Anyone else job hunting and feeling disheartened by slow recruitment processes?

[Questi3nn]

Ive been looking for a new role for 4/5 months.
I am seeking some solidarity.
I had hopeful conversations with a company who had reached out to me and I had many meetings with them whilst they worked through some logistics until a role came up. But Ive now been ghosted for around a month after they said they would call me with an update (4 weeks ago...)

Anyway I had slowed down my search which was silly so back at it with gusto.
Im tracking my applications and I am at 8 open/active applications. 1 of them I am awaiting feedback from 1st stage. The rest are still at application stage.

How is everyone elses journey going?

So, just had an interview and they say I should find out by end of this Friday. First interview in a long time and I spoke way too much I think. If it's a no, I'm going to be unemployed and desperately looking

Fingers crossed for you @UndoRedo

Fingers crossed @UndoRedo
I heard today the one job on my long list of applications that I was shortlisted for and first stage interviewed for I was unsuccessful but the feedback I got made me glad! The company was quite small and they said I had too much experience working in big companies... ok...
Then the recruitment agent said the company stated to him "if we dont find someone 100% perfect we may not bother filling the role..." which highlights to us all again an example of a interview process where it may all come to nothing for ALL the applicants...

@SunnySunnyDayz
Then we need to offer interviews and allow people time to appeal if they've been refused

Does this happen? It would never occur to me to appeal if I'd not got an interview.

Good luck to everyone looking. I've applied for a couple things over the past few months and am getting nowhere. It's not desperate for me at the moment and will focus on it more in September after I've completed a qualification I'm working on. Fingers crossed the jobs market gets a bit more positive by then.

The recruitment process for many firms has been awful for years, though from what I read it has got worse.

Instead of fussing about office attendance, perhaps in the public sector the government could insist on certain standards. Such as response time from the closing application date, and following interviews.

I'm hoping to be employed by September (God willing) but if not at least all the temp Christmas jobs come out then, not that it will be any easier to get one!

@HalzTangz yes - part of my role includes recruiting for my team. Recent advert for fixed term, fairly junior role brought in over 150 applications, mostly terrible - each one has to be read and scored nonetheless which is very time consuming (and soul destroying). It’s just a slow process unfortunately. A similar role in another team brought in over 500 applications - it was permanent though. There are no short cuts unfortunately 😩

Still waiting to hear anything. Losing hope 😔

Why don't you just use a different recruitment method then? Like asking people to physically send in a CV and covering letter? Wouldn't that solve the problem?

@ofcolitas no as they’d still do it.

I am waiting to hear back about two separate roles that I have completed the final stage for. One of those interviews was yesterday but the other was nine days ago! The recruiter called me up today to say sorry for the delay, the hiring manager has been off etc etc... It feels like a ridiculous length of time to make me wait! And they will be lucky if the other place doesn't beat them to it because it's a possibility!

I started my job hunt in the past month after finding out the role I took 6 months ago has drastically changed from what they hired me for and it's not what I want to do. I'm back on antidepressants which I managed to get off almost 2 years ago because it's making me so low. I genuinely wish I hadn't accepted and stayed in my old role but hindsight is a glorious thing.
I had concerns within a few weeks of starting but put it down to awaiting sign off for some stuff that I'd been hired for and that we were just trying to fill time with random bits until then. But I was told last week that the sign off isn't coming and the stuff they will now show me isn't what I accepted the role for.
The fact that the job market is so bad at the moment scares me as I'm not sure how long I can handle it but as a single parent I can't afford to leave a role without another.

I agree. However on this site posters seem to think anyone can leave jobs at the drop of a hat and get new ones immediately. Then they also in the same breath complain about the youth unemployment and blame the government.

@Questi3nn

I could have applied for voluntary redundancy (it would have been about 4 months pay) back in November last year. It wasn't enough to persuade me but i wish I had now. If I knew then what I know now about how my job has changed and how unhappy I'd be it would have been a different thing.