This was when I was looking prior to graduation. My desire was to make money, and I wasn't particularly skilled at smelling BS from job postings.
A large, national (maybe even international) company was opening a new tech office downtown. I put my resume in during the school career fair, and they call me up to do an initial in-person interview. A few people from the main office flew in and were just going to work through as many applicants as they could that day. So I put on my one suit and get my boyfriend to take time off to drive me downtown for this interview.
It was awful. As I said, I gave my resume to the recruiter rather than putting it in for a specific role. It ends up, that's because they were doing 1 interview for at least 8 roles within the new office. Anywhere from DBA to software dev to non-technical business stuffs... I really have no clue since it's not like they could speak to what the job would be like when it was actually several possible jobs. Each person on the panel would decide if they wanted to continue the process with you for their branch of job functionality, so there were no specifics. The interview was just fluff where they can't ask anything pointed about me and I can't ask anything pointed about them. Apparently, each branch was management track though, so they wanted college grads? I just wanted to eat and know what I'm doing, but at no point could they prove that was ever a possibility.
Boyfriend and I just kind of spent the rest of the day being tourists downtown before heading back to campus since we paid for parking. A couple of months later, I got an email saying they had gone through 3 rounds of picking people that I was skipped for, so did I want to be still in consideration for the next round? I bowed out.
While it wasn't offensive or anything, I needed a job so badly and was in a hole of despair and it was just a terrible crushing experience that made everything feel more hopeless.
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This was when I was looking prior to graduation. My desire was to make money, and I wasn't particularly skilled at smelling BS from job postings.
A large, national (maybe even international) company was opening a new tech office downtown. I put my resume in during the school career fair, and they call me up to do an initial in-person interview. A few people from the main office flew in and were just going to work through as many applicants as they could that day. So I put on my one suit and get my boyfriend to take time off to drive me downtown for this interview.
It was awful. As I said, I gave my resume to the recruiter rather than putting it in for a specific role. It ends up, that's because they were doing 1 interview for at least 8 roles within the new office. Anywhere from DBA to software dev to non-technical business stuffs... I really have no clue since it's not like they could speak to what the job would be like when it was actually several possible jobs. Each person on the panel would decide if they wanted to continue the process with you for their branch of job functionality, so there were no specifics. The interview was just fluff where they can't ask anything pointed about me and I can't ask anything pointed about them. Apparently, each branch was management track though, so they wanted college grads? I just wanted to eat and know what I'm doing, but at no point could they prove that was ever a possibility.
Boyfriend and I just kind of spent the rest of the day being tourists downtown before heading back to campus since we paid for parking. A couple of months later, I got an email saying they had gone through 3 rounds of picking people that I was skipped for, so did I want to be still in consideration for the next round? I bowed out.
While it wasn't offensive or anything, I needed a job so badly and was in a hole of despair and it was just a terrible crushing experience that made everything feel more hopeless.