About r/jobs
In its own words:
/r/jobs is the number one community for advice relating to your career. Head to our discord for live support: discord.gg/4nJztvj
Community guide
r/jobs (#391, about 2.9 million) is a high-traffic career-advice community (description also links a Discord). Rules: no job posts or self-promo, specific titles required, articles OK as links, stay on-topic, follow conduct. Interviews/search/applications flairs lead (~181.4 ppd).
Advice, not job ads
Hiring posts and self-promo are banned—ask about searching, interviewing, leaving, or planning a career instead.
Specific titles
Vague titles fail; name the situation (interview stage, offer dilemma, etc.).
Practical pointers
Articles may be linked; keep posts on career topics and civil.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 5,216 subscribers (+0.18%). It sits just behind r/rickandmorty (#390) and ahead of r/StupidFood (#392) in our ranking.
What sets r/jobs apart
r/jobs is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 69% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 63.4 new posts a day per million members, more than 95% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.96% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 95% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 3.4× as many posts as the quietest (04:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/jobs went up from 2,836,123 to 2,863,234 subscribers (+27.1K, +0.96%). That is about 616 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/jobs talks about
We read the titles of 699 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “job”, “interview”, “work”, “advice” and “offer”. Other frequent themes are resume, looking, experience, career, help and months. Recurring phrases include “job offer”, “job market”, “final round” and “job interview”. By format, 69% are text posts, 23% are links and 5% are images.
Popular post flairs: Interviews (92), Job searching (75), Applications (72), Leaving a job (67), Career planning (53), Career development (39).
Activity and best time to post
r/jobs gets about 180 new posts a day. The public archive holds 969,530 posts and 6,822,409 comments in total, about 7.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (230 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (129). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/jobs
The moderators of r/jobs list 5 rules. In short:
- No Job Posts, No Self Promotion
- General conduct
- Post titles must be specific
- Articles may be posted as links
- No off-topic Posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/jobs and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/jobs have?
r/jobs has 2,863,234 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #391 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 27,111 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/jobs?
r/jobs was created on Mar 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
How active is r/jobs?
Very active: r/jobs gets about 180 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 969,530 posts and 6,822,409 comments. In a sample of 699 recent posts we counted 664 different authors.
When is r/jobs most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/jobs about?
The community describes itself as: “/r/jobs is the number one community for advice relating to your career. Head to our discord for live support: discord.gg/4nJztvj” Recent post titles often mention job, interview, work, advice and offer. Most posts are text posts (69%).
Is r/jobs safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/jobs as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/jobs?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/jobs accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No Job Posts, No Self Promotion”; “General conduct”; “Post titles must be specific”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/jobs?
Communities with similar topics include r/careerguidance (5.1M), r/antiwork (3M), r/Meditation (3.6M), r/cscareerquestions (2.4M) and r/Steam (5.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/jobs.