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Old 12-18-2014, 08:06 PM
 
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1. Instant rejections due to the automated resume scanners.

2. Interviews to take advantage of your knowledge with "case studies" and "assignments" only to not hire you. (I want to make a point and distinguish this from legitimate examples such as consulting firms, etc., for whom this is a standard procedure. There are unfortunately companies, oftentimes small ones and/or start-ups, who just suck knowledge for free through eternal interviewing.)
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Old 12-18-2014, 08:09 PM
 
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My nemesis is the job that is filled before it is posted to a company's web site. TWICE this week I've applied to jobs (once within 24 hours of the job hitting the company's web site, and the second within three days of the job hitting the company's web site), and both recruiters responded to tell me they had already submitted qualified candidates. Good news: the recruiters even bothered to respond. Bad news: WHY DID YOU POST THE JOB?!

P.S. I'm talking about consulting companies here (providing submittals to client companies).
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Old 12-18-2014, 09:09 PM
 
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I really, really, really hate the 30 page psychological questionnaires that are more or less, designed to weed people out. They often really have nothing to do with the job description.

Jobs that require a PHD or Masters in business, for a receptionist position that pays 10.00 an hour and is only 20 hours per week. Yes, I have actually seen this. Funny thing is, the job posting is usually there for at least a couple of months.

MUST be bilingual, for low end jobs.

The postings which require you to upload a resume, only to be asked to fill in the same information in the job app.

Missing a call from a hiring manager, returning the call a few hours later, only to get their voice mail, and then never hearing back from them again.

job boards that are littered with work from home scams, or learn to be a trucker crap.

During an interview, being shown the break area, being asked to stay and interview with the General Manager, being introduced to a supervisor...and then never hearing from them again.

ANY job posting that contain the phrase.."hey guys and gals", or "fun college gig". These are often the same ads that state that there is a ping pong table in the break room. Rough translation: Call center with such high turnover, they are going to great lengths to find ANYONE.

Tag team interviewers that seem more like an interrogation, or a court trial.

Jobs that never tell you what the salary is (usually low) until they call to offer the job.

Never being able to find a parking space, when you pull into the place you are interviewing at.

signing up for job alerts, for new openings to be emailed to you, only to discover that none of the openings match your criteria. For example, the job is located across the country from you or is for a position that you are unqualified for.

Being interviewed by people who are constantly dealing with interruptions in their office or actually text during your interview.
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Old 12-18-2014, 09:38 PM
 
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-Temp agencies. The lowball, offer no benefits, lie, burn your references, use you for leads or to meet their contact quota, most of the companies that hire through them suck to work for, this fake temp-to-hire [only 27% of these so called TTH jobs ever turn perm].

I have dealt with many temp agencies and all of this is true, I don't call those temp assignments temp-to-fire.
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Old 12-19-2014, 04:41 AM
 
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Long online apps --- C'mon people, anyone can read a PDF. Let people PDF their resumes in!

No salary listed.

Being hired for a job, then the owner or headhunter never calling back. Twice!?!?! Once was bad enough, twice Im guessing this is a trend in the new world?

All the stuff everyone before me listed
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