About r/careerguidance
In its own words:
A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice!
Community guide
r/careerguidance (#176, about 5.1 million). A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice! Rules: Specific Questions Only; No Advertising; No Personal Attacks; No Link Posts; No Begging; No Sob Stories; Use Post Flair. Sample ~177.6 ppd.
Fit
Career questions under the sub’s advice/promo limits—not a job board spam dump.
Directory neighbours
Related: FinancialCareers, Accounting, ApplyingToCollege, options, cscareerquestions. Adjacency only.
Practical pointers
Live Reddit rules are authoritative. Stats are SubMouse snapshots/samples.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Dec 24, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 4,640 subscribers (+0.09%). It sits just behind r/LivestreamFail (#175) and ahead of r/SkincareAddiction (#177) in our ranking.
What sets r/careerguidance apart
Compared with other large communities, r/careerguidance leans heavily on text posts (100% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 34%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 5.6 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. For its size it is unusually busy: about 35.2 new posts a day per million members, more than 89% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.57% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 88% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/careerguidance grew from 5,022,150 to 5,050,717 subscribers (+28.6K, +0.57%). That is about 649 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/careerguidance talks about
Looking at the titles of 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “job”, “career”, “advice”, “work” and “offer”. Other frequent themes are degree, company, jobs, leave, experience and careers. Recurring phrases include “career advice”, “career path”, “job offer” and “career change”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Advice (294), Education & Qualifications (21), Resumes & CVs (5), United States (5), Coworkers (4), Edit with your location (4).
Activity and best time to post
r/careerguidance gets about 180 new posts a day. The public archive holds 803,232 posts and 4,477,279 comments in total, about 5.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (221 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (100). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/careerguidance
The moderators of r/careerguidance list 7 rules. In short:
- Specific Questions Only
- No Advertising
- No Personal Attacks
- No Link Posts
- No Begging
- No Sob Stories
- Use Post Flair
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/careerguidance 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 subscribers does r/careerguidance have?
r/careerguidance has 5,050,717 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #176 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 28,567 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/careerguidance?
r/careerguidance was created on Dec 24, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 15, 2013.
How active is r/careerguidance?
Very active: r/careerguidance gets about 180 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 803,232 posts and 4,477,279 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 656 different authors.
When is r/careerguidance most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/careerguidance about?
The community describes itself as: “A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice!” Recent post titles often mention job, career, advice, work and offer. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/careerguidance safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/careerguidance as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/careerguidance?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/careerguidance accepts text posts only. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Specific Questions Only”; “No Advertising”; “No Personal Attacks”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/careerguidance?
Communities with similar topics include r/povertyfinance (2.9M), r/AskReddit (60M), r/MachineLearning (3.1M), r/legaladvice (3.6M) and r/sidehustle (3.3M).
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/careerguidance.