Has anyone gotten a job from just a phone interview? (contract, hired)
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I know some people who received a job offer after one phone interview, some of which were for large F500s. It is pretty rare though and more often than not mostly applicable to entry level jobs rather than mid level or upper level jobs.
Mine was.
The job started with Aerotek as a temp at the F500 company which hired me perm 5 months later. Amazingly, I never left the living room for the entire hiring process until I had to go take my pre-offer drug screen.
I was told I could go to Iowa and work on swiss lathes for $18/hr. The guy said if I didn't know what I was doing he would get rid of me at the end of the week. Actually, three potential employers in three different states said the same thing. Never ended up taking them up on their offers though, wasn't bored enough with my then current job at the time.
I know a few executives personally who weren't even interviewed - They were let go and word got around, they had an offer from the company. Only one person I know ever took that without going in anyway though, incidentally he was my former CIO and the best boss I ever had.
The job started with Aerotek as a temp at the F500 company which hired me perm 5 months later. Amazingly, I never left the living room for the entire hiring process until I had to go take my pre-offer drug screen.
That is pretty rare. Most of the large corporations hire temps and never make them perm they treat them as a second class work force. I have worked for a well known food conglomerate now for 2.5 years and hate them with a passion. I've banned their products from my house.
I know of one person who got a job offer while on a phone interview. Afterwards, he quickly searched the internet for news of the company on the web. He was lucky and it turned out to be legit however I think it's still pretty risky.
That is pretty rare. Most of the large corporations hire temps and never make them perm they treat them as a second class work force. I have worked for a well known food conglomerate now for 2.5 years and hate them with a passion. I've banned their products from my house.
Yeah I've heard it was rare... I've also heard so many bad things about Aerotek that I am surprised that my experience with that temp company worked out as well as it did.
My employer is one of the top 3 Boeing suppliers and I really don't have anything bad to say about the company. Everyone starts as a temp and they are pretty good about hiring perm in a 3-6 month period.
I make aluminum and titanium parts for all the commercial jets currently in production.. the 737, 747, 767, 777 and new 787. Every time I fly I try to fly Boeing, but occasional the airline sticks me on an Airbus. Boooooo!
Not in any geographic area outside of my current one (still havent had any luck getting a call back out of any other markets I submitted my resume to).
I was practically pegged for this "job" I have now before I even talked to anyone. I was about 150% overqualified, and was the only one they wanted to talk to out of all of the applicants the agency sent over.
I had to go through an "interview" process, but I was pretty much going to be offered the job before I even started. I was the only one with remotely my background willing to work for peanuts and no benefits.
People with my skills and history rarely ever end up working "temp jobs", and I imagine I was competing against recent college grads and non-college grads.
I know of one person who got a job offer while on a phone interview. Afterwards, he quickly searched the internet for news of the company on the web. He was lucky and it turned out to be legit however I think it's still pretty risky.
With both of mine, the one in California and the one in Nevada, they actually told me to go online DURING the interview and look up their websites. Both were healthcare jobs, and they encouraged me to research their companies. Neither had anything to hide. I got a spiel about "awesome beautiful Southern California" and about the "charms of Las Vegas" with the latter I just laughed and told the woman that I was from there, no need to convince me one way or the other about Vegas! In fact I'd say only the first part of the interview in each case was like a regular interview: the rest was them telling me, since I wasn't there to see in person, what working for them was like. The hospital in Pomona told me all about Pomona, about the beach, OC, demographics, LA county, the types of patients they have, the structure of the building, the building age, the crime rate, etc. The Vegas company was a hospice and they told me all about what my route would be like, what Metro said about the crime there, how bad the traffic would be, the types of patients they took care of, what I would be expected to do, what the nurses do, etc. Of course, by the time both were explaining to me about what working for them would be like, both had already made up their minds and wanted to hire me. The next day with both companies, I was contacted by HR and sent forms via email.
If neither employer had been willing to talk to me about their companies and about the area, to me that would have been a red flag. If they were scammers (and I know the one in California was not; I worked for that company) they were pretty good scammers who'd managed to infiltrate nursing and MD boards, yelp, glassdoor, and many other places on the internet, not to mention that they each had a website!
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