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| jarbob69 2003-11-18, 7:55 am |
| Just venting here...
I applied for a job last week that was a perfect fit for me based on my previous experience and personal inclinations, and it could not have been any more obvious to anyone with half a brain. A consulting company was going through a staffing/recruiting agency to filter out potential applicants, I'm sure, because they expected to get several hundred resumes for only two positions. I left the screening interview at the staffing agency feeling very confident of the chances of a callback. The lady I interviewed with was dumb as a brick, but she said the people who met the requirements would be passed on to the employer to call back.
Now, the advertisement I saw for this job read something like this: "Our customer is looking for two network administrators with MCSE and Windows 2000 certification...". Naturally, I assumed this means the MCSE 2000.
I get a rejection letter back from the lady at the staffing agency saying I am not qualified because "I did not have certifications in both MCSE and Windows 2000" as if they weren't the same thing, and she never passed my information along to the geeks at the company who would actually know what they were looking at. WTF????? Frickin' dumbass.
Now a month later, this stupid beeyotch has had to resort to placing an ad in the paper and reworded the certifications requirement to "must have both MCSE and Windows 2000 Certifications - NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!". Me thinks she has gotten lots of stupid MCSE 2000s who can't get it through their thick skulls that she is looking for "Windows 2000 certification".
Fortunately, I still have a job, though maybe for just a few more months. Bankruptcy sucks.  | |
| Papiya 2003-11-18, 7:57 am |
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Originally posted by jarbob69
Fortunately, I still have a job, though maybe for just a few more months. Bankruptcy sucks.
Same situation here. Yes, it does suck. Getting clueless HR people to do tech interviews sucks as well. | |
| thecomeons 2003-11-18, 8:19 am |
| yup. it's like getting an interview panel of nuns to assess candidates for a brothel.
hang on.... | |
| jimbo2002 2003-11-18, 5:01 pm |
| Yep, you have to explain all the technical stuff to them because they dont have a clue and they will have a big say in whether or not you could do the job. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-11-18, 6:21 pm |
| Least you were not turned down because you didn't have 10 years exp. with windows 2000.  | |
| Win2K3Guy 2003-11-21, 12:49 am |
| Wow.... That is something else! Do you really want to work for them after that display of stupidity? | |
| Papiya 2003-11-21, 7:35 am |
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Originally posted by jimbo2002
Yep, you have to explain all the technical stuff to them because they dont have a clue and they will have a big say in whether or not you could do the job.
This particularly annoys me. There is no frustration like getting interviewed by someone you think has some knowlege at first only to find they are an HR person later. I remember at an interview once when asked of my qualifications, spent about three minutes explaining my experience and qualifications to the interviewer. For a follow-up, I asked what I assumed to be were good questions to her. She then interjected that she was not an "IT person" and that to get those questions answered, I would have to talk to the IT staff. She had no clue what I was talking about. Very infuritating! | |
| jimbo2002 2003-11-22, 5:54 am |
| I think part of the problem is the so called "screening interview" you know, where they decide on the basis of this interview if you will get an interview for the job by the relevant department. Since there will probably be a lot of people to be interviewed at the screening interview the person who does this will probably be someone in the organisation who has loads of time for this, in other words not essential. So they probably wont have a clue on the tech. side, in other words if they like you, you may get a second interview relevant to your job app. if they dont, you wont get a chance. |
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