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I just got hit in the face with a sledge hammer
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This was the ad:Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
Hmm, sounds like a cattle call.
Not sure why they bothered with setting up a phone interview, unless they found their candidate after setting up your interview.
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Originally Posted by edmorel
Not sure why they bothered with setting up a phone interview, unless they found their candidate after setting up your interview.
This is possible, but I think unlikely. They called me on last Wednesday, so that left Friday and Monday to interview their candidate and make him an offer. Since nobody worked on Friday, and it seems a little fast to offer a position to someone interviewed yesterday, I don't think there was another candidate. Even if they did have one, why wouldn't they just interview me too. What's the loss?
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They definitely could have found a good candidate and extended an offer between Dec 24 and today. not to mention that the fact that they called you on Dec 24 does not mean that they didn't call other candidates before that and that these guys were not further up in the HR queue.
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HR people are mostly marsupials. hope that clears things up.Originally Posted by thekunk07
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HR Is the lowest rung on the corporate evolutionary scale.
At least in the US, their entire purpose consists of documenting activities / policies sufficiently to prevent lawsuits, and to enforce governance that they themselves do not understand. 9 times out of 10, they don't understand the positions they're hiring for or what makes one qualified. Instead they can do little better than keyword matching and filtering , so that the hiring manager only has to interview a handful of people.
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They definitely could have found a good candidate and extended an offer between Dec 24 and today. not to mention that the fact that they called you on Dec 24 does not mean that they didn't call other candidates before that and that these guys were not further up in the HR queue.Originally Posted by gdl203
This might be true. It just bugs me that they called me on the 31st for an interview and now gave me a completely different reason to eliminate my candidacy.
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This might be true. It just bugs me that they called me on the 31st for an interview and now gave me a completely different reason to eliminate my candidacy.Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
Interviewing is like dating, sometimes you think things are going well and then one morning you wake up to a Dear John letter on the dresser. Market is tough but keep at it, you'll get something.
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Interviewing is like dating, sometimes you think things are going well and then one morning you wake up to a Dear John letter on the dresser. Market is tough but keep at it, you'll get something.Originally Posted by edmorel
But if they filled the position, why not just say, "We filled the position"? Anyway, good luck with your search, DNW.Originally Posted by grimslade
Thanks. I'm a little discouraged, but nothing that I can't handle. I don't waste time dwelling on things that I have no control over.
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Big +1. Big disappointment, honestly. Kept waiting for the twist at the end where the assailant walked into the room while he was on the phone and--wham!Originally Posted by grimslade
Because that is the thing about sledge hammer attacks, you never know when they are going to happen.
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HR people are mostly marsupials. hope that clears things up.Originally Posted by thekunk07
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anyone else think this thread would be about getting hit in the face with a sledgehammer?Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife
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Big firms crack me up. They're always looking to poach the juniors with experience from other firms, never willing to take someone from zero.
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