To lighten up the mood and make any workplace a little more bearable, inside jokes are bound to emerge and be shared with colleagues. And as with any other job, recruiters also have meme-worthy work-related jokes that might resonate with anyone navigating the job market.
So, to give you an insight into what is considered to be comedy gold among recruiters, we have selected the best memes from the “funnyrecruiter” Instagram account. These memes cover a spectrum, from ridiculing clients to shedding light on their work environments, and many more.
Without further ado, we invite you to delve into the humor of the recruitment industry and let us know which meme stood out the most!
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I have worked 20+ years in retail. I had, and those who also work/have worked in retail, a special retail smile
To learn more about recruitment and humor surrounding it, Bored Panda reached out to Kenny Fan, who also runs an Instagram page dedicated to recruitment memes.
First of all, Kenny briefly introduced himself: “I worked for an international firm for many years and worked in different offices in different countries. I can say recruitment problems are universal.”
Kenny has been a recruiter for “10 plus years”, therefore, there is no better candidate to tell us more about recruitment humor than him. However, we were curious what inspired Kenny to start his own meme-based Instagram account.
Kenny responded: “I’ve always been a meme guy. I’m the friend who keeps tagging people when he sees a funny meme and always tries to send memes as replies during chats. I work as a recruiter, and one day back in 2017, I randomly started a memes page about recruitment.”Kenny added: “It’s easy for me to make memes about my daily work.”
Kenny’s memes often resonate with recruiters and job seekers alike. We asked Kenny to share an instance when his content sparked unexpected engagement or a significant reaction from his audience.
Kenny responded: “When Covid happened, a lot of recruiters were out of work, so I posted a few memes about the situation. A lot of people were in the same boat and there were a lot of discussions in my comment sections. It inspired me to help share various recruiting vacancies for those who are still hiring recruiters and the engagement during that time was crazy.”
Memes are sure fun, but we were curious if beyond entertainment, humor in recruitment can have a practical impact, such as altering perceptions or influencing industry practices. Kenny shared: “Let’s be honest, recruitment is a difficult industry, and it’s easy to get depressed when deals aren’t happening. I just want to bring some humor to them when they are feeling down.”
I'm a teacher. If I EVER said what I really think, I would be out of a job the same day I started.
In the end, Kenny shared what he would like for people to take away from his memes.
“The number 1 thing is that they are not alone, a lot of people are going through the same situations at the same time.”Kenny also added: “Believe in what you do, businesses need recruiters.”
Me not on a zooom call, people=...., me on a zoom call, people=, imma vaccum now
This is an adorable picture! That little girl just can't believe he's cheating on her! That poor, little shocked face!
If you stop expecting people with 1000 years experience who'd abandon their families and work for free, we'd probably stop lying as well.
That's a golden buzzer right there for the company that offer a crappy job. that lose 8-10 employees per week.
Note: this post originally had 88 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Nothing hilarious and not "work-related memes" this is only about recruiters complaining.
This is the worst post. Recruiters lie all the time and then they won't tell you your base pay because the company is making double or more of what you are being paid.
Why is there a boredpanda.com watermark on each picture. Does BP know that compiling screenshots of tweets doesn't actually make it your content
I had one guy retire and they wouldn't repost the position. This was a rapidly growing company. As a manager, I worked my way up the chain, stepping on toes if I had to because my crew was drowning in work, and I was barely holding onto them. Finally after more than a year, and exponential company growth, I got a call from some really high up recruiter saying the position had been open to long. Since I hadn't filled the position, it was closing in a week. I responded that for more than I year I've been personally asking her recruiters to send some resumes, but I'm just hearing crickets. So she sent a few. None of them matched my requirements. The most memorable was, 1 was a very good resume from a park ranger. Another was from someone with more than 10 years of experience as an optometrist. I was managing the maintenance department! I needed people with skills in, carpentry, construction, plumbing, HVAC, security, mechanics, etc. lol.
I'm sad that there are enough people in this line of work that BP thinks there should be a listicle for it. It sounds miserable
Either suck it up and stop whinging or get another job.
People should know that recruiters don't make any decisions concerning the job description, the pay, who actually gets hired or if a job is posted or not etc. All of that is what other people decide. Recruiters only sort through the candidates based on the requirements the hiring manager gives them and put you through to the hiring manager after screening. All those haters of recruiters have no idea what recruiters actually do. Of course a few bad eggs exist. But in reality they have no power over anything during the hiring process. They're just search dogs. They get a rug to sniff and told to run and look for the scent and bring back what they find. In my last job as a trainer and quality manager I had to support HR and recruitment. I finally understood that those positions are only the executive organs, they don't get to decide what to do. That's a managers job. They're just scapegoats that the managers use to hide behind so they don't have to deal with us.
Dear recruiters, please stop using the word "engineer" for every position.
Nothing hilarious and not "work-related memes" this is only about recruiters complaining.
This is the worst post. Recruiters lie all the time and then they won't tell you your base pay because the company is making double or more of what you are being paid.
Why is there a boredpanda.com watermark on each picture. Does BP know that compiling screenshots of tweets doesn't actually make it your content
I had one guy retire and they wouldn't repost the position. This was a rapidly growing company. As a manager, I worked my way up the chain, stepping on toes if I had to because my crew was drowning in work, and I was barely holding onto them. Finally after more than a year, and exponential company growth, I got a call from some really high up recruiter saying the position had been open to long. Since I hadn't filled the position, it was closing in a week. I responded that for more than I year I've been personally asking her recruiters to send some resumes, but I'm just hearing crickets. So she sent a few. None of them matched my requirements. The most memorable was, 1 was a very good resume from a park ranger. Another was from someone with more than 10 years of experience as an optometrist. I was managing the maintenance department! I needed people with skills in, carpentry, construction, plumbing, HVAC, security, mechanics, etc. lol.
I'm sad that there are enough people in this line of work that BP thinks there should be a listicle for it. It sounds miserable
Either suck it up and stop whinging or get another job.
People should know that recruiters don't make any decisions concerning the job description, the pay, who actually gets hired or if a job is posted or not etc. All of that is what other people decide. Recruiters only sort through the candidates based on the requirements the hiring manager gives them and put you through to the hiring manager after screening. All those haters of recruiters have no idea what recruiters actually do. Of course a few bad eggs exist. But in reality they have no power over anything during the hiring process. They're just search dogs. They get a rug to sniff and told to run and look for the scent and bring back what they find. In my last job as a trainer and quality manager I had to support HR and recruitment. I finally understood that those positions are only the executive organs, they don't get to decide what to do. That's a managers job. They're just scapegoats that the managers use to hide behind so they don't have to deal with us.
Dear recruiters, please stop using the word "engineer" for every position.
