Hi

I’ve had nothing official yet, I just get on with my boss so he let me know that I’d be getting an offer of promotion in the not too distant future

I’m on 48k basic + car or 6k allowance +£600-£1200 bonus(aware that’s not usually taken into account for pay rises)

I’ve not been told my responsibilities yet but they will likely be current ones, plus being the 3rd level support for the team of 5-6 I will manage. Judging by other people who do the job, a lot more meetings and decision making, but a lot more work with less time. No discussions around pay so far other than “get you some more money”.

My boss has essentially been treating as this role for about 2 weeks to see how I get on (and to convince the director, who will ultimately have the yes/no, but it was him who asked my boss who was next ready to stand up and he said me)

How much can I realistically negotiate, I know 10% max for internal pay rises are usual, but this has been asked at employee Q&A things and the answer is always no, it’s for the department to spend its own money.

With all the added responsibilities and work and less time and having to manage a team I think £52,800 is a little low and an offer (15%) £55,200 would be acceptable but I still think it’s a little low to be honest. £60k + car + bonus would be the ideal outcome.

How am I best negotiating this? Thanks

Not gonna lie, I’m feeling frustrated. I’m in a small team, and my manager is showing clear favoritism—giving my coworker way more projects and opportunities than me. I know it’s not a skill issue as I have a lot more experience than her in this field, and I get along well with the manager, but I just don’t know how to handle this. Been here 1.5 years, and it’s starting to wear me down. Worried about my career advancement... any advice?

So i’m applying for this job & I see lots of mixed reviews - overall, I just have some questions. I’m a new graduate (well, graduating next summer) and i’m pretty open to any type of job.

Basically, how is it? I’m hardworking & don’t mind long hours. I love customer service in general & find driving super fun. I can’t find much info about it. Starting wage is £28k, what is the salary as Branch Manager and then Area Manager? How much salary progression is there?

What careers could you pivot too after this, if it wasn’t right?

Is there opportunity to study an MBA later on? Any other things worth knowing?

Thanks!

I'm a foreigner working in the UK now for 2+ years in a tech company, but lately I've been seeing some weird behaviour from higher management in my company and I realized that I have no idea what the labour laws in the UK actually look like.

What should I be aware of? I'm mainly concerned about silent layoffs (people disappearing out of nowhere, no major announcements or anything), if it's possible to fire people without warning, if I should be documenting and protecting myself in any way.

I figured that since I'm under a Skilled Worker visa I should be extra concerned right now, as I definitely don't want to be in a position where I have to either find a job or move countries within 60 days.

Hey everyone! So I am in a tricky situation where I got 2 offers from 2 different countries.

For context both of them small tech startups with good traction.

First one is fully remote in UK where I get 65k base, 2k bonus every year, 30 days time off on top of bank holidays, and couple additional benefits like health insurance, gym membership. No stock options. Main office is in London, I would rather live in London if I can afford it.

Second one is in New York and remote but I need to stay in the New York City. Base is 110K, with %8 bonus each year. Unlimited paid time offs and health insurance. Decent stock options.

Only catch is I don’t need sponsorship in UK so I can switch jobs if I wanted to, but I will be going to NY with L1 visa so until I get a green card, I won’t be able to change jobs.

Edit: I have a talent visa from UK until 2030, in order to become to citizen, I need to pick one and start progressing.

Second Edit: I learned that unlimited paid time offs is I can take as much time off as I wanted to as long as the tasks are achieved. And team is okay to cover me.

Third Edit: With L1 visa you can’t change jobs in US, I need to wait for my green card.

I got my degree in 2022 & since then I’ve worked in a couple different fields, I’ve worked in admin, immigration and most recently marketing.

In January, I was working for a small business & my manager basically cut my contract to a zero hour one. (He also asked me to work for him for free). I said no, however, since then I’ve been unable to find a job. I’ve applied to over 500, had a couple of interviews, though they never offered me a job.

Essentially, I’ve been searching for a job coming up to 10 months, with absolute no luck. I’ve reached out to many recruiters, just been getting ghosted. I’m so confused and have been feeling so disheartened. As silly as it sounds, I feel like I’m never going to get a job, even though I recognise it’s just a tough market rn. But it just feels so permanent.

Any advice or recommendations on what I can do?

Applied for a WFH customer service role..

Anyone ever done their Una Assessment thing with the 8 games aimed to work out your psychology and personality.. what the jeff are thooooose 😅

Wondering when I will know if I succeed, not sure what to make of my scores/feedback haha.

Anybody who works in Sustainability on here? I am looking to transition and am looking for advise on whether the CISL sustainability certification is worth it.

I come from a background in recruiting operations, 3 years of experience. I was in B2B sales before that for a year and a half so both combined would still make me early career. I was laid off from my last job a couple months ago and am taking it as an opportunity to pivot to something I really care about.

I have no idea what path I want to take so I am looking for a foundational course to help me decide. I am also looking into volunteering projects and community projects I can get involved in.

Any advise at all will help!

I lost my job last summer. Since then I’ve been unsuccessfully looking for another one and have, to date, found nothing. I’m at the point where I’ve been applying for dead end jobs just to have some money. I struggle every month to scrape money for food and am in increasing amounts of debt to energy companies.

I feel completely worthless. The gap in my CV is now so large I don’t even get replies, and when I do get to an interview, I struggle to tell them why I’m nearly 26 and have only worked for a few months.

I don’t know what direction to go in. I have a 2:1 degree in English Literature. Does anyone have advice for me to turn this around? I feel like I’m wasting my life and I’m growing more and more depressed as time passes. I really appreciate any help.

Hi everyone, i was let go from my job in June, finding another in July. Only I'm still yet to go beyond stage 4 on my DBS and therefore cannot start.

I've escalated my case and followed all channels from chasing up all the way through to speaking to my local crime commissioner but nothing seems to be moving.

Fortunately my new employer are very understanding, but cannot offer me a start date until I am on stage 5.

In this time I've been unable to find any other form of work. Unfortunately I was living paycheck to paycheck as it is and so to have lost my job was catastrophic. I live in a rural town in Sussex and have applied to anything and everything to find some money until I can start my new job. My only income being inconsistent hours driving for Amazon flex, my income will range from £50 to 160 weekly if I'm lucky, this week was £0.

I have now fallen behind on all debts and creditors, leading to several defaults meaning a) my credit rating has plummeted and b) Bailiffs are now chasing me for money I don't have.

JCP referred me to an organisation that are supposed to help me find a job, however since I found one by myself prior to engaging with them my appointments are nothing more than tick box exercises and I have no further support.

I am on universal credit, but have been denied anything other than the basic £393 monthly and this lasts nothing more than a few hours. I receive support through my local council and have all deductions due to my situation.

Friends, family and my partner have so far just about kept me alive but I am in increasing levels of debt to them that they'll need back as they're not exactly well off themselves.

It's truly incredible how quickly my life has unravelled due to the length of time DBS service takes to process and do their jobs. This will take me at least a year to recover from financially, let alone my mental health.

I write this I guess as a rant but also to see if anyone else is in my position or one similar, and what on earth you're doing to keep afloat?

I'm genuinely beyond despair at this point.

About three weeks ago, I made a Reddit post on my situation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKJobs/comments/1g46vq3/help_what_should_i_do_please_read/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Anyway, since then, I got approached by a small company to whom I gave about three in-person interviews. I thought they went really well, but they just called and said that even though I was their top candidate, the CFO decided at the last minute to change the role's requirements and hire someone with a bit more experience.

This is genuinely a nightmare, I don't know what else I can do as I've checked about 9 recruitment platforms and given I have no experience and a graduate visa, there are barely any jobs I can apply for. I am running out of money and time.

I really don't want to give up and go back home, but nothing is going my way at the moment. If anyone can offer any real advice or help, I would wholeheartedly appreciate it.

I started my job in March of this year and my wage was MUCH lower than someone with my job title, as I had basically zero experience, and the compromise was that they were taking me on to train me up.

I am a programme manager and have been taking on more and more work since I started. I didn’t have much training, I’ve taught myself how to use all the softwares, and even have trained some of my colleagues (who were there before I even started!)

I was supposed to only have a fixed term contract but my manager told me a few weeks ago that she would 100% be making me permanent. I always get great feedback and they have said I’m an integral part of the team.

That being said, I’m very underpaid for a programme manager. Now that I’ve been there over six months, I’m confident in my skills and I know I am good at what I do (thanks to my background in admin!)

How do I negotiate getting more money? Do I wait for year end review, or when they officially renew my contract (I’ve not actually signed my permanent contract yet!) So, until I have, I will be looking out for jobs, as I can’t just take their word for it.

I posted before the budget that business hiring was “on hold” until the budget in many companies.

From within the businesses I know the response to the budget is roughly 70/20/10

70% have said they will either have to cut jobs / will not be filling vacant roles / will not be increasing pay next year (excluding those that have to due to minimum wage) or will be offering lower rates to replace staff that leave. Some are contemplating closing before April so they can pay 10% BADR before it increases.

20% have said they will just carry on and push up prices to cover the costs.

10% are happy as they work with the public sector and so are expecting to be able to increase prices given the new government spending.

Now of course of those in the 70% some are just grumbling and will pivot / adapt but I suspect that after the pre Christmas jump in hiring, things are going to get very ugly in the New Year.

Hopefully I am wrong but business sentiment at the moment is not in a good place for the majority of business owners.

Hello world!

I'd really appreciate any advice anyone has on this, thought I'd ask the great people of reddit instead of that darn Chat GPT for a change.

I've(31M) currently worked as a software/web engineer for the last 4+years, currently building API integrations between SaaS platforms, CRMs, ERPs etc, to optimise companies workflows. I am a good programmer and enjoy it, so I don't want to leave that all behind at all. But I'm not like some of colleagues who are super passionate about computers in general.

The big however is that at my current role I've started to do around 50% not engineering per se for a while, which has made me realise probably my main key skill in life, talking lol, I'd say I'm pretty good at it and this can be a little rarer in the dev community. Which translates here into communicating well with clients about highly technical things in their tongue, and translating their bussiness speak into techical solutions and communicating that to the relevant technical teams. Being something like this glue, I also try to just be an honest, kind and funny guy, which build great relationships with team members and clients. I guess this is the main feedback I've had and a role I've felt I enjoyed a lot.

So I speak to some "Solutions Architects", maybe this is the right word, or "Solutions Engineer", or "Solutions consultant". Anyway, it seems as though maybe this is a little bit of what I've been doing in my current role, by the sounds of it? I don't actually know, If anyone knows what this role sounds like please help!

It would be great if anyone has had a similar experince or knows what the career path might be for someone trying to apply for a role such as this, and anything about it, what is it typically like, pay comparisons with engineering career path, how different is it from engineering, I'm not even sure if it some part of sales... So any advice would help, thanks! :)

Hopefully this is the appropriate place to ask this question.

I am asking this on behalf of a colleague. We are in a small company, he recently started on a permanent contract and has asked to take annual leave. Our boss is telling him that he is not allowed to take any annual leave for the first three months of his contract. I've looked at his contract and this is not mentioned and from my point of view this would not matter anyway. My understanding is that if he's accrued x days of annual leave then he by law should be able to take these when he wishes even within his first three months?

Extra details:

This is in Wales

He has in his contract that he is on a probationary period for 12 months if that matters.

Also worth noting that our annual leave resets January 1st and he would lose these days if not used before then, at least that is my understanding, which if not compensated for the days would also be illegal I believe.

Our company also is no busier during this 3 month period compared to the rest of the year.

Hi there,

I’m exploring a career pivot to artificial intelligence and am open to roles in data science or as an AI designer.

Here’s a bit of my background:

• Based in the UK
• Fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish
• Hold a BSc in Neuroscience and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction
• Have 2 years’ experience working as a UX researcher
• Strong skills in advanced statistics, data visualisation, and data storytelling

I recently completed a 7-month bootcamp in data science, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, I’m struggling to secure employment in this field. A lot of people have mentioned that breaking into data science or AI can be tough without a computer science or engineering background.

If you were in my position, what would you do next?

1. Another bootcamp in software development or data engineering?
2. Apply for apprenticeships, even if they’re lower paid?
3. Continue applying for data-related roles and hope for the best?
4. Open to any other suggestions!

Thanks so much for your time and advice.

Hi, I’m a recent graduate with a 1st in business Management with Law. I was wondering if anyone has applied to one of these before and what to expect from them. I’ve just filled in my personal information and I’ve been asked to complete an assessment online I’ve also got give it take 3 years of part time work experience with some of their competitors in the retail industry . What are the chances that I will get the job and what is the process behind it? Please let me know if you’ve done any kind of graduate programmes and if they’re worth trying out. Thank you

Hi everyone!

This week I had an internal interview for a promotion, conducted by my line manager and the company director. My relationship with my line manager has its ups and downs; I often find myself seeking his approval, but he’s known to be a bit unpredictable, and some colleagues feel he’s unfair. I left the interview feeling confused and down, almost hoping I don’t get the role, but I’m looking for perspective to see if I’m overreacting.

The interview felt more like a harsh performance review than a standard interview. It overran by 30 minutes, during which they mostly focused on my past mistakes and weaknesses. I answered honestly, but my line manager brought up incidents from months ago in a way that embarrassed me in front of the director, exaggerating things like a small misunderstanding over punctuality.

Another issue he raised was my tendency to ask “why” regarding operational changes, which he sees as pushback. I explained it’s my way of fully understanding new procedures so I can support them better, but he seemed to miss that. The director did say it was valuable to know, which felt like a small win.

At one point, my manager patronizingly reminded me that this role “isn’t just a pay rise,” as if I hadn’t realized, and warned that any mistakes would “be on my head,” while pointing his finger at me. I found myself having to work hard to bring up my achievements, as the conversation kept circling back to negatives about me and the role itself.

By the end, I felt so demoralized I almost regretted interviewing at all. When asked if I had questions, I recapped our discussion and asked if my manager wanted to see more of anything in my work. He laughed, which I thought was strange, and when I asked why, his expression dropped, leaving me feeling like he might actually have been laughing at me. He then advised me to be “more proactive,” even though I already see myself as proactive.

It feels like I’m constantly up against his rigid, inaccurate view of me, and when I try to clarify, he accuses me of not handling criticism well—which isn’t fair. I value constructive feedback and am used to critique from my academic background, but here, it feels like a Catch-22.

Do you think I’m being too sensitive, or was this interview overly critical? Have others experienced similar internal interview frustrations?

I am in finance and started of in construction but only getting peanuts… after paying rent and expenses nothing left over..don’t get anything more than the salary just a the standard annual leave and that’s also in accrued basis..wondering if there are any companies offers better than this….

Beware of Hackajob’s recruitment tactics / Scam

They reached out to me, saying I was a strong fit for an interesting role and suggested setting up a call to discuss it further. After I replied with my availability, they sent a follow-up email encouraging me to create a profile on their platform instead—and then completely ghosted me.

It feels like they’re more focused on harvesting CVs and boosting their profile numbers than actually connecting people with meaningful job opportunities. Just a heads up if you’re considering engaging with them!

This was a few weeks ago now.

Applied for a sales negotiator role at a branch, got an interview and thought it went really well. After a week, the lady rang me back and said they hired someone else but she'd like to pass on my application to same company in a different branch. I said that's completely fine.

We then manage to arrange the interview at the second branch. She was very blunt, to the point, didn't ask any questions at all, just talked about her company, the direction it's going in and how amazing their sales bonuses are. I tried to add a bit about me in there and how I feel like I could add to the team and my experience but got swallowed up by her going on another tangent.

She then also dropped a 'young people just don't want to work these days' (I'm literally 22.) And in spite of the out of touch comment I just laughed and said 'yeahhh..'.

She thanked me for my time and said it was lovely chatting to me and she'd follow up by the end of the week.

A week and a half later, I had no response. So I email her directly and followed up. This was her response.

https://preview.redd.it/lm0m6l86r9yd1.png?width=1142&format=png&auto=webp&s=16ffc28f97a99a8cee323f55a847069ab8ca466a

Ok in our office building we have a free drinks machine. Coffee, hot chocolate and a few flavoured coloured liquids I affectionately call Orange and green. A lot of people complain about how bad the coffee is from it. But I didn’t mind. I was use to it as it’s the only source of liquid consumption for half a mile. Not counting the protein enriched tap water.

However after the closure of the 4th floor which had a pristine new looking vending mc left abandoned. So facilitates thought they would be extra helpful and give us the new vending mc throwing away the old one. Not realising that theirs a reason it was abandoned. The stuff it produced was complete pig swill. The hot chocolate just gave us boiled milk. Orange and green was just ever so lightly flavoured water. And the coffee never worked. No matter how many time we got the engineer In.

So now I have to go through the day with no cold liquids, no coffee. No caffeine. I basically begged and pleaded with them to get the old vending mc back. But once it’s gone. It’s gone. Heaven please save us from those that wish to do me a favour. Honestly I think this might be the breaking point to find another job. Am I overreacting? I mean if they let us have a kettle and fridge in our room. I’ll make make my own. But all my complaints fall on death ears. I might have to just start bringing in multi packs of monster. At least the day glow luminous green liquid was mostly healthy and refreshing when I needed it.

Just a bit of motivation for those still looking. This last month I had a spree of data science job interviews where the interview consisted of STAR style questions and basic technical Q&As, which bucks the trend of 'make a LeETcOdE in record time'. Finally, the market shows signs of an uptick and a drop in absurd hiring expectations.

3 offers, 1 accepted after 14 months of applications.

Good luck all and don't give up!

The company I work for is looking to review and regrade all the roles in the organisation against a new pay scale structure in the coming 12-18 months. Little information has been given beyond this.

Legally, what can they do? Are they able to 'regrade' an employee's role against a lower pay grade and decide to offer them a lower salary? In this case would they be required to offer those negatively impacted employees redundancy?

Is this 'regrading' project a euphemism for a restructure?

I left my previous job due to getting bullied and have been applying to jobs for 5 months consistently now, applied to 100s of jobs. I've been ignored multiple times and get told I'll get a response, chased up and get ignored multiple times. I've tried countless places and struggling big time. I have no money, I'm in massive debt and over £3,000 behind on rent. I'm struggling and don't know what to do. Currently on Universal Credit and get £370 a month.

This seems to be the requirement for every job, even jobs that in reality only need basic computer, maths and language skills. The spec is written in such a way, that the only acceptable candidate is someone who has already worked in that role for 3-5 years. Even if the role the specs of the role are so unusual, there would only be one person in Britain who would be a match.

I believe there is only one solution, I am going to build a time machine; that way once I have the 5 years required experience, I can go back in time and apply for the job.

If I can mass produce these time machines, I can fix the country's skill shortage problem

EDIT……..Wow I didn’t expect the overwhelming response!

YES….you saw right…3 YEARS!

It took me 3 YEARS to find a full time job in tech

You have no idea how stressful and hard it has been for me to gain employment. Literally within these last 3 years I’ve sent so much applications I’ve lost track, in that time I’ve only had like 10 interviews, I did 3 assessment centres, I got ghosted multiple times I can even count, So much recruiters have called as well promising something but they never called back, this is why I don’t trust them. I’ve had countless rejection emails! I even applied for supermarket jobs, customer service, literally anything but nothing back!

I come from a background of IT, AI and robotics. I have a bachelors in IT and a Masters in AI with robotics. So much rejections told me for entry level jobs I lacked so much experience. When I tried applying for roles I had 2 years experience in an AI role part time.

During the 3 years, I had a part time role for 10 hours a week, it hardly was anything really, a friend of my mum helped me get a part time role to at least keep experience until I found a full time however this role wasn’t even anything much really, basically I was helping plan out a wellbeing app but then they put me to help out with their TikTok so that really sucked.

I’ve spent all my time in those 3 years hoping for a role…but I never gave up…I kept being very persistent, I always kept my cv up to date, had regular reviews on my cv, always showed interest in roles, went to many recruiting fairs etc. Until last month I think it was the 3rd of October I applied for a role with a company partnered with microsoft and about a week after I got a response saying they wanted to call me and ask me some questions and they told me based on what I answered, they wanted to interview me. I interview last week Wednesday and got the job offer Friday and I start on the 11th of November!

All I want to tell you all is don’t give up….keep trying your best…I know it’s hard trying so hard and applying everywhere with no luck, the ghosting gets to you and the rejections, but there will always be someone out there who will give you the chance! It is such a relief to finally be employed after so long.

When it is your time, it will be your time. I guess all those times I applied it just wasn’t my time yet but now it is!

Millatry veteran seeking advice please Hi guys Might be a long shot but here goes I was Diagnosed with PTSD after injuries in Afghanistan and Ive Been out of work for a while and depression is kicking in again as i have alot of spare time know. I'm trying to get my head into some work (ideally working from home) is there anything I can do online to make a little bit of extra money and keep my mind active or does anyone need a hand ?

Thanks Craig

Always intrigued me, given that any pay rise may in fact be negated by RTO based directives.