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The hiring manager didn’t factor in time zones when scheduling

Just venting. A recruiter contacted me recently. Actually, multiple recruiters contacted me, but only one listened to my request to email instead of call. He scheduled a call for me with his hiring manager for 12:30 yesterday. It's a national company, and I'm not sure where they're located, but they at least know I'm in Maine. When they didn't call, I sent an email saying I don't have any free time the rest of the day and need to reschedule. He said his manager had called me at 12:30 – they called me at 1:45. I realized we may be in different time zones and pointed this out, and scheduled a new call for 12:30 EST today. I did confirm EST. it's now 1pm, nothing. I do want this job, but if they can't pay attention to something as simple as that, I can't expect them to respect me or…


Just venting. A recruiter contacted me recently. Actually, multiple recruiters contacted me, but only one listened to my request to email instead of call. He scheduled a call for me with his hiring manager for 12:30 yesterday. It's a national company, and I'm not sure where they're located, but they at least know I'm in Maine. When they didn't call, I sent an email saying I don't have any free time the rest of the day and need to reschedule. He said his manager had called me at 12:30 – they called me at 1:45. I realized we may be in different time zones and pointed this out, and scheduled a new call for 12:30 EST today. I did confirm EST. it's now 1pm, nothing. I do want this job, but if they can't pay attention to something as simple as that, I can't expect them to respect me or my time in the future. If I get a call at 1:30, I will be telling them so.

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