r/hiringcafe

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Think about it. Right now there are students submitting AI written dissertations, passing with a 58, graduating and walking straight into job interviews.

They have a degree certificate. They have a LinkedIn profile. They have a CV that looks identical to the person who actually spent three years learning to think.

The interview goes fine because ChatGPT helped them prep for that too. They get the job.

Then week three happens. The manager asks them to write a report, analyse a problem, think independently under pressure with no time to run it through an AI first.

And suddenly the certificate means nothing. Some industries will feel this more than others. Law. Finance. Consulting. Medicine. Engineering.

The ones where independent thinking under pressure is not optional.

So genuinely which industries or companies do you think are most at risk of hiring a generation of graduates who cannot actually perform without AI assistance?

And more importantly does anyone actually care enough to do something about it before it becomes a real problem?

Hi everyone,

We're working on a big migration. You might experience interruptions and weird glitches for the next few hours on HiringCafe. We're working really hard to make it successful. Thank you for your patience!

Hi as the title says I recently lost my job as a Frontend developer after 3 years at a fintech company. I’m working on my own apps and projects now to explore roles like product management and product design, but competition is so tough I haven’t been able to land a single interview even with multiple referrals and reaching out to the recruiters.

At this point I just need work. I’m working part time currently at a clinic, but need more sustainable work while I figure out how to pivot or find another role in tech. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m open to pretty much anything.

I found hiring cafe on Reddit in early 2025. I had been unemployed for about a year and wasn’t landing any interviews for jobs I applied for through other sites. I submitted a ton of applications for jobs that I found on hiringcafe and finally got an interview in April of 2025. I honestly thought it was a scam at first but the interview went well and I got the job in July 2025. I’ve been at my job for almost a year now and I absolutely love it. I know I’m one of the lucky ones but I probably wouldn’t have even seen the listing for my role as early as I did if it wasn’t for hiringcafe. So I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I tell everyone who’s looking for a job to check out hiringcafe!!

Hi All. We've noticed active slowdowns with our search and are working overtime to fix it. Stay tuned for updates

Edit: Still more slowdowns, working on it overnight

Just a quick thanks to the HC team. All the interviews and the eventual offer I got today were from listing I found on the site.

Made a career pivot from sales to accounting and I’m grateful for the change of pace.

Main thing I tell people about the site is that it pulls fresh roles from company career pages and the daily email digest helps me get my resume in early.

Great tool

QA Technician in PNW region.

Started looking around March 23rd, probably applied to 80-100 jobs, if not more. Initially some through Indeed, but then switched exclusively to HiringCafe after about 2 weeks. I received 6 interviews and two offers.

Made a Saved Search of "my city, 5miles, posted within 24 hours" and basically applied to anything remotely within my experience or interest. Looked at posts around 7am and again around 3pm every single day, and tried to apply the same day the position was posted, making a cover letter with same words used in description and modifying my resume just a little in the same way. Used AI to draft cover letters by posting job description and company website into prompt, and then heavily editing them to sound like myself and use simpler words or job description words. Once I've done a dozen or so, it became much easier to piece cover letters together from my previous ones.

Its tough out there, but not impossible, I think the biggest difference for me happened when I did not hesitate and applied right away, the sooner the better. Good luck!

My spouse doesn’t see themselves working for any other agency, not even the same company along with a different location. They are very committed and I support them ofc and want them to be happy..However.. What’s it REALLY like as a psych NP in my city? It’s discouraging to hear about pill mills and poor management with new grads. Anything helps.

Any Product Managers finding success with HC? I’ve snagged two screenings and a first interview but I’m still applying. Is the market that flooded right now?

Hello. I have been using this webapp for a couple of weeks now, and noticed that lately the filters are super slow.

The filters in questions Im using are: Country, Remote, and Last 24 hours.

But other filters seems slow as well.

Wondering if other people are facing the same issues.

Results should be blazing fast. Please confirm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiringcafe/s/HrAocQHdDw

So I was reading this posted here 4 months ago and it was listing a bunch of things why LinkedIn is ineffective and why your resume might not be seen. If a job listing on HC is also listed on LinkedIn, what would be the benefit of using Hiring Cafe in this particular instance? Is HC scraping from LinkedIn as well? Even if I apply through HC, isn't my resume still getting lost amongst the hundreds or thousands of applications submitted through LinkedIn? Isn't the odds of landing an interview just about the same whether I clicked apply through HC or LinkedIn?

Hello all. F(25) just recently laid off after 2 years. I was working as a government contractor on various CMS contracts but was laid off last Thursday due to DOGE efficiency reviews preventing me from going back to the team I was working with. I was working remotely and have moved around a few times while working remotely so I do not have much of a network. I don’t even know where to start with getting a new job. Could anybody please give me some direction or guidance on how I should pick up the pieces? I have over 10 years of legal experience (yes I started working in law firms at 15, I knew what I wanted in life) but I am feeling very disheartened by what I hear about the job market.

I’m 23 years old and I have a undergraduate degree in communications from the university of Pittsburgh and I also have my MBA with a finance focus, but I have a sales background
I have been applying a lot for medical sales job and haven’t even landed an interview. Need advice on how to get to the next step and land a interview because I’m confident once I interview I can get the job