Early in June, I had a 1.5 hour talk/phone interview with an HR lady for a high level admin position. I crushed it. It’s a dude who started his own business that’s now huge and he needed admin support. I have almost 20 years of experience. She has me take a personality test and two other assessments. It all took about 3 hours to complete. I then meet with CEO guy for another hour.
Talking to CEO guy, there were a ton of red flags. I’ve worked for people like this before and it was ungodly awful. This guy needed someone to tie his shoes for him and to be available at all hours of the day, including the middle of the night, weekends and holidays. No overtime and HR lady even admitted that they don’t pay well. This is a $40k/year job.
I met with CEO guy in the morning and by late afternoon HR lady calls me and offers me the job, around 3:00. I had already had conversations with my husband about schedules and availability but now that it was “real” I wanted to talk to him one more time and discuss these red flags. He wasn’t home yet so I asked HR lady to give me the evening and that I’d call her first thing in the morning.
She was SHOCKED that I asked for the evening and asked why I didn’t immediately accept. I politely explain that I need just the evening and we hang up. 30 minutes later she sends me an email saying that the offer is rescinded and that they’re moving on with other candidates. I sent a short email back saying how blatantly unprofessional this is and wished her the best in filling the position. This was on 6/23.
Well, day before yesterday, guess who emails me. Confused and mildly entertained, I ask why she’s contacting me since they had “moved on” with other candidates. She wanted to “explain and apologize and see if I was still interested”. I said thanks but no thanks. They’ve wasted enough of my time.
And companies can’t figure out why they can’t hire good people… lol