The mystery of job interviews
I am currently living in NYC, and looking for a job in Spain since getting a visa here is mission impossible 4.
I finally got an interview after 4months of deep search!Can you imagine how excited I was? Many things sounded a little strange, but I was so happy that I didn’t care.
STEP 1. The “boss” replies my cover letter/email asking if I could go “next Tuesday to their office” to meet them. This is my email, the one he was replying to: “I will be finishing my internship at the beginning of August and will be back to Madrid by August 9th.” I guess he didn’t read my email with much attention…
STEP 2. I explain, again, I´m not in Madrid and if we couldhave a conference call.
He says: “Sounds great! When would the conference call be good for you?what time?”
I reply: ” I work from 9 to 4, so we could talk at my 8am which is your 2pm. Please let me know if this is convenient for you and we will talk on Skype”
STEP 3. NO RESPONSE… My boyfriend tried to calm me down saying it was because Spain had won the World Cup. As we all know, even though we have 5.000.000 people unemployed, hey! lets not worry about it and celebrate for days how we have wan the World Cup which benefits us…IN NO WAY!
STEP 4. “Boss” replies 7 days after my email…he says: ” Sorry for not getting back to you before. Can we have the conference today?”
I was at work, reason why I didn’t see his email, and reason why I couldn’t have spoken to him anyways… So we postponed for next morning.
STEP 5. I wake up very early to wash my hair, put my make up on, decide what to wear, place my laptop strategically so that he won’t see what a messy room I have,etc. I have to remark how tired I was. I hadn’t been sleeping more than 6 hours per night.
Once ready I reach my computer and get a message from “boss” on Skype saying: “Who are you?Do I know you?”. Of course you know me you bastard!I’ve just told you my skype username some hours ago! But I think to myself, calm down, it’s an interview.
We start chatting and I say politely, “is it ok to have the interview now?”. I wasn’t asking…I was being well mannered…to what he has the balls to answer: if you don’t mind, we will have it later, or tomorrow, because we won’t be making any decisions soon”. WTF????????
STEP 6. We arranged to talk today, Saturday morning. I woke up again. Early for a weekend. Did exactly the same stuff as yesterday morning so as to get prepared for the interview. We were supposed to talk at 11am. It´s almost 3pm and guess who isn’t online!!!
I AM DEPRESSED…What kind of person plays with you around in such a way, when all I wanted was to ask him about the skills needed for the job!? Am I supposed to keep on trying to contact him when he clearly doesn’t give a shit about my interest in his company???
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