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[quote][b]Paul Gray[/b] wrote: Remind me of an experience I had in 1989 in the UK. Had two interview lined up for the day. First one I arrive ontime, made to wait 30 minutes and then some HR bod appears and hands me a form to fill out, all the stuff thats on my CV. But can I just attach my CV to the form, no I have to manualy fill it out. I'm then interviewed by this HR women who said thats alot of money for somebody your age (I was around 23 at the time and 6 years commercial experience). I then get to have the real interview we all know and love. Asked me questions about barcodes which I ratteled off verbatiam including all ISO standards (having read a artile in a magazine on the train ride over the the interview) I then after lots of technical questions ended up outshining there contracter. Basicly a good interview. I then had the next interview with a software house working in area's I wasn't that upto speed with (first meeting with 4gl's and UNIX having done PC and mainframe work previously). I get offers from both and the first who put me thru all those hurdles endedup not only offering me what was asked but another £2k more ontop of that. I realy nice offer which I instantly turned down on the grounds that (1) I couldn't work for a company with a HR department like that. (2) I'll get to learn more in the other job. Alas that type of HR department has become the norm in so many companies who's sole job appears to casue internal stress on the pretence of health and safty or more importantly not only justifying there existence but too the extent that they grow. We then get HR departments who weed out CV's for being `overqualified` a term I first experience in the early 90's. This is also born out as you have noticed by agencies, in the early days there were mostly ex-IT staff or least had a few at hand to grill out the candidates and would often meet and do the real weeding needed. Nowadays they mostly have spell check level weeding on the basis they can dump lots of CV's to the company at a press of a button for there low margins. I say low margins because you get what you pay for, even if it is disguised in the HR budget. Now I must admit excellent hobby on many levels. Though I would suspect that all the good agencies would of been wise to your lack of entention to take the job and sudo blacklisted you, either directly telling you or just not putting you forward. This would then lead you to use the lesser quality agencies and as such instead of the company getting 20 CV's and interviewing 3-4 people they end up getting hundreds and end up running micro big-brother events to weed them down to the final stages of interviewing were you actualy get what we know as a real interview. As for all the tests I will say that if your a proactive person who is also reactive, then you can have a hell of a time if they use certain systems and try to pidgion hole you to be either one or the other and end up 5 hours and one eclipse of the Sun later no closer to getting the job from a manager who started a week earlier and the two inhouse recruitment system guru's. But thats usualy the time were your best of running your own business, funny that and I hope it keeps you sane knowing things could be alot worse, you could need that interview offer.[/quote]
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