Comments on: Horror job search stories, Part IV

By: Gayle Howard

Gayle Howard — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:01:03 +0000

I had a client once who was beside himself on how to recover from a terrible interview. He was walking through the plant of a large production facility and remarked “You have an excellent setup here” to the manager who was taking him on the tour mid interview. Suddenly enraged, the manager turned on him, red in the face and bellowed two inches from my client’s nose, “If I wanted your opinion I would have asked for it!” My client was mortified and had no idea what to do. He mumbled an apology and followed the manager around the rest of the facility saying nothing. Upon return to the office, he was placed in a tiny room, no window, simply a desk and a chair, pen and paper and demanded to create his strategy for the production facility for the next 12 months based on what he had seen! He was given one hour. (He remarked that the paper was slapped down on the table like one of police shows on TV where they ask the person to write a confession!). He was so upset from being screamed at, that he was wracking his brains trying to come up with some sort of strategy but the more stressed he got, the hotter he got in this small room, and by the end of the hour, he was hot, sweating and miserable. He called me asking how he could turn this terrible situation around! I couldn’t conceive why anyone would even want to rescue such a situation where a complete stranger would think it is okay to yell and belittle an applicant! Who would want to work for such people? Whether this was deliberately a stress interview we’ll never know, but if it was, then they took it too far.

By: guestblogger99

guestblogger99 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:36:43 +0000

I went to an 8 hour once for a no name company. You can read about my experience –

When you see the headline Ã¢â‚¬Å“Job Interview Tip: Google your Potential BossÃ¢â‚¬Â, you must be wondering what eBossWatch is referring to? Well, let me tell you about a personal experience from last year.

Given the current economic condition, we are in what is referred to as an employerÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s market. I was invited into an interview in a major city and I when I saw the agenda, I could not believe the schedule. It was an all-day interview, which lead me to believe they were just using that time to find things wrong with candidates and to be overly critical. Nonetheless, I went to the interview and was appalled to discover that another candidate for the same role had been invited there for the same time Ã¢â‚¬â€œ a big red flag and inappropriate.

I went through the all-day job interview without being offered lunch and was dying to get home. The potential boss seemed amiable, but I believe he went overboard for this easy position. His name was very distinctive and he told me where he used to live. When I returned home from the job interview, I Googled this boss and this is the headline that I found of an article about him from a major newspaper: Ã¢â‚¬Å“Candidate charged with indecent exposure in Ã¢â‚¬Ëœ97Ã¢â‚¬Â

Anyway, I never heard back from that company, and it was probably a blessing in disguise.
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