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
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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
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/careerguidance | r/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.