I’m looking for advice on jobs / career post agency recruitment as opposed to advice on my current role. I also know that the current market is dire at the moment and staying put seems like the safest option, but I’m feeling pretty miserable.
I started agency recruitment late (29) and have been at the same company for 7 years, with 6 of those years recruiting to the same market (NHS corporate services) which is fine, but not the most lucrative. The company is fine and I don’t have any real issue with them as a whole in terms of how I’m treated, though there has been talk of a management position for the last 3 years now which can only be achieved by reaching a team billing target which is pretty unreachable so I’m kind of stuck as an unpaid “team leader”.
I’m starting to feel really stuck there, with people joining the company 15 years younger than me, but because I’ve been pigeon holed into a market I don’t really feel I have much to offer elsewhere and don’t really know where to start.
I’d be happy with a job paying around £38k (or less if there’s room to move up fairly quickly) in anything that isn’t agency recruitment. I know internal recruitment would be the obvious choice, but my lack of experience would be against me there.
Has anybody got any advice or success stories where they moved into something corporate post- recruitment?
I’m female, live in London, happy with on site working, have a house and a partner that earns a decent salary. My degree is in classical music so pretty useless, and I was a teacher before recruitment which I wouldn’t go back to.
Thanks in advance!

I'm 27 F, recently joined a mid sized company(let's call is A) in gurgaon and received another offer from an MNC(let's call it B) with a location Chennai.

I am on my probation period at company A and the work culture and everything feels good but company B is like my dream company. My hometown is Mumbai so it doesn't really make a difference like that.

The highlight here is that all the other designers left like 2 months ago and currently I am the only newly hired designer here, it's been 1.5 month since I joined.

Should I tell in this company that I am leaving for a better offer or should I fake some reasons?

I'm 22, a B.Pharm grad and currently doing an apprenticeship in QC in a different city. the stipend is 16k/month, and I don't like this job. I'm literally working in a factory, no phone for the full shift, wet labs, all seniors are egoistic and arrogant old people, and it's 16k. and it's not even like tech/IT career where i will working hard or developing skills and will get better job with better pay

even my next/first job will consider me a fresher because I'm doing an apprenticeship, and internship/apprenticeship doesn't count as experience. so even my next job won't be high paying, and neither will the switch after that. it's a very slow process to increase income, and at one point you hit the ceiling (in pharma, the income ceiling is very low). even switching is not an option.

and your own body will also want to settle at one point. i talk with some experienced people in the industry, and this is what they tell me. at the beginning, we decide that we'll switch, but after 7-8 years, your physical and mental health are exhausted, you have a family and responsibilities, and you just want to settle. you don't think about salary, income goals or anything else.

even i thought of going with RA, but I feel RA is not high paying. it's high paying within the industry, but not high paying overall.

and what's really happening with me is that, in my final year, i did a lot of research and thought, okay, i'll go with RA. but then everyone started trying to get into RA. at first, it was on linkedin, so i ignored it because it's linkedin, and people who use linkedin know what kind of app that is.

but then almost all my friend circle started saying, I'll do M.Pharm in RA, I'll do this course in RA, etc. then, during my apprenticeship, even other new joiners were saying they wanted to get into RA. even my roommate, who has 4 years of experience in QA, said he wants to get into RA but it's very difficult.

for big companies, you need big credentials on paper and a strong academic background and experience. in small companies, they usually pick loyal employees who already know their systems or hire people who have experience across different areas of the pharma industry, because these are the key skills RA roles need. entry-level RA is just next to impossible because most placements happen through campus(this is what 4 years exp guy told me and it's not i am making stories)

and now, seeing all this, the work culture, salary growth and everything else, idk what to do.

i'm so invested in pharma mentally that it's become impossible to even think about going back, finding something else, working on it, and seeing if it can generate better outcomes than pharma.

so just need advice whatever you can say

I currently work as a Research Associate at a preclinical research org. I want to pursue a career in the same field, but I don’t want to be in the lab my whole life.

I originally wanted to pursue a PhD because I wanted to become a Medical Science Liaison, but I am not longer sure that’s a PhD is right for me, so now I’m trying to think of other career options in pharma. I want to keep interacting with the research and drug development from a more desk-job standpoint.

I am considering applying to get my Masters in things like Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Research, Drug Development, etc to give me a push from where I am into those kinds of positions. I’m just wondering if people think it’s worth it? Both career wise and monetarily.

My biggest concern right now is the money and if getting the MS will help me get to where I want to be and into a position where I am then actually able to pay off any student loans I acquire.

I work at a small company in a team that is gaining responsibility fast, but not growing in size. I thought I was working extra hard to be up for a promotion, since our teamlead was moving up at the end of the year.

A few months go by and quite suddenly it is announced our team will be merged with another, and a new hire will be made teamlead.

First, i’m on board, the role seems more senior than what I was aiming for and I will make a smaller step up, at least I thought. Because the ad went out and I see a lot of overlap with the work I thought I would be doing.

So then I get a bit bitter and angry, right? I worked my ass off and now my ideas and work are being handed over to someone else, and I can sit on the bench doing work I haven’t done in a year.

Some other teammates set a meeting with the CEO, because they are also uneasy with the plan. We all brief our feelings about the plan, I get a little passionate and say i’m very worried about the merge and that a part of my job will go to this new person.

A few days later the CEO schedules a meeting with me and immediately says she thought I was being accusatory, not constructive and should know better, being a medior at this company.

At first I am a bit suprised, I explain I have been taking on more and more and my fear is that my extra work will be taken for granted and used just get a senior that only ads to out workload. She continues on about how my role will be smaller and more easily manageble, and my workload will shrink because most responsibility will go to the new role.

I short: I think I already didn’t have much chance at growing, but now it’s fumbled for real. Should I go and look for something else or try to mend the situation?

[31M] I recently graduated with an associate's degree in chemistry and engineering. I've been applying to jobs at a decent rate, but only recently started getting interviews. I now have an offer for a job paying $25/hour.

The catch is the commute. The schedule would be an 8-hour day Monday-Friday, with a start time somewhere between 6–8 AM depending on the shift. It's about 35 miles each way, and the commute would take roughly an hour each way. The trip home could be considerably worse.

The company seems to treat its employees fairly well, and they've told me that in 6–12 months they'll be moving to a new facility that would bring the commute down to roughly 45 minutes each way.

The complication is that I have a pest control business on the side. It isn't full-time income yet, but it's becoming more promising. This year I've averaged around $1,000/month in profit, but September was over 3x that and I'm projecting about the same for October. So there's definitely some upward momentum, although I'm nowhere near being able to rely on it for all of my living expenses yet. I also do some other side gigs to make ends meet.

I've been out of a conventional full-time job for almost three years because I was working on my degree part-time and receiving some financial support from family.

My concern is that $25/hour may not actually be enough to justify the commute once I account for gas, maintenance, depreciation, and 70 miles of driving every workday. More importantly, I'd be giving up a significant amount of time that I could spend growing my pest control business. A 2+ hour daily commute on top of an 8-hour workday also sounds pretty exhausting, especially after being out of the traditional 9–5 routine for several years.

On the other hand, the job has some significant advantages: health insurance, a 401(k), a stable paycheck, experience at an established company, and a job title that could help me qualify for higher-paying positions down the road. It would also give me recent full-time work experience after being out of the workforce for a while.

I actually have another job offer as well, but it's part-time and seasonal. The upside is that the hours are extremely flexible and it might fit much better with my pest-control business. The downside is obviously that it's not stable, doesn't provide the same benefits, and doesn't appear to be a long-term career path. It basically involves documentation, inspection, and QA at a shipping facility.

So I'm currently considering three options:

1. Take the $25/hour full-time job. Use it as a stepping stone for 1–2 years, get the experience and benefits, and continue pest control on the side as much as I reasonably can.

2. Take the flexible seasonal job. Use the flexibility to aggressively grow pest control while continuing to look for a better full-time position.

What would you do in my situation?

Is $25/hour with a 70-mile daily commute worth taking for the experience and benefits, or would the commute and lost time make it a poor tradeoff?

For reference, my current monthly expenses are around $3k conservatively.

Had a frustrating exchange at work today.

A manager emailed me asking about the cause of a recurring issue.

I responded based on what I understood the question to mean and explained the circumstances behind it.
They replied saying that wasn’t what they were asking. Apparently, they wanted to know why certain information wasn’t being updated quickly enough and what could be done to prevent delays.

The thing is, their original question didn’t actually mention the timing of updates or expectations around them.
I don’t mind being corrected, and I’m happy to clarify things. But I find it frustrating when someone asks a broad question, expects a very specific answer, and then acts as though their intention should have been obvious.

Has anyone experienced something similar? How do you handle managers who communicate this way?

I’m genuinely curious whether I should have asked for clarification before responding or whether the original question should have been more specific.

I’m curious which sales industries offer the greatest advantage to an exceptionally attractive woman, assuming she’s also intelligent, competent, ambitious, and genuinely good at sales.
I’m not suggesting that looks can replace actual skills, but let’s be realistic—physical attractiveness can influence first impressions, trust, attention, and people’s willingness to engage.
In which industries could this translate into a significant competitive advantage and, more importantly, higher earnings?
Luxury real estate? High-end products? Medical aesthetics? B2B sales? Something else?
I’d especially love to hear from people with actual sales experience. Where do you think the combination of exceptional looks and strong sales skills would be most financially rewarding?

About 5 years ago, I joined a firm as a Growth PM. This sounded exciting as it was a new field. Till 1 year things were good, but slowly the company’s performance started deteriorating.. investors pulled out money, the company did mass lay offs and much more. During this time they made us do sales work, gave revenue targets, we did project management, delivery, creating pocs for clients, CSM, basically everything apart from actual PM work.
I feel my role has been diluted and I haven’t been able to get many interview calls and the ones I get I don’t have concrete examples to show.
I am applying to program manager roles but I haven’t heard back from any company yet.
At this stage, I can’t take a fesher job and for my position they will look for someone highly experienced.
Today, I don’t even know what I kind of roles i should apply to. I am stuck for a while and some guidance will help.

Im 33M currently working as a Senior Accountant at a midsize firm. I have been an accountant since 2020 and I absolutely hate it to the point that i have been slacking off at work and the work had been slowly piling up.I have been thinking of changing my career path completely and looking jobs that are not finance related but since I have been working as an accountant for 6 years I make a decent income, I am confused if I switch careers I will have to begin with a low paying job.
I have around $30k of savings and my wife makes a decent income too. We don’t own a house or have kids so it’s pretty much our own expenses.

Is it okay to quit my current job and look for opportunities in other fields? However I am unsure what will really make me happy and so I am really confused.

I currently hold a Masters degree in a very niche field where I have been working for the past 15 years. A license or certificate is not required to practice. The job market is declining due to AI taking over a lot of my skills. I’ve applied for positions where many of my skills are transferrable but do not require a graduate degree. I’ve submitted resumes and cover letters indicating interest in a career change or leverage of skills to move into a new field but I’m not being selected. Of course I don’t have proof but two of the positions I applied to the hiring managers explicitly commented on my level of education and experience and that the salary is non negotiable, leading me to believe that they are thinking I will want a higher salary or perhaps not stay if a better opportunity comes along. I don’t want to remove my educational achievements from my resume but I’m wondering if that is what I need to do? Any suggestions are welcome.

I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to support myself in this new AI age. I recognize what’s happening and I either will be in meetings all day discussing strategy and growth problems or need to learn how to code and execute the final strategy requirements in the system. I don’t like talking or thinking out loud and I don’t know how to code. My current role was getting final decision info from someone and documenting them and sending it to developers but with ai it can do that and the rest is merged between the two roles described above. I just don’t know what hard to pick.

I’d make it more raw and personal, so people understand how overwhelmed you feel and why you’re reaching out.
Title: I’m 22 and feel like a complete failure. How do I turn my life around?
I’m 22F, a trainee pilot, and I honestly feel like I’m ruining my own life.
Over the past year, I’ve made some really bad decisions, been careless about my career, and let my laziness and procrastination get the better of me. I’ve been terminated from two flight schools due to disciplinary issues, and now I’m struggling to get into another one. The constant changes in flight schools have also put my family under a lot of financial pressure.
I’ve lied to my parents about exams I’ve failed, disappointed them more times than I can count, and I feel terrible about everything I’ve put them through. I think I’ve reached a point where nobody really trusts me anymore, and honestly, I don’t blame them.
The worst part is that I genuinely love aviation and want to become a pilot more than anything, yet my own behaviour keeps getting in the way. My peers have finished training and are moving ahead with their lives while I’m stuck at home, struggling to clear exams and figure out my next step.
I procrastinate, barely get things done, and then spend my days feeling miserable about how badly I’m doing in life. I’ve lost almost all my confidence and self-respect. Sometimes I genuinely feel like a hopeless case, and I hate that I’ve become this person.
I know I’m responsible for my situation, and I’m not looking for excuses. I just want to know how to change when I’ve spent so long repeating the same mistakes.
Has anyone ever been at this point in their life and managed to turn things around? I could really use some honest advice, or even just hearing from someone who’s been through something similar. I really want to do better, but right now, I don’t know where to start.

I have an interview in less than 2 weeks for a statistician job. I also registered with a teaching agency in late September and they're asking me to complete registration with them. I have schizoaffective disorder which makes early mornings difficult for me. I can wake up at 8am but I think if I was teaching I would need to be awake for 6am. I think statistician job would be good for me because I'd need to get up at 8am but I have never received a statistician job offer but have received a teacher training offer in the past. I missed the teacher training offer and didn't accept on time so need to reapply this year and they will offer me a place. My savings are going to run out eventually and I don't want to put myself in a difficult situation financially. Should I aspire for a maths teaching career and register with the agency or should I keep applying to statistician jobs hoping that I'll get a job offer someday? Should I attend the statistician interview and register with the teaching agency just in case I don't get the statistician job?

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some career advice, especially from recruiters, HR professionals, or anyone who has been in a similar situation.

I'm 33 years old, an accountant with 11 years of experience, and I've spent most of my career working for multinational companies. I live in Colombia, so I'll use percentages rather than local salary figures to make the comparison easier.

My main concern is that I've had several relatively short-term jobs over the past few years.

Here's a quick overview of my recent work history:

\* \*\*2020–2023:\*\* Around 3 years at a multinational company.

\* \*\*2023:\*\* 4 months at another company.

\* \*\*2023–2024:\*\* 7 months at another company.

\* \*\*2024–2025:\*\* 1 year on a fixed-term contract.

\* \*\*2025:\*\* Just over 2 months at another multinational.

\* \*\*2026–Present:\*\* Almost 10 months at my current company.

Not all these changes were voluntary. Some were due to layoffs, restructuring, or fixed-term contracts ending.

I'm currently employed as a Senior Accountant on a permanent contract. My salary is competitive for my local market, I have a good work-life balance, and I get along well with my coworkers. My original plan was to stay for at least 1.5–2 years to build some stability on my resume.

However, another large multinational recently approached me with an opportunity. I'm already in the final stages of the hiring process, and they're offering a \*\*29% increase in base salary\*\*, along with better benefits. The position would also be permanent.

The responsibilities are quite similar to my current role, but the new company is larger and seems to offer better long-term career opportunities. I'm particularly interested in transitioning into Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) in the future.

At my current company, I don't see much room for internal growth. There have also been some recent layoffs and restructuring, which have raised concerns about job security.

On the other hand, I'm already comfortable in my current role, know the processes, and have enough free time to continue studying and developing my skills.

My biggest concern is adding yet another short-term position to my resume, especially if the new job doesn't work out and I end up leaving or getting laid off after just a few months.

\*\*So I'd really appreciate your thoughts:\*\*

1. \*\*For recruiters and HR professionals:\*\* How much of a red flag is having several short-term jobs, even when there are legitimate reasons behind those changes?

2. Would you prioritize staying longer at your current company to build a more stable work history, or take the salary increase and better benefits?

3. If I take the new job and things don't work out within the first few months, how much could another short stint hurt my future job prospects?

I don't want to turn down a good opportunity simply out of fear, but I also don't want to make a decision that could negatively impact my career in the long run.

Any advice or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone! I'm 21 and currently pursuing a BA in English. I've recently become interested in sustainability as a career, particularly roles like Sustainability Officer or Sustainability Manager in India.

I don't have a background in environmental science, so I'd love to hear from people working in this field.

Can I pursue a master's degree or postgraduate diploma in environmental studies after my BA? Is it possible to start gaining relevant experience now, even before I graduate?

I'm particularly interested in hands-on work, fieldwork, visiting sites, managing projects, and solving real-world environmental problems. I'd prefer not to spend most of my working hours sitting in front of a laptop.

I'd also love to understand the salary growth, career opportunities, and long-term financial stability this field can offer in India.

If you work in sustainability or know someone who does, I'd really appreciate your advice. What would you recommend to someone starting from scratch?