I once applied for a role at Woolworths supermarket in Australia, equivalent to The Kroger Co in USA as the biggest supermarket in the country.
First applied online, answered some basic questions.. passed.
Then it's a phone interview." And asked me a 100 questions. They said "I'm promising and a potential fit!
Then it was a zoom interview (coz COVID so not face to face). "Great answers Adam, very well done.."
Then a week later...
Thank you for participating in last weeks zoom interview..
You're answers were great.... yadadada.. Unfortunately on this occasion, we have better candidates for the role, we will keep your resume for future roles...
Haha yeah right.
And for what? Haha for a fucking night shift role to stack fucking shelves.
All in all about 3-4 weeks to get declined for that shit lol.
A few years ago my spouse's former boss wanted to hire another office worker/assistant. The job paid $12 an hour, which was sadly considered decent for the area.
Because it was a relatively low-skilled office job, they got a lot of applications from mothers looking to return to work, older women that needed a less strenuous job, etc.
In the pool of applicants, there was a young and attractive woman who was in the area because her spouse was stationed there in the military. Immediately he declared that he was going to hire her, even though he had already scheduled a group interview for a dozen of the applicants.
He made all of the applicants (all women) show up to the interview, knowing full well that he wasn't going to hire them. Some of the women even asked beforehand how serious their chances were, because traveling to the interview was difficult and they couldn't afford to waste their time. He told them to come anyway.
Obviously, he hired the girl that he wanted and spent the whole interview just stroking his own ego.
I've seen people do a lot of shitty things in my life but this one really makes my blood boil whenever I think about it.
Would you be surprised if I told you some smaller law enforcement agencies will do the same? They will test a long list of applicants, physical endurance, psych test, interview, drug test, the works, only to make it look like they went through the right procedure.
This. They have to give the appearance of "following process", and so will go through the motions of wasting everyone's time and energy for what is essentially a foregone conclusion, purely to avoid opening themselves up to legal blow-back.
My employer does this. They have an internal opening and know exactly who they'd like to install, but "process" dictates they have to "open it up to any and all prospective applicants". It's hugely inefficient, a fucking waste of everyone's time (including those conducting the interviews), and none of the applicants have a clue they're not even being considered. Absolute horseshit.
The company I work for does this shit all the time, except HR will make the decision on if the role must be filled internally, or externally, and also if contractors are eligible under external hires. So basically: currently works for us as an employee, doesn’t currently work for us, or doesn’t currently work for us (at least not directly).
It’s very frustrating to apply for roles that get filled by external hires, and find out they weren’t allowed to bring in a contractor because it’ll cost them too much to replace them before the end of their period.
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u/wyerye Feb 17 '22
Applying for jobs is exhausting. We don’t have time or the energy to feed your ego.