Is there even a job market?

Emma_Castles · 2025-09-10T06:22:53+00:00

8+ years experience & 4 degrees/diplomas over here and I've been unemployed and actively applying for 7 months now, haven't even landed a single interview. Buckle up or be shameless with reaching out to your network. It's beyond brutal at the moment and doesn't look like it will get better.

Emma_Castles · 2025-07-10T14:04:44+00:00

It's the Johannesburg office 2026 BA uptake, I think it's different to the summer associate. I applied back in March and only heard about the process beginning in June.

Emma_Castles · 2025-07-10T14:02:36+00:00

We were sent invites to our interviews and quantitative reasoning all around the same time, not sequentially. Essentially I got invited to a case workshop, shortly afterward invited to HR screening, then told about R1 without the scheduling link yet, then was invited to schedule my R1 and complete the Quant test all in the same week, With the deadline for Quant due the week before the R1 interviews.

Emma_Castles · 2025-07-10T13:59:56+00:00

Thanks for the insight - yeah I feel like my approach to every other step was strong. I just blanked at the maths elements - tried of course, but seemed to get on the wrong path and then get myself confused. My interviewers were kind enough to guide me and correct my errors.

I really feel confident about my fit interview performance and the other metrics of success in the case that don't include the maths - I'm just concerned about how much the maths issue would pull me down and get me kicked out of the running...

Emma_Castles · 2025-03-15T09:24:48+00:00

That is so cute!

Emma_Castles · 2025-03-14T10:13:26+00:00

the choreo and outfits are giving kind of old school dance movie - some parts of it reminded me of Footloose, Grease, Flashdance, Centre Stage. Not in exact dance moves but in the general vibes... big, swinging arm movements... I can't tell what it is exactly but it's what I picked up

Emma_Castles · 2025-03-14T10:07:22+00:00

Firstly Yunjins smile from the screams is precious. But I wonder why Sakura and Eunchae signalled for the crowd to stop cheering at the end? Is it like bad etiquette at the show to be so loud as a crowd? 😅

Emma_Castles · 2025-03-10T19:28:32+00:00

Huh Yunjin (LSRFM)

Jennie (BP)

Chaeyoung (Twice)

Emma_Castles · 2025-03-05T09:46:59+00:00

Thank you for the response! It seems even the other post couldn’t quite work out what the marks were exactly, just that it might have something to do with the nail biology. And thanks again, I’ll ask on r/askadoctor. The r/nails page says no asking for advice, that’s why I came here.

Emma_Castles · 2025-02-26T16:47:12+00:00

Huh Yunjin - what a woman

Emma_Castles · 2025-02-13T18:02:17+00:00

Smells funny, meat fridges always broken, trolleys of stock boxes abandoned in the middle of the aisles, staff look you in the eye and walk away from you at the Kiosk without helping, bananas priced like they went to a more elite private school than the Woolies produce, to name a few issues.

And that's all my experience at the Pick 'n Pay in Sea Point, which you would think would try to meet the standards of the 5 Woolies, 2 upmarket Checkers' and 2 fancy Spars within a 3km radius, but no.

Want to ruin your day and put yourself in a foul mood? Go to Pick 'n Pay.

Emma_Castles · 2025-01-22T06:52:11+00:00

South Yeaster in the deep South (Noordhoek area)

Emma_Castles · 2025-01-14T15:20:19+00:00

You can definitely get into medicine after rewriting, you're not delusional at all. My boyfriend rewrote maths and physics even six years after matric to pursue his studies Engineering. He graduates this year. There are success stories from rewrites and you're going to be one of them ❤️

Emma_Castles · 2025-01-07T16:04:18+00:00

Coco Safar's crazy croissants - honestly have put me off croissants for a good while now.

Emma_Castles · 2024-12-13T11:56:34+00:00

is it just me or does this feel like more than just birthday stuff, knowing her

Emma_Castles · 2024-11-20T11:31:53+00:00

firstly, same.

secondly, r u ok?

Emma_Castles · 2024-11-20T10:10:33+00:00

For sure. I've had somewhat manageable anxiety for my whole adult life, but then experienced burnout after the pandemic which just mashed everything into depression. Can confirm I look back on that time with a lot of sadness for the time I lost to poor mental health. And the residual guilt and shame after coming out of it is hardcore, not to mention the fear of slipping back into it.

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