Does anyone know of any active female founder Slack groups, communities, or networks worth joining?

UK-based would be great, but global recommendations welcome too.

I’ve been searching for a while and keep finding dead ends: inactive listings, application forms with no response, or paid memberships before you can tell if the community is worth it.

Would really appreciate any recommendations + how you joined.

Thank you!

Genuine question. I’m building in this space, so being transparent upfront, but I’m not here to pitch anything - genuinely trying to understand how HR/TA teams are handling this in reality, especially with the ridiculous growing volume of applicants, and reduced internal resources (thanks again, AI).

Feels like the effort (especially with tech/AI) is about optimising sourcing + applications, but the actual interview process remains somewhat inconsistent between interviewers, hiring managers, and stages etc. Things like:

• different interviewers assessing candidates completely differently
• relying heavily on memory and gut feel afterwards
• delayed, incomplete (or biased) or vague feedback from interviewers
• good candidates dropping out during the process
• interview quality varying massively manager to manager
• repeated questions over rounds/interviewers

I’d be really interested to hear:

• what’s actually working well for your team? (or seen in the past)
• where do interview processes usually break down?
• has inconsistency ever led to a bad hire or missing a strong candidate?
• how do you balance structure with keeping interviews human?

Curious to hear honest perspectives from people actually doing this day-to-day.

I’m building something in the hiring/interview space, so being transparent upfront about why I’m asking this but I’m not here to promote anything. I genuinely want to understand the real cost of getting hiring wrong:

• financially (obviously)
• hiring teams wasting time interviewing
• lost momentum
• culture damage
• good candidates dropping out
• poor interview experiences hurting employer brand
• teams hiring on instinct because nobody properly captured or structured the process
• ??

Would love to hear your stories and data (if any) - and if you're happy to connect to chat if you don't want to put it out there or chat further. Interested in the actual downstream impact on your business as a whole. Thanks!

Full disclosure: I'm collecting real candidate experiences in an anonymous survey to better understand how interviewing processes are affecting job hunters like you.

With AI, automation, and an increasingly difficult job market, many candidates are spending huge amounts of time and emotional energy applying and interviewing, only to be ghosted, ignored, or left without any communication or feedback.

I'm building a product (for companies) in this space because I genuinely believe interviewing needs to be simply better for everyone including candidates - it should be more human, respectful, and transparent.

The survey is short (1 minute!) + anonymous - I won't share it here but if you're keen to share your point of view, pls DM me and I'll share the link w/ you!

And if not - please share your thoughts below!

Thanks so much :)

Full disclosure: I'm collecting real candidate experiences in an anonymous survey to better understand how interviewing processes are affecting job hunters like you.

With AI, automation, and an increasingly difficult job market, many candidates are spending huge amounts of time and emotional energy applying and interviewing, only to be ghosted, ignored, or left without any communication or feedback.

I'm building a product (for companies) in this space because I genuinely believe interviewing needs to be simply better for everyone including candidates - it should be more human, respectful, and transparent.

The survey is short (1 minute!) + anonymous - I won't share it here but if you're keen to share your point of view, pls DM me and I'll share the link w/ you!

And if not - please share your thoughts below!

Thanks so much :)

What’s the worst interview experience you’ve had as a candidate?

Mine was getting through multiple interview rounds, having another interview booked for Monday 10am, then noticing on sunday night that the calendar invite had simply disappeared with no notification, communication or explanation. I'll let you guess what happened next: I followed up with the recruitment team twice... got crickets.

What's yours?

[WARNING - THIS POST MAY BE A MASSIVE VENTING EXERCISE] Bit of an awkward one that I've been debating with myself as to whether to post here but here I go (hoping not to regret it).

I’ve spent the past 10 yrs on LinkedIn supporting my slowly growing network (which was primarily made of people I've actually worked with across UK/AU/US) always being the one to like and show up for people. I was never one for posting anything directly, but comments and likes mainly.

Now I’m finally building my own thing, Maslow, and it’s like I’ve literally become invisible. I have 1.2k connections (which isn't much but still not nothing), but when I post about literally anything, I get bugger all. I've been trying to be more active and comment/like/connect with more people on relevant topics around interviews, hiring, and future of work, but even then - very little.

I'm sure you'll say it's because I'm not providing value (which I'm sure is arguable) but the cynic in me can't help but think this whole LinkedIn thing has gone haywire.

Worst ones - the profile lurkers who I actually know and who won't bother with their teeny tiny little thumb but I'm sure are judging all the way no matter what. I'm starting to sound like I'm ranting (too late already?).

It feels like a sea of sameness where everyone is too busy performing to actually support something real.

I’m trying to build a tool that stops humans from being replaced by robots in interviews/hiring, but I’m starting to wonder if people have just stopped caring about human connection altogether. Boy, I feel low! :(

Does anyone know of truly supportive communities (been trying to find Slack communities but no real joy so far) to genuinely engage and help one another?

My soul is dying/dead already and I can't accept that this is the game I have to play to make this work. Give me hope in the world again, Reddit!

Candidates use AI to fake the perfect profile and then we use AI to write JDs, scan applications, and even interview, trying to catch them out. We talk about hiring for DNA but then we use generic AI filters to find it, is that AI DNA basically?

Most SaaS tools in hiring are trying to remove the human from the loop and I find that pretty damn scary! AI is great for the tedious admin faff but it should not be the one making the choice, surely?

We should be using tech to help us think better, not to do the thinking for us. Critical judgement is probably more important (critical, dare I say!) now more than ever, not to just take what AI has spat out.

Am I the only one who thinks this AI-only future is a potential disaster for company culture and the general workplace? Would you (do you already) use AI interviews? How would you confidently trust the output? So many questions...

I'm genuinely worried that hiring is becoming one big simulation. We use AI to write JDs, candidates use AI to spam 400 perfect CVs, then we use AI filters to find the signal. I'm even seeing bots taking interviews for people now. It's total madness. At some point a real person actually has to work with another real person. Are we just hiring based on who has the best prompt basically? Don't know about you but that freaks me out completely especially given the speed this is all moving and the direction it's taking.