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Group Interview?? More like a cattle call! Interview was a waste of my time!
Well, the "group interview" was a joke. It was a cattle call. There were 20 people there!! I was expecting like 5 or 8 people. The first thing they said was no benefits are offered. I asked that in my email! They could have said that upfront instead of wasting my time. That automatically tells me that you dont respect me and value my time. The guy handed out free coupons for his services - he was just selling to us. He said work has to come first in your life. There may be times you work from 6:30am to 9pm at night without notice. Ummm no. I have a personal life and you have to respect that too. The guy was a total prick. I dont know what it pays - but not enough!! I mean... tell me upfront there are no benefits. I cant work for a place that would never offer benefits... ever. I would have no future there. No 401k, health insurance, maternity leave, and busting my butt working crazy hours. Argh!! He made it sound like there were no vacation days either, or at least very few. The doctor was wearing jeans and had his kid there with him too. Just not a place where I would fit in. Im not going to waste my time or their time. The office, and interviewer, were total unprofessional. People were getting up and walking out. It was awful. Oh, and he said he fired the last 5 people because they couldnt work with him... umm... RED FLAG!
Re: Group Interview?? More like a cattle call! Interview was a waste of my time!
AG- I'm so sorry it was such a let down. Trust me, once you land a job, you'll look back at this and laugh.
What kind of coupons were being passed out? I've never heard of that!
Did you stay for the entire thing? I think I would have walked out with the others.
I think most of us have some type of nightmare interview story-you're not alone. Don't let this discourage you.
That definitely sounds like an awful place to work. Why would an interviewer give out coupons for his services? That is very odd. And working 6:30 am to 9:30 at night w/o notice? Yeah right! I can see having to work later every so often if there's things that need to get done, but that is just ridiculous.
Was this a legit business? Where did you hear about the job?
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Thats just awful and sorry that they wasted your time.
I feel like since there are sooo many people looking for jobs that employers that are hiring feel like they can get away with this. Its like come on? Would you like to be treated like cattle too?
I have a college degree I deserve a little respect please. I have gotten to the point when i get a call back to schudule an interview I ask them if its going to be a group interview or not. And if they say yes i politely turn them down.
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I have gone to a couple of these cattle call interviews and generally all it really is is a sales pitch geared toward a sales job.
I'd have vamoosed after I heard "no benefits." Sheesh...talk about no communication.
Do a bit more research on this "organization", if you are curious -- I will bet that it's some kind of a scam.
I went to ONE group interview on a SATURDAY. They posted on a popular website in my field, so the 20 of us they did bring in was out of 750+ applicants (I guess I should have been flattered. But seriously, 9 am on a SATURDAY. Then my individual interview wasn't until 1 pm!
And really who wants to actually SEE the competition? Plus, they only allotted like 10 minutes per interview and took freaking polaroids of everyone. It was so ridiculous.
I guess this is all good material for our books ;-)
How many candidates weeded him out for being an ass?
My company does something similar to this- Group interviews with a presentation and building walk through. I actually run them. I am VERY straightforward and a little harsh in explaining the job, the hours and expectations. My goal is to weed out the people who aren?t truly interested.
It work. Normally less than half the people chose come back for an interview.
I can't believe the rep didn't bother to answer your questions by email though.. I try to weed people out by email before they even show up for the group presentation.
Ugh! I am so sorry to hear about that. I've been to a number of cattle call interviews and they just NEVER go well. The worst one was, the guy briefly described the job and then passed out applications. He then emphasized that, since it is a pretty easy job that almost anyone can do, he's really just looking for whoever wants the least money. Literally said that. I felt like the interview had just turned into a reverse auction, lol. Oh yeah, and that job didn't have any benefits either.
Before the interview started, me and the woman next to me had been chit-chatting. I had a BS and a few years experience. She also had a BS and substantial experience as a legal secretary. So as it turned out, we were both grossly overqualified for the job. When he left the room for all of us to fill out the application, she and I exchanged looks and started laughing. We compared notes and both asked for outlandish salaries, just to have fun with it.
The other one that pissed me off was a cattle call for Cox Communication (our local cable company). They had this super long full-page ad in the local paper with all kinds of information...but nothing about the salary. Okay, fair enough, not too unusual. But then I go to the "classroom" style interview and the very FIRST thing the guy writes on the board is the hourly wage. Which was pathetic. I mean, if the hourly wage is so set and non-secret, than why not have it in the ad to begin with and not waste everyone's time?
But, that's okay, I got them back a little. As soon as he wrote that figure, I grabbed my purse and got up to leave. And, while I tried to be as unobstrusive as I could, the seating was tight and I had to squeeze past a bunch of people. Everyone in the room was looking at me, lol, and even the presenter guy kind of faltered in what he was saying. And, once I started the trend, a few more people had the courage to get up and leave also.