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Five minutes into the interview the owner of the company says"we don't really have any openings,we are screening applicants for a possible expansion,thanks for your interest"Two hours of drive time and wasted gas for nothing
Could be even worse. He may have some sort of metric to satisfy a minimum number of interviews. He intends on hiring his wife's boyfriend Harry but he still had to interview 69 other candidates.
I sent my resume in to Qualcomm in Raleigh and applied to 2 or 3 of their open positions. I get a call from a hiring manager and he asks me if I can come to his office 30 minutes away from my home for an interview for a particular job. Now. . . . . it wasn't for one of the jobs that I applied for. But, it was for something even better, but I did not originally apply to that opening because I didn't think that I met all of the qualifications. But anyway. . . of course I say Yes. I get all dressed up in my suit, drive out of my way to take my son to a drop-in daycare, and drive over to the office to meet the hiring manager. Within 5-10 minutes he says "I'm sorry but you don't qualify for this job". Hello! Did you not even read over my resume? What a waste of time and money.
I understand why that would be upsetting. Because of the economy, I really think the employers feel they have the upper hand. THEY DO!! There are so many out of work and therefore many more to pick from. Some, I think have lost touch with the fact they are playing with people's lives.
When things get better, and they will, these employers will lose workers that have not been given a decent or fair wage. This all will come full circle. The question is can most of us wait.
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I went to an interview where I knew a lot of people and later found out my 'networking' was useless. They hired an internal candidate.
What another waste of time interview, dressing up, getting nervous...
I understand why that would be upsetting. Because of the economy, I really think the employers feel they have the upper hand. THEY DO!! There are so many out of work and therefore many more to pick from. Some, I think have lost touch with the fact they are playing with people's lives.
When things get better, and they will, these employers will lose workers that have not been given a decent or fair wage. This all will come full circle. The question is can most of us wait.
It cuts both ways.
Right now it is cutting towards the employers way but it hasn't always been like that.
In 1999 the unemployment rate where I was located was 3%. You know what you got left when you got 3%? You got crap at the bottom of the barrel is what you have.
Everyone was working unless they were drunk, drugged or just to lazy to want to work.
I had two clowns working for me I wanted to fire so bad but couldn't. What made it worse is they knew I couldn't fire them.
So they stuck it to me every chance they got.
Most of my jobs were federal prevailing wage jobs and these two workman were getting in excess of $35 (1999 dollars) an hour not counting benefits like 100% company paid health insurance.
The labor market was so tight it was unbelievable and the two clowns knew they had me by the shorts.
It was a job I was behind on, they knew I couldn't find replacements and they knew I had a payment and performance bond on the project with liquidated damages at the end. They knew if they didn't finish it I would lose everything.
They had the attitude I should be grateful just that they showed up every morning.
One of the major factors in my decision to get out of my own business because these two guys were making more money than I was.
Five minutes into the interview the owner of the company says"we don't really have any openings,we are screening applicants for a possible expansion,thanks for your interest"Two hours of drive time and wasted gas for nothing
That stinks. HR management are usually incompetent blowhards.
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Originally Posted by brother227
Five minutes into the interview the owner of the company says"we don't really have any openings,we are screening applicants for a possible expansion,thanks for your interest"Two hours of drive time and wasted gas for nothing
I think it's fine for a company to interview for future openings.
I think it's not fine for them to not be upfront about the interview being for future openings.
At the last company I worked for we did a lot of future opening interviews. The majority of jobs were filled by people who had an advance interview. When a position came open if we had already interviewed someone we liked, we called them and offered the job. People who had declined a future interest interview generally never got called again, because there were usually at least a couple of people we wanted to hire from any round of future interest interviews, so there was no reason to start over.
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