My Lackluster Interview Story

A few years ago,I saw an advert for a job and I applied , as I got into the Interview room , one of my Interviewers was my friend in the Uni , She told the panel she knows me and declined the Interview

I never knew she worked there neither did She also know I was the candidate prior to the Session. The other Interviewers had the Session with me, and I scaled through to meet with their Client . Story for another day

Now , that is the interesting part , I was requested to attend the Interview at 12 noon and in my custom , I got there 30 minutes before the Session. I was wondering what was going on when I saw many people seated

I am quite perceptive, so I started studying the environment, I observed most of the candidates seem restless , like they had been waiting for long .

I waited till when it was15 minutes past the Interview time , and no one had reached out to me , I proactively approached the person at the reception, who told me,to be patient , it was glaring there was no HR Team, in the organisation or if there was , they are definitely not doing a great job

Moving on , 1 hour, 2 hours , at that time , being the Sanguine that I was and my investigation skills coming to bear , I struck a conversation with the people sitting around me , how long have you been here , I asked ?

To my surprise , I was dazed to realise some had waited for the Session since 8am, others, 9am , I was like what ? I was just weak

Now imagine waiting for 2 hours plus for a Session , I became desperate, how will I justify waiting for so long and not achieve it .The determination turned to anger and after waiting for 4 hours , I decided to exit , churn this to experience I said to myself

The lady at the reception kept begging me to wait , and flippantly mentioned their ED who was the interviewer was on a flight back to Nigeria . What ! I said to myself, this is too much for one person to suffer. For God's sake . Why do people do these?

Anyways , as I proceeded to exit , I saw someone alighting from a car and my mind told me this is person that has troubled you all day ,just wait 😂

I went back had another 1 hour plus waiting and we had the Session which I never enjoyed, whether it was the whole waiting or the person

By the way the Interviewer did not apologise, I would never do that. Immediately I finished , I said to myself, even if this company is the highest paying company in the whole world, should they treat anyone like this?

If you are an Interviewer and fond of delaying candidates because you think they need jobs, or erroneously believe there are no jobs , I will advise you change and do better

By the way sometimes it's not HR's fault , it's the Recruiting Team causing delays and HR can not do that work alone

Let's do better and take Interviews as an important part of a job

IT - March 2023

dfrost:
Hmm...

I know, it's not easy to handle, I'm not in your shoes either. But always hear the other person's perspective (in this instance, the interviewer).

Clean2016:
I won't wait

skillip:
. There is nothing to hear, if an interviewer is running late or there is a delay somewhere, you are suppose to communicate that and the front desk will inform the people starting with an apology " I am sorry we are running late..." Such organisations DO NOT value time, forget about any BS they want to come up with.

fixitbyjal:
You better go and be an entrepreneur

So that all this yeye companies will not use you to catch cruise

Angelfrost:
That's what you get in a nation where there are no stringent labor laws!

A nation where the courts are not available for the cause of the average citizen.

If laws existed and the Judiciary were up to her duties, such nonsense wouldn't be this common... In fact, a lot of nonsense would have stopped, especially abuse of power and office.

Most of these job recruiters clearly have no regard have applicants.... They see y'all as miserable and lowly beggars!

Snowx:
This IT-2023 ata the end though

Are you a student of Digital witch organize by Ekwy??

raphretle:
You should be happy cus at the end of the day it didn't turn out to be those GNLD and NEOLIFE people...

IyaTola:
True, I learnt that any organisation that does ot value your time or communicate timely please run,it a huge red flag