Older & Wiser

Having thoroughly enjoyed my Birthday weekend, Monday arrives all too soon and I am back to spending my days applying for job, after job, after job…

I was waiting to hear from Company B with regards to the interview that I had with them last week and when I do they offer me the job. I know I should be ecstatic but I’m really not, it only leaves me with two days to move down to Basingstoke and I’m starting to doubt whether I really want this job. The manager who I speak to is also becoming quite pushy with me and this only serves to put me off even more. After much thought, I decide that this job isn’t right for and turn it down. At least I know that I can actually get a job I guess but getting the one that I want is still proving tough.

Company D (the one that was really keen on me) has yet to contact me with regards to a second interview and when I ring up I never get through to the person I want to speak to due to them being ‘tied up in an important meeting’, which I’m sure is the case! I decide to leave it for the week and wait for them to ring me but Friday comes and goes without so much of a missed call. I ring again on Monday morning to be told that the person who I have been dealing with is now on holiday for the week, I assume at this point that I haven’t got the job and add it to my ever growing pile of rejections.

In the meantime, I have had a call from Company F about a role as a Bid Manager; I already have experience in this area due to working as a Bid Team Support Executive for a year as part of my Degree, so I decide to arrange an interview. After looking at the job description, I know that I can do this job and am feeling rather positive on my way to the interview. The interview goes really well and I am told that I should hear by the beginning of next week but as always, companies do whatever they want and I get an email through to say that they have had late applications through and I will find out by the following week. Whatever happened to having closing dates on applications?!
Whilst waiting around for Company F to get back to me, Company D finally gets in contact. It’s not the person that I had the previous interview with but their manager, and I pretty much have to go through all the same questions that I had been asked the first time round again over the phone. Once I had answered all the questions we arranged a face-to-face interview for the following week. Again the interview seems to go okay and I am told that they have a couple more people to interview and I should hear by the end of the week. That was September, we are now in December and I still haven’t heard anything so I’m assuming it’s a ‘No’.

I’d had enough of waiting around for Company F so I email the contact that I have there to find out whether they had made a decision yet or not, surprise surprise they had made a decision and it wasn’t me. They decided to recruit internally but they were really impressed with me and if the situation had been different, I would have gotten the job! That annoys me more then anything knowing that I was so close to getting it, I’d rather be told that I was absolutely rubbish and there was no way they would employ me!

I’m going to end this entry with a rant; I am sick and tired of companies making up their own rules when it comes to interviews and recruitment. If you say you are going to get back to someone by a certain day, then you should! It’s not fair to keep people in the dark especially when they have made the effort to fill out long application forms and attend interviews, it’s just common decency. Okay, end of rant, bring on the next couple of weeks of application forms, interviews and rejections…