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Got interview to be basically a debt collector today. On the one hand $10-15 full time with benefits, on the other, I'm a debt collector who calls you 25-30 times a day ):
Got interview to be basically a debt collector today. On the one hand $10-15 full time with benefits, on the other, I'm a debt collector who calls you 25-30 times a day ):
Do you also get a baseball bat?
Had a guy from a major entertainment corporation schedule a phone screen with me yesterday, but he didn't call. I emailed him and he apologized, so we setup another call a few hours later. He missed that too. It's incredibly unprofessional considering how well known the company is. I emailed again and asked when we could reschedule, but no word back yet.
I do have an offer from another company that I'm considering, but I'd much rather work for these guys and they're dropping the ball hard.
Got interview to be basically a debt collector today. On the one hand $10-15 full time with benefits, on the other, I'm a debt collector who calls you 25-30 times a day ):
If you don't have anything right now go ahead and take it then move to something else. A bad job is better than no job.
2 interviews tomorrow. Has to work out this time!
Been applying for job since September, got rejection and no reply.
It doesn't help that my dad is on my back and thinking that I am not applying to jobs or pretending to apply to jobs.
Just gotta wait and eventually my luck will change and someone will say yes.
Well this was a convenient thread to see today considering I work for Samsung and they laid off my entire team today at 12 pm.
That sucks. Good luck.
Sounds like the company I work for.. you aren't in Orlando, right?Had a guy from a major entertainment corporation schedule a phone screen with me yesterday, but he didn't call. I emailed him and he apologized, so we setup another call a few hours later. He missed that too. It's incredibly unprofessional considering how well known the company is. I emailed again and asked when we could reschedule, but no word back yet.
I do have an offer from another company that I'm considering, but I'd much rather work for these guys and they're dropping the ball hard.
I am so angry with myself because I thought I would do well on that interview and I could probably have, if I wasn't so nervous and the questions would have been asked more defined.
I think my CV might be a bit shit, are there any (good) companies out there that check over your CV and recommend areas of improvement?
There are (good) fellow GAFers who offer to do so.
Are there really?
Would be a massive help!
I just called the company where I had an interview 3 weeks ago. They told me that they have found someone else a couple of days ago. How nice of them to not call me.
Anyway, next interview in an hour. Maybe this time
Thanks, but it didn't went that wellGood luck!
Second round of phone interviews: "Human resources will be in touch!"
So that is what the kiss of death feels like.
It's been two years since I graduated and I've changed my CV a few times and I haven't been able to find a job yet.
It sucks really.
Lol! That happened to me once. I was pissed."all positions are filled now, but we'll contact you when we have an opening!"
job listing remains on site.
Hope that gif is SFW. (ha, pun!)
I feel ya. Having your vital organs ripped out sucks.Lol! That happened to me once. I was pissed.
Second interview went super bad. They also only asked knowledge questions but not the ones I expected (I was referred to from a previous job interview and he gave me some advice on what to prepare for).
I locked up and couldn't answer a super easy question, I have to punch myself for that :/
Other than that, I felt like all the other questions were asked poorly and not well defined. I couldn't really gather what they wanted to know exactly most of the time. Sometimes, the answers were so obvious I couldn't believe that they wanted that answer so I didn't really reply because I thought they wanted something else. Sometimes, they wanted weird details on things.
Interview only went 40-45 minutes so that wasn't good at all. Still, they asked some questions at the end that they wouldn't need if they already rejected me or at least I hope so. Maybe it was just to be nice though
I am so angry with myself because I thought I would do well on that interview and I could probably have, if I wasn't so nervous and the questions would have been asked more defined.
Back to back interviews on short notice with traveling over 500km was a bad experience
Don't beat yourself up about it too much. Sometimes a bad interview is just you not matching up well with interviewer. Remember you're also evaluating the job at the interview. If you're feeling nervous and stressed out interviewing, do you think that's going to change if you work there?
I had probably the worst interview of my life about 4 months ago, for a job I was well qualified for, and probably would have been a good fit for. I was very excited about the company, so I was pretty bummed about it, and really felt like I blew it. In hindsight, I would probably just not have worked well with the guy that interviewed me. In subsequent interviews I found I was a lot more comfortable with other people.
Recently got laid off a couple of weeks ago so I have been out there on the job market. I have interviewed with two different companies so far. One company is smaller but has an EXTREMELY intense new hire process:
2HR - Initial phone interview with HR Recruiter
2HR - Interview with manager of department
2HR - Interview with team lead
6HR- Interviews with 2-3 members from each IT department.
So hopefully I get a call back this week for one of these positions.
OH MY GOD, was texting with some friends while in gym. They asked me about the interviews and I was complaining how shitty it went when I got the call and the job offer at a big 4 company for audit. Not at the location and position I preferred but still something I am very satisfied with.
So damn happy right now, over a year of unemployment really made a dent in my life. Thought it would be easier right after graduating. Incredible that the worst interview in my opinion led to a job offer. Now it is time for apartment hunting, it won't be easy.
I hope you guys all land on your feet soon as well.
I have been to an interview with endless screening process. They basically just wait for you to fuck up somewhere.
Congrats man.
That's great news! I guess after being unemployed for that long, any position you can get is worthwhile. Hopefully you find something to like about it and maybe it'll grow into something better in a year or two.I got the call and the job offer at a big 4 company for audit. Not at the location and position I preferred but still something I am very satisfied with.
Thank you.
This thread really helped for complaining and getting advice.
Exactly what happened to me last month. Didn't get selected for an interview (took em one and a half months to decide), phoned to call why see if I had something stupid on my CL/CV. She didn't want to tell me anything, said to me that maybe it had something to do with qualifications, but she didn't know really. Now, one and a half months later, IT'S STILL OPEN. And I was by all means perfectly, perhaps even overqualified for that position, pff."all positions are filled now, but we'll contact you when we have an opening!"
job listing remains on site.
Hope that gif is SFW. (ha, pun!)
Nervous as shit for this second interview. I am not used to sleeping early so I don't think I slept all that well.
I got nothing to lose really.
Edit
Went alright. I feel the same whateverness as last time.
I think the non manager at the interview was thrown off since I found out he worked there for 2 years from his LinkedIn. Didn't realize it could be bad to look it up sometimes. The manager was really open about telling me about his time here though.
Then came the excel test...one thing I didn't know but the rest I did it.
The manager handed me a background check sheet as well...dunno if these mean anything.