r/careerguidance rules, stats, and what to post

r/careerguidance is a place to discuss career options, ask questions, and give advice. The people posting here are working through real decisions about their working lives, like what direction to take, how to handle a situation at work, or what a role is actually like. The rules make it clear this is a question and answer community, not a place to promote things or share links. If you show up, you should be ready to either ask a genuine career question or give genuinely useful advice to someone who asked one.

Five rules decide whether a marketing adjacent post survives here. “Specific Questions Only” requires your title to be a specific career related question that ends with a question mark, so a vague or statement style title gets removed. “No Advertising” bans advertising outright and warns that repeated or egregious offenders may be banned for the offence. “No Link Posts” bans posts that contain links and requires posts to contain actual content instead. “No Begging” bans every type of begging, from references to monetary, which also rules out asking people to sign up for something. “Use Post Flair” requires you to flair your post with the type of question or with your country, state, or city before you submit.

A good post here is a specific career question in the title, ending with a question mark, flaired with your question type or your location. The body should contain real content, not a link, because links are banned. If you are a founder doing respectful marketing, the honest play is to answer other people's career questions with genuinely useful advice, with no promotion attached. If you want to start your own thread, ask something you actually want to know, like how people in a certain role made a transition or what a hiring manager looks for. Your credibility here comes from being a helpful commenter, not from anything you post about your own work.

The fastest way to get removed is posting without a specific question in the title, because “Specific Questions Only” is the first rule and the moderator one liner confirms posts lacking a specific question get removed. Advertising gets you removed, and doing it repeatedly can get you banned. Links are not allowed in posts at all, so even a helpful link kills the post. Begging in any form is banned, including asking for references or money. Sob stories are off topic, so keep personal hardship out of your post. Personal attacks get you banned, so keep every reply civil. Finally, skipping the flair gets your post removed even if everything else is right.

This is one of the strictest title rules I have seen, and I mean that as a compliment, because a question mark in the title forces you to actually ask for help instead of pitching. The link ban is the part that trips most founders up, since so much of our instinct is to drop a URL and run. My honest read of the evidence is that this room rewards people who show up with a real question and stay to answer other people's questions too.