Job candidates' purgatory: multiple interviews per job

[xchrom]

http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/16/11163033-job-candidates-purgatory-multiple-interviews-per-job?lite

Job seekers expect to have two or three interviews with an employer before they land a position. But 10 interviews?
Ebonee Younger’s interview odyssey began in September when she embarked on her quest to land an HR manager’s position at a rental truck company.

Ten interviews and a lot of sweat equity later, Younger, who lives in Birmingham, Ala., ended up not getting the gig.
“The whole experience cost me two new suits, a new pair of shoes, $40 in stationery and postage -- I wrote handwritten notes to almost everyone I spoke with -- two paid time-off days, and $200 plus in taxi fare,” she explained.

“I'm not so much irritated that I didn't get the job, I was just disappointed in the candidate experience,” she noted. “I really believe they could have, and should have, made a decision earlier in the process.”

[Enrique]

1. just one of the many things Ann Romney never went through n/t

[MarianJack]

2. During my recently ended 10 month nightmare of unemployment,...

...I was amazed at the open cynicism of the interviewers and the brazen age discrimination displayed.

I got a third interview for a position in January. Going in for what was described in advance as a 30 minute "chat", my wife and I were expecting that it would be a discussion of a start date and salary. It became obvious to me within 5 minutes that they were looking for reasons to NOT hire me. When I periodically called to check the status for the next month, I was always invited to withdraw from consideration. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

What amazed me is that if they didn't want to hire me, why waste my friggin time with a third interview?

Job interviewing in 2012 is such a practice in baloney that I can hardly describe it because many wouldn't find the level of crass cynicism of so many intervieweres to be believable.

PEACE!

[xchrom]

3. i've had more than 4 interviews for jobs --

an unnecessary and humiliating practice.

plus -- it costs money to through all of that

[MarianJack]

6. Yes!

Up here in Maine, commuteing is a fact of life. The intervieweres just don't give a rat's ass that gas is expensive!

PEACE!

[LeftinOH]

4. I have *never* made it through the interview gauntlet...

College graduate, normal looking and acting; I know ALL about interview techniques, but that never helped me at all. I got the job I currently have (for twelve years now) because I knew someone.

I am fairly convinced that hiring staff (or "HR specialists", as they prefer to be called), are all assholes.

[xchrom]

5. that's how i've gotten all the jobs i really liked.

because of people i knew the companies all ready knew they were going to hire me.

this gauntlet is just that -- a gauntlet -- a way of roughing you up before you even start.

[Snake Alchemist]

7. Don't be fooled. 98% of jobs are through networking. nt

[bighughdiehl]

8. I am convinced.....

they do this just to torture people, just because they can.
This is a waste of time and money for them, too, so that is
the only explanation. One more to add to the list of reasons
why I am pretty sure anyone with any real power in corporate
America is not worth their weight in dog shit when it comes to
either talent or ethics, or any measure....not worth their weight
in dogshit.

[xchrom]

9. I can't really see how this works out for the employers.

It's just not that hard to interview & hire.

[bighughdiehl]

10. No, not hard

and hanging over our head just who has the power in the situation
must be a sexual turn-in for them, I swear to God.