The Career Community

The Career Community is for anyone who works. Talk honestly about work and your career.

Why you should join: Candid conversations about salaries, job searching, promotions, redundancy and career changes, with no personal branding or sales pitches. Free to join.

The one-liner

A free Skool space for candid conversations about work, careers and salaries without the LinkedIn polish.

What they actually sell

The Career Community, run by Lee Harding, lives on Skool. Its public pitch: "A place to talk honestly about work and your career." It is free to join. Lee Harding pitches it against LinkedIn. Members can talk salaries, get a second opinion on a career move, rant about a boss or ask what another industry is really like, as well as job searching, promotions, redundancy and managing people. The rules are blunt: no personal-brand talk, no motivational thought leadership, no engagement farming and no coaches selling. Inside sit 9 courses and a dense module library.

Who pays and why

Working people in any industry who want honest talk about their jobs. The frustration is that public career platforms reward personal branding, not real questions about pay, bosses or redundancy. They join for candid peer conversations about salaries, promotions, career changes and difficult managers.

Where the members come from

The Skool lander and Lee Harding's own teaching appear to be the main acquisition path. Public social links are thin on the about page, so growth reads as community-led rather than a giant media brand. Exact follower counts stay off the about page.

What's holding it back

With no paid layer and no coaching allowed, the community has no obvious way to fund itself as it grows.

Steal this

Define your community by what it bans, because people tired of the usual noise will join for that alone.

Would this work in another niche?

Yes for any field where public talk is polished and private talk is honest, such as academia or medicine. Weak where people already speak freely.