r/jobs rules, stats, and what to post

r/jobs describes itself as the number one community for advice relating to your career. The people posting here are job seekers, people trying to change careers, and workers dealing with hiring, quitting, and the practical side of working life. The rules spell out the core mission clearly, which is how to get a job or how to quit a job. So this is a room full of people looking for help with resumes, interviews, offers, and leaving a job well. It is run as a professional, family friendly space, which means the tone stays civil and the moderators expect posts to stay on the topic of jobs and careers.

Three rules decide almost everything here. “No Job Posts, No Self Promotion” is the big one, because it bans job listings, recruiters, services, references, surveys, and ads of any kind, free or paid, and it even bans asking people to find a job for you. “Post titles must be specific” kills any post with a vague title like I need help. “No off-topic Posts” matters because posts about complaining about coworkers, bosses, or recruiters can be removed as low quality. “Repeated Questions” matters if you plan to ask a common question, because the sub expects you to search before posting. “Articles may be posted as links” matters if you share written content, because the title has to begin with [Article] and anything that is not an article, including videos, must be a text post. “General conduct” and “Politics” round out the picture by requiring civil, family friendly discussion with no politics.

For a founder doing respectful Reddit marketing, the honest answer is that this community is not a place to promote anything. What survives here is genuinely useful help on the topics the rules name, getting a job and quitting a job. A good post is a text post with a specific title, such as asking a fresh, well searched question about a hiring situation, or sharing a practical breakdown that helps someone land or leave a role without pointing at your own service. If you have written an article you think helps job seekers, it can go up as a link only if the title starts with [Article], and it still has to clear the no promotion rule. Bring patience and humility, answer other people's questions in comments, and let your helpfulness speak for your credibility rather than your product.

The fastest way to get removed here is anything that looks like promotion. Under “No Job Posts, No Self Promotion”, that covers job boards, job listings, recruiters, services, references, surveys, and ads, even free ones, plus asking people to find a job for you. If you want to advertise, the rules point you to buying an ad. If you want to run a survey, you have to send a mod mail to get approval first. Vague titles get posts removed under “Post titles must be specific”. Complaining about coworkers, bosses, or recruiters gets flagged as low quality under “No off-topic Posts”. Asking a question that has already been answered gets removed under “Repeated Questions”, so search before you post. Political advocacy is out under “Politics”. And if a post gets caught in the filter and you message the mods, you must include a link to the post or comment, or it will be ignored and may earn you a short ban.

This is one of the strictest promotion rules I have seen in any guide I have written, because even free mentions of services, references, or surveys get removed here. I also like that the mods spell out their core mission in plain words, how to get a job or how to quit a job, because it makes the line between on topic and off topic easy to see. If you are a founder reading this, treat the room as job seekers first and never as an audience for your tool.