About ACTUALLY HIRED
That's Bob. He is the mascot, he does not speak on the videos, and he would like you to know he is fine. Mostly.
Nothing to pay. Nothing to buy. Just people sharing what happened to them, and learning from the ones who got ACTUALLY HIRED. No fees, no courses, no paid listings, no ads. It costs nothing to read, log or post.
What is this?
ACTUALLY HIRED is for people who send hundreds of job applications and hear nothing back but auto-replies. The official numbers say there are millions of open jobs. Members log what they apply to and what happens next, and the site adds it all up, so anyone can compare the official story with what job hunters actually see.
When a member is ACTUALLY HIRED, they tell us how, and those stories are the only ones we learn from. Anyone can say anything they want (within the rules), but the lessons come only from people who were ACTUALLY HIRED.
Our promise about money
We take no money from anyone. Nobody is hiring us either.
- Money we take from this site: 0
- Money we make from this site: 0
- Last checked: 5 November 2026
No ads, no affiliate links, no paid listings for employers, no recruiters paying for attention. If that ever changes, this page will say so, with the date.
The official figures
Beside members' totals, the home page shows the official count of job openings for your country, from the body that publishes it, with its date. We copy each figure by hand when the source publishes.
| Country | Job openings | For | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7,523,000 | September 2026 | US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) |
"Not yet filled in" means we have not copied that figure yet; we never put in a number we did not copy from the source.
How we count
Every number on the site comes from members' records, counted the same way everywhere, so the numbers agree with each other:
- An application counts once, by its latest stage. One with no news 30 days after it was sent counts as "nothing at all".
- "A human answered" is the applications whose latest stage is a human reply, an interview, an offer or hired, out of all applications.
- "Got hired" is the number of hired stories members told.
- A new account's applications, postings and hired stories count after the account is 3 days old, and a sudden burst of new accounts about one employer waits for a person to look at it.
- An employer's counts are shown only once 5 different members have logged applications or postings there.
- What one member applied to is never shown to anyone else. Only totals are.
Right now: 0 applications from 0 members; a human answered 0 of them (0%); 0 members told a hired story.
The rules
- Facts, not accusations. Saying what happened to you is always fine ("applied March 1, auto-reply only, the ad is still up"). Accusing a named employer or ad is not; such posts are hidden, and you can repost the facts.
- Employers yes, people no: leave out anyone's private information, including the names of recruiters and interviewers.
- Nothing for sale: no courses, CV services or "I'll get you hired" offers, and no recruiters advertising roles.
- A job that asks you for a fee, a starter kit or your bank details is not allowed here. Report it.
- No sex, nothing offensive, no spam, nothing copied that is not yours to share.
- Nobody edits anyone else's words. Everyone else replies.
What we keep
To sign in you give an email address, which nobody else ever sees. Your applications are private: only you see them, and they feed the totals. Your postings, hired stories, lobby posts and replies are public, under your screen name.
To stop abuse we keep a simple log of visits: your internet address and the rough town it belongs to, the pages you open, and your account if you are signed in. Only the people who run the site can see it. We don't sell it, share it, or use it for ads, and we delete each record after 90 days.
Towns come from IP Geolocation by DB-IP. To ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted sooner, use Write to Bob.
What you add belongs to everyone
Everything members add in public is shared under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Who made this?
A job hunter with a keyboard, and Bob. You can write to us on Write to Bob.
A sister project of Penny Pinch Network.