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Agreed. How desperate you are for a job can determine how much excrement you are willing to put up with during the hiring process. If you are unemployed or depserate for a new job you may do whatever some HR bimbo tells you to do, deal with their rediculous psychobabble, assigning you essays, have sociopathic interviewers rip you apart then pat themselves on the back with the delusion they are doing the company a service, volunteer salary history, take an hour long quack psychometric exam, and anwser any out-of-bounds or obnoxious questions they ask.
If you have a decent job or are highly in demand you can walk out of an interview or withdrawl you app when you encounter off-their-leash HR dimwits, hostile interviewers, out of bounds questions, or other nonsense.
Exactly, when you know in your mind there will always be another interview, there is no need to answer silly questions
They also may see you as uninterested and not hire you.
Are we assuming that the jobs at the two different companies are the same? If so how does that make you look uninterested if you're actively pursuing that role? If they want you that bad they should match or beat the other companies offer. I think they wouldn't move forward because they know they couldn't match the other companies offer.
Are we assuming that the jobs at the two different companies are the same? If so how does that make you look uninterested if you're actively pursuing that role? If they want you that bad they should match or beat the other companies offer. I think they wouldn't move forward because they know they couldn't match the other companies offer.
They want overqualified peons who will do anything to serve their specific company through paycuts and famine.
They also may see you as uninterested and not hire you.
And that is the problem with the hiring system. When hiring officials are more interested in psychoanalyzing people, stereotyping, making rediculous leaps, or other forms of poor logic and BS it is tough to offer advice because the process is too unpredictable.
If they ask I would be honest. If you really want the job you are interviewing for you could state, "until I have a job I am keeping my options open, if this job lines up I would have no problem cancelling my other interviews" or something like that.
One time a job wanted me to cancel my other interviews so they could turn my resume into the client. They wanted to make sure if I was approved, I would be available, I did.
I got hired and then all of a sudden they dropped the pay. I called them back and told them I was going to go to the other interviews due to my pay changing, and I'll let them know if I am still available. They called back 5 minutes later with my pay back to how it was originally. What a bunch of pricks. I was livid.
IME, I've had no problems (or follow-up questions) after answering "Yes, I am actively applying to and interviewing for similar positions at other firms."
I've never asked that as a HM but I know our HR folks ask so they can advise me how quickly I need to move on a candidate.
I don't have direct experience that I can recall, although I've had one or two times, like when I got out of law school, where it was obvious that I would be looking at one or more job options.
As an interviewer I don't consider it a negative that a prospect is looking at more than one employer, although I would sometimes think that finding out where else the person is applying would give me useful information about that person. (E.g. we're hiring for a lawyer to represent tenants in evictions and we find out they are also applying to another firm that represents landlords.)
If your looking for a temporary job or part time go for it if not focus on that company and that interview, if you get a new better opportunity down the go for that..
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