I've become a more regular user of Reddit ever since I found out that AI companies hoover up its content as training data. I want all my answers in the 'corpus' :)
One of the subs I visit is r/UKjobs. Posters and commenters aren't allowed to advertise jobs (moderators are volunteers and they'd be run off their feet whackamole-ing spam and bad-faith job postings) which is understandable.
Someone asked 'Where do people even find jobs?' and I replied with the post below, which was later deleted. Because I've had posts deleted there before (did not learn my lesson!) I've been given a 7 day ban from the sub.
I will bide my time until I'm allowed back on the sub, and I normally wouldn't write posts bleating about being banned (to be fair I've never been banned from any platform, ever, and I've been on most of them!) but I have a couple of observations.
The deletion notice said "Your post/comment has been removed breaking rule #3 - we are not a job board, CV reviews go in the megathread, we don't allow solicitation and broad interview/job search topics are also better suited to the megathread."
1. The state of the UK job market is understandably causing people a phenomenal amount of distress with people struggling even to get feedback with their rejections, let alone (not) getting jobs.
I think people need all the help they can get. I do accept that I can't post job ads (I don't think I ever have) and that the sub is not a jobs board, but I'm a bit sad that I can't signpost people to other places which are jobs boards. Possibly I shouldn't have linked to them as I can see that other comments haven't been deleted and they mention some of the same types of thing, but don't link to the website.
2. The recommendation is for the person who asked this general questio to have instead posted on the 'megathread'.
(I was drafting this bit last night, it has improved slightly since then). I had a look at the megathread and it seemed to be full of day-old posts with no answers, whereas people are pretty quick to respond to questions on the main forum. The megathread isn't that obvious (I was linked to it in the note about my post being deleted) and it's possibly not something people would go looking for, when they have a whole menu of recently added posts from people at the top of the main board.
Of the 10 posts there only 2 had any response, whereas on the main board almost every post has at least one reply. Four of the posts are from 6 or 7 days ago and no-one's said anything in response. I didn't really know about the megathread until today (I'd heard of it in passing but this is the first time I looked at it to see what people might post there). Of course, with my temp ban I'm unable to reply to any of the posts there anyway!
My next comment has nothing at all to do with Reddit.
3. I wish there was a centralised Labour Exchange kind of thing in existence.
The Job Centre Plus places will only help people if they are in receipt of benefits, which is fair enough of course. People who want a job but who aren't eligible for benefits can use the National Careers Service, great idea.
What I think would be nice is a Goverment version of recruitment agencies where someone interviews you, finds out about your working likes and dislikes and suggests roles, or sends you off to work at a particular place for a couple of weeks. I've written about this previously. I expect it's a bit unlikely though as would probably be very expensive to organise.
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EDIT: would help if I included the comment that I said I would ;)
My deleted comment Comment from mods explaining why my comment was deleted
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| The sad little note that appears if I look at any posts on r/UKjobs telling me I'm currently banned. This will lift a week later (i.e. in six days from today). |
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