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r/careerguidance vs r/jobs

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Career guidance Q&A vs jobs advice room

r/careerguidance describes a place to discuss career options and ask for advice. r/jobs calls itself a community for advice relating to your career, with flairs that lean into searching, interviews and leaving a job.

In our directory, careerguidance is larger (about 5.1M, rank #176) than jobs (about 2.9M, rank #391). Activity samples are both very busy and similar (~178 vs ~181 posts/day). careerguidance’s sample is essentially all text with advice, education and resumes/CVs flairs; jobs mixes text with links and images and shows interviews, job-searching and applications flairs. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles: careerguidance requires specific questions and bans advertising, link posts, begging and sob stories; jobs bans job posts and self-promotion and requires specific titles.

  • Choose r/careerguidance for path, education and role-choice questions under its specific-question rules.
  • Choose r/jobs for search, applications, interviews and leaving-a-job threads under its no-job-posts rules.
  • Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; directory related links connect the two.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/careerguidance

Career Guidance

A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice!

Members
5.1M
7-day growth
+4.6K
Posts/day
177.6
Directory rank
#176
Created
Dec 24, 2011
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Careers

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Specific Questions Only
  • No Advertising
  • No Personal Attacks
  • No Link Posts
  • No Begging
  • No Sob Stories
  • Use Post Flair

Open r/careerguidance on SubMouse

About this community: 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.

r/jobs

Jobs

/r/jobs is the number one community for advice relating to your career. Head to our discord for live support: discord.gg/4nJztvj

Members
2.9M
7-day growth
+5.2K
Posts/day
181.4
Directory rank
#391
Created
Mar 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 69%, links 23%, images 5%

Topics: Careers

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No Job Posts, No Self Promotion
  • General conduct
  • Post titles must be specific
  • Articles may be posted as links
  • No off-topic Posts

Open r/jobs on SubMouse

About this community: 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).

Supported differences

Aspectr/careerguidancer/jobs
Public focus (from each community’s public description) A place to discuss career options, to ask questions and give advice! /r/jobs is the number one community for advice relating to your career. Head to our discord for live support: discord.gg/4nJztvj
Size
r/careerguidance is larger in our directory (about 1.8×).
 5.1M members 2.9M members
Posting activity (our sample) 177.6/day 181.4/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 69%, links 23%, images 5%
Allowed submission type (meta) Text posts Text or links
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Specific Questions Only; No Advertising; No Personal Attacks; No Link Posts; No Begging No Job Posts, No Self Promotion; General conduct; Post titles must be specific; Articles may be posted as links; No off-topic Posts

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Careers
  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

careerguidance short titles: specific questions only; no advertising; no personal attacks; no link posts; no begging; no sob stories; use post flair. Our sample flairs include advice, education & qualifications, resumes & CVs and coworkers.

jobs: no job posts, no self-promotion; general conduct; post titles must be specific; articles may be posted as links; no off-topic posts. Our sample flairs include interviews, job searching, applications, leaving a job, career planning and career development.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: