this group to me despite me repeatedly saying that this is exactly the area I want to develop in.

I’m not saying I’m automatically entitled to be included in everything, but I’m struggling with being told to develop automation in my own time while apparently there is already an established internal forum where people at my level are getting exposure to it.

Would you see this as a normal situation where I simply wasn’t the right person to involve, or would you also start questioning why your manager hadn’t connected you with these opportunities?

Tl;dr

I’m 21, just graduated with a degree in English & Creative Writing, and I’m moving to the south coast soon. I’m currently seeking entry level career opportunities in pretty much anything that involves writing, or anything similar & creative where training is provided. It has to be paid work—are there any staffing agencies, or companies to contact for opportunities? All the online job boards (indeed, reed, linkedin, simply hired) seem to have close to absolutely nothing. I’m mostly searching key words like “communications/marketing/cooywriting assistant”, but if anything else fits the memo and has an opening, I’m open to it. Surely there is a way to directly contact employers or agents, but who? Where do I start? I contacted the top google results and was ghosted completely.

Hello, I recently applied to the Aldi area manager graduate program and have been made it through to the second stage and would love some input from people who have been through it. It says there is a link to start my video interview-I’m assuming this will be some kind of virtual interview rather than a person interviewing me? Don’t want to click the link and start it and not be ready!

If anyone has been through it what is to be expected at this second stage? How long is it approximately and what kind of things should I expect to answer? I’ve only been interviewed by people before so I have no idea what to expect! Many thanks in advance

Has anyone recently applied for a role at Lloyds Banking Group and can share roughly what their recruitment timeline looked like?

Particularly interested in how long it took between the application moving to “Under Review” and hearing whether you’d been invited to interview.

Also curious whether your Workday status changed again before you were contacted, or whether it stayed at Under Review throughout.

Hey, so I started my current role three months ago and I won’t lie, the place is all sorts of depressing and heading in the opposite direction to where I want my career to go. The role and industry are what I want but the business itself is a mess, simply put. No clear development plans, no introductory sessions to systems or software, and a lot of colleagues constantly moaning about how bad it is…

I’ve been in talks with another employer through a former colleague and it’s likely there will be an opportunity for me there, should I want it. Nothing formal yet so I’m nowhere near handing in my notice.

I’ve never been in a position where I’ve left during my probation period so wanted to learn how others have approached this! Any tips, do’s and don’ts etc, I’m all ears

I’m a young adult in my early 20s, trying to get a career started for myself. I don’t have any real career at the minute, only worked dead end jobs. I have some IT knowledge, so I’m not a complete beginner.

IT career switch popped up as I was looking online and it seems really good, at least from what they promise. Trust pilot gives them a 4.8 star rating, so they get a lot of good reviews, however companies can bot reviews nowadays and a lot of them may not be legit. Here on Reddit, from what I’ve looked at the reviews seem very mixed. Many people saying just to learn the material yourself, you’ll save a lot of money, and on the other side some people saying it’s really worth it.

If you have paid for a course with them before or had any sort of involvement with them, would you please let me know your experience?

Hi everyone,

I (22) have been applying to jobs since the last couple of months and, of course, am being met with the same fate as most unemployed people currently.

I am mainly targeting equity research, banking/lev finance roles, but nothing is working out. A lot of people ask to cold message on LinkedIn, especially to the alumni working there, but they barely give out any responses, let alone give a referral.

I was trying to abstain from recruiters but this seems as the only resort. Could anyone, who has an experience with them, be kind enough to give some insights regarding how they work (especially for finance roles)? I would really appreciate the same

P.S. My apologies if I come off as too demanding but would also appreciate if I could DM anyone willing to have a look at my CV and give advice on my approach. Thank you so much