Todays job interview experience
Thought I may share this little experience I had today whilst at a job interview...
Saw an interesting job working as a I.T tutor, got shortlisted and invited to interview. I arrived 15 minutes early, then was kept waiting and told they were running late. Forty five minutes later they inform me they have run out of time, and can't see me since they are closing and they will need to arrange another date and time !
This company work in the customer service area, and by the time I got home, it made my blood boil. Allowed myself to calm down after getting in a rage on how they wasted my time, then decided to phone the companies managing director and asked for an explanation and apology. I got the apology and a promise of an e-mail for 10pm this evening giving another interview date and time. Still heard nothing.
Conclusion: Lack of time management, arrogance, and appauling customer service. Im glad I don't work for them after that experience. Lets hope I get more luck at Fridays job interview which I have elsewhere...
Anyone else care to share their interview experiences?
Saw an interesting job working as a I.T tutor, got shortlisted and invited to interview. I arrived 15 minutes early, then was kept waiting and told they were running late. Forty five minutes later they inform me they have run out of time, and can't see me since they are closing and they will need to arrange another date and time !
This company work in the customer service area, and by the time I got home, it made my blood boil. Allowed myself to calm down after getting in a rage on how they wasted my time, then decided to phone the companies managing director and asked for an explanation and apology. I got the apology and a promise of an e-mail for 10pm this evening giving another interview date and time. Still heard nothing.
Conclusion: Lack of time management, arrogance, and appauling customer service. Im glad I don't work for them after that experience. Lets hope I get more luck at Fridays job interview which I have elsewhere...
Anyone else care to share their interview experiences?
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also you had the figure for it back then. :-P
i went for a job interview at my own place of work, they gave me a test on a computer prog, but they did it in my office, at a pc a few desks away from mine. people kept coming over saying 'you look smart today' or 'how come you are sat there'. was really off putting.
Arrive at an interview for an IT job, one guy from the panel takes a dislike to me and decides that as he has never heard of C or City and Guilds, I must be telling porkies. Throughout the interview he referred to me as "liar".
After asking him to stop calling me a liar twice, I told him that if he did it again I will take him outside and give him a good kicking, suprisingly he didn't find it funny.
Heard later that he felt intimidated by me so I didn't get the job, but to this day I think what a strange way to run an interview.
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Really, who would make up not only a qualification but also an entire examinig board and expect to get away with it? Also how could anyone work in IT and never hear of C or C & G, just strange.
I made this movie 10 years ago, back when I was at film school...
At the time I just wanted to make a silly story/film exercise, but till this day, when I go to job interviews I think about this and I want to laugh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj4AcX--Xfw
I am shocked. Phoning and asking for an apology? I would never dream of doing that (and certainly not due to waiting 30 minutes beyond my actual interview time), so no surprise if you don't get another interview, or the position, although it does sound like it's not the job for you. I would imagine tutoring would demand a certain level of patience. I suppose we are all different and respond to thing differently. I guess it's what makes us all unique :)
I've always taken the view that a job interview is both a chance for the prospective employer to see if they want you AND (more importantly to my way of thinking) a chance for me to see if I want to have anything to do with my prospective employer.
It may sound an immodest approach, but it doesn't seem to have done me any harm over the years.
I just think it's a much more symmetrical situation than employers seem to think it is. And if that means that they're shocked from time to time when I turn down offers of work, then it's a long overdue wake-up call for them in my view! ;)
Perhaps the whole experience was designed as a test of patience!!
I called the number in the advert and was asked for my name, telephone number and address. I was then asked what my views were on call centres in the modern world, and what qualities i could bring to the position. I was then told i would be notified when to attend an interview. They didn't ask anything about my work experience or qualifications. About six months later i got a letter saying i had failed the interview, by which time i had forgot about the job as i was working elsewhere.
I must admit if someone kept me waiting for ages i wouldnt then ring up the boss to complain about it. Just think 'sod it, they lost someone good' and go elsewhere and constantly slate the company who did that interview
My old boss used to go entirely on their CV and not what the person was like, i mean so many BS on their CV anyway. She hired some right idiots who totally liked on their CV, couldnt do the job and couldnt socialise much with the team and eventually left
My most unfortunate job interview was when I was about 21 I went for a job at a small telephone company as admin/IT support (which at the time I could've done, not so sure now :lol:). So I ran home from the job centre like a loon cos' my interview was at 4, and it was after 2, I needed something to eat so I ate a pasty I had, but since I was rushing I bit the side of my tongue really hard and put a big hole in it which killed. The side of my tongue swelled up, and because of it my speaking was kind of lispy. I'm spitting out mouthfull upon mouthfull of blood, and it just wasn't stopping. Time was ticking away so I put my smart shoes in my bag put my trainers on and ran to the Metty Station. Got there with about 10 minutes to spare switched shoes went in and waited. While I was waiting I thought it would be a good idea to chew some gum so my gob wasn't stinking of blood which still hadn't stopped properly. So I got my interview and it all went really well and I sat and spoke to these 2 women for ages asking them all kinds of questions about the computer systems how things work around the place everything just seemed perfect I was thinking to myself that went really well.
So I'm walking down the road from the Metty Station on the way back home and I bump into a mate of mine. He says "Haha! You're looking smart in your suit and wh....fuck me mate! What happened to your lip?". I told him about the pasty related tongue biting and I knew there and then I wasn't going to get the job.
I got home I looked in the mirror and it looked like my top lip had been burst open, there was a huge blob of dry blood on my lip I mean huge as well.
Well needless to say a few days later I got a rejection letter in the post, but I was quite pleased they actually took the time to actually send me one. Most places now you just never hear from them again.
Fastest one ever was at WHSmith, went in all suited an booted, shock the gaffers hand and he said training tomorrow morning. They basically showed me round made me do some of the work the dayshift do, and then the company secretary says to me can you start tonight? So I did. thing that annoyed me is every other new starter turned up looking like tramps. Caps scruffy tracky bottoms, almost pissed me off that I'd put some effort in when obviously any old skag can wander in and get a job there :lol:
The weekend before the interview on monday i drove there to make sure i knew where to go. Saw the car park so drove up to it, the barrier went up so i thought 'might as well drive in'. So i did and then...
...it was one of those barriers where you need a pass to get out (not to get in) so i was stuck ! Had to persuade a security guard to put his car by the entrance and reverse back so i could zoom out when the gate went up. Embarassing !
Yup, you guessed it. I wasn't asked a single one of these questions - all that hard work gone to waste :sad: I was asked what football team I supported & if I was happy working to targets, 'Eh.. yeah, no problem!'
Still, got the job so mustn't grumble :smile:
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I had something similar once; prepared all my answers, read up about the company, thought of decent questions to ask, suited and booted (office job)... and in the end two of the managers walked me over to the pub, offered me a beer (which I didn't have), spoke to me about the job for fifteen minutes, and that was it. Started there the following week. :smile:
Basicaly they had a bunch of objects on the table to pass round and when the object came to each person they had to do a little sales pithc. But you had to make up an alternative use for the item. So the example they gave was a pen and so instead of describing how the pen was a good writing implement, they described it as a walking stick for midgets!. Well at this point i realised the person who was organising the interview was just taking the piss so i stood up and told them i was no longer interested in working for them and walked out. They looked quite shocked but i take looking for a job quite seriously and id been out of work for three months i wasnt having none of it!.
Heh! I think the wisdom to be gleaned from this is always expect the unexpected & always unexpect the expected (or something..)
Yah painfully brings back memories of applying for an admin job at Sainsburys back in 2003. I was all well prepared; then, on the night prior to the interview, my housemate comes back with something off the back of a lorry. 'Look' he says, 'Vodka! 40% strength! Only ?1 a bottle to you! Have a free one on the house!'
Needless to say by 9am the next morning I was absolutely paralytic. I don't even remember how I got to the interview. l vaguely remember slurring my way through the interview with these couple of straight-heads.
Needless to say, I didn't get the job. The moral of the story is: Don't get pissed before an important job interview :roll:
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The chick that showed up with her ass hanging out of a 7" skirt and crossing uncrossing her legs while and saying things like ' I really need this job, I'm willing to do anything".
The guy that when I asked him which accomplishment he was most proud of responded..
"when I was 18yrs old I had a 40yr old"
The guy that said to me, "I used to work here and know everyone so you don't need to do this interview crap, I'll probably have your job in 6 months"..whilst waving at his 'friends' through the window
Another guy who told me he was a convicted sex offender but it wasn't as bad as it sounded as the girl was willing.
etc.
1 & 3/4 hours of soaking later, to do another 3/4 hour walk in the rain. On the way home a friend of mine got on the bus and asked what I was doing out in it, I told her and she said " look, don`t be dissapointed but the job was given to a woman last week ". I was furious that I had been through that for an insider with the organisation to get the job.
Sure enough a week later the woman was started into the job.
In my view, the fact you were willing get soaked in the rain and were willing to walk in torrential rain demonstrates you probably wanted the job more than some bimbo anyways. If I were the interviewer, I would look at that and the qualifications and experience you had which would count in your favour, but obviously most people conducting interviews these days don't understand loyalty even when it's staring them in the face unfortunately...
Mmmm any women who flaunts herself at an interview in hoping of getting a job has to be pretty stupid, although when she asked you about the job, you should of asked her if she blows as it's part of the job description. Chuckle :D
Hey! You ain't seen me all dolled up!
To be honest it happens more than people think. A friend of mine who works at HP had a similar situation with a woman 'flaunting' herself at the interview.. and hired her...6 months down the road she reported him for sexual harassment.
He managed to keep his job but lost his bonus (about 10k) and had to explain to his wife the goings on....
I've done both sorts of interviews...
1 when a friend got asked if he knew anyone, it was music computers and a bit specialist at the time, i turned up.. start next day...done
others where it was formal.. and they took the whole bloody day doing crappy tests and also "team interaction" crap etc .. sorry you can either do a job or can't...
I unknowingly dated someone who worked in HR before she had kids... just before she said it .. I said yer.. HR people.. most 2 faced snide ****s you can meet :D and in her case it was true...haha.. I also hate recruitment folk as well.
(wonder how many WOSer's work in that field :) )
fro, ya roots are showing fella..haha
I was once an intern for at this company and was working on the rollout of a new stock computer based control project. I frequently had female employees try to upstage me or take the credit for the work I'd been doing . They also tried to make me look like the keen but hopeless intern who knows nothing and therefore needs to take order from them, rather than working on his own initiative. Thankfully, my technical understanding of what had to be done and what was done and why, was far greater than theirs and I ended up getting a lot of credit, more responsibility and pay rise to boot.
Another guy who applied for a job was a convicted murderer (he didn't get the job). I left after 3 months as we were overstaffed and as i was last one in etc..
I was on the dole for over a year after that!:smile:
You never got the urge to call them and say you were an Axe wielding maniac from Aberdeen looking for a job?
EDIT: eh Guess they are 10 a penny up there though!