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...for an interview if they already have their mind made up that I'm not the right candidate for them?
Today I had an prescreen interview on the phone for Amazon at 4:30. I had the phone near me around 4:00PM so I can hear the phone and be available quick enough to answer for them to interview me. They had me waiting about an hour and a half for them to call me back. I thought they forgot about me because by the time they called me for my interview, it was around 5:15PM...waaaaaaay after my appointment time. So she calls me and I don't remember an apology and she even said, "Well I'm sorry we had your waiting for a COUPLE OF MINUTES." Umm...no...I would say it was more than a couple of minutes. She sounded like a dingbat. I think they forgot to call me because I had to call the staffing agency for them to email the interviewer. I should have forgot about it. Just inconsiderate. smdh
So then I thought I did pretty good with the interview considering how worried and concerned I was when they didn't call me until later. I tried just remain calm and do my best answering the questions she gave me. They were really general and didn't seem very relevant to the job. So maybe less than 5 minutes after we were done, I got a email from Amazon that wasn't being considered. I was like, "Wow, THAT quick?!" It tells me that they didn't want me for the job before they even interviewed me. They were not only late, but already rejected me for the job. Oh well...I kind of had that weird feeling I wasn't going to get it anyway.
I just hope I'm not wasting my time going all the way to Columbia for some jobs.
There are no jobs - that's the real problem at the root of all this.
Most interviews exist to keep HR busy and meet legal requirements before they promote the guy who already works there or shuffle responsibilities around - in either case, nobody gets hired, which is the goal... it keeps costs down.
I've been through this... there was the joke of an engineering company that skipped out on TWO phone interviews with me and each time waited a week before they got back to me and gave me snarky attitude, as if it was somehow my fault they didn't call or return my calls or emails... Obviously, I didn't get that job. And don't even get me started on all the pointless on-site interviews where they blow smoke up my rear, tell me how great I am, show me the entire facility and product team, and then decide to hire nobody "because its cheaper" - half the time, they tell me nothing and act like the interview never happened, too!
It's a joke, but it keeps people employed and continues the lie of "there are plenty of jobs out there!"
Oh, and the only way most HR people are overworked these days is preparing layoffs packages or cranking the requirements on their posted "jobs" up high enough that nobody can meet them, IMHO.
Their goal is to screen you out, whether it's your error or theirs.
I was reading a book today about finding a job and they said HR people are "very over worked" these days.
Okay.
Most of the HR people I see are just running around organizing things for orientation. Some of them even enjoy their jobs because they don't have to do as much as the other employees.
Most interviews exist to keep HR busy and meet legal requirements before they promote the guy who already works there or shuffle responsibilities around - in either case, nobody gets hired, which is the goal... it keeps costs down.
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Exactly true, i had a agency calling me a week back and they were like wanting to meet me, being experienced in job hunting and the whole surrounding game of it i could pretty fast conclude that there were no job she had in mind
I told the woman if they she had any offer that she was considering me for, she couldn't answer and kept going on about meeting me for an interview
Being a little ignored i told here to call back if she actually had any jobs and i don't waste time being a baby-sitter for her just because she doesn't have anything to do.
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Umm...no...I would say it was more than a couple of minutes. She sounded like a dingbat. I think they forgot to call me because I had to call the staffing agency for them to email the interviewer. I should have forgot about it. Just inconsiderate. smdh 
