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Candidate TJNTIYs are anecdotes from job candidates about the things potential employers do that suggest "they're just not that into you".

When You Are Alone in the Interview Location and You Talk, Is There Anyone There To Listen?

This was 20 years ago. I was invited to an interview at one of the large US automakers' Research Labs in Detroit. The recruiter had set up the interview on behalf of the hiring manager and made all the travel arrangements, Excellent flight arrangements and had ordered an airport pickup with one of their Stretch Limos (they had a Stretch Limo desk just for setting uop Limo rides!). Nice trip into the office, except there wasn't anyone at the other end to interview me! No Recruiter, No Hiring Manager! The poor front office people did not have a clue as to what to do with me and I did not know what else to do except keep trying to contact the Recruiter who could not be reached by office phone or home phone! This was pre-cell phone days and those were the only options! But the return Stretch Limo to the airport was ready and the flight back was excellent also. This one is going bankrupt and am I surprised at all? Not in the least bit! What a company! TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/12/2009 - 20:29
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If These Walls Could Talk, He'd Talk Back

At one interview with a top 100 Company here in CT, the interviewer started talking to the wall. He was annoyed that he had to take the time to interview me. I thought that was completely rude and unprofessional. TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/13/2009 - 07:32
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"Be Prepared" Not a Motto of This CEO

I once interviewed with a company in Dublin, Ireland. The company's CEO had a freshly printed copy of my CV and had had no time to read it, although I had been waiting for 15 minutes. When he finally did review my CV, he assumed that my current job (first one in the document) was my oldest job, acting bewildered. I resisted the urge to leave the room, but was glad not to have been offered the job. TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/29/2009 - 05:22
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Non Conformist

So as a former body piercing professional at a tattoo shop i had naturally made some modifications to my body, no visible tattoos just piercings my ears are "gauged" which means basically i have a 1/2 inch diameter hole in my earlobes. I have decided to change professions, nothing specific in mind until I complete college. It seems that even though I remove all of my piercings before submitting an application or going to an interview the holes in my ears are still very noticeable. I could take them but even then it would take a long time for the holes to close and personally i don't feel my lifestyle should have to be changed since I feel taking out the piercings for work is enough. Any ways it seems potential employers are JNTIM, I think it is a shame because if someone were in a car accident and ended up with a permanent 1/2 inch hole in their earlobe it wouldn't be discriminated against but hey if you try to be different in this world i can say as far as an employer is concerned TJNTIY

  • By Anonymous at 06/13/2009 - 07:38
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A Sick Excuse for a Candidate Interviewer

Several years ago, I interviewed for a job. When following up, I was told that I would be scheduled for a second interview. The person was always out sick. They called me back again for the interview. When I arrived the receptionist had no idea who I was and in an odd way asked if he was expecting me. She went off, then a few minutes later someone else came out and said that he went home sick. Then the person I had the first interview with said that he tried calling me on my cell phone about 30 minutes before the interview to let me know it needed to be rescheduled. I never received that call or voice mail, I would have been in transit during that time. The interview was never rescheduled. If they are not interested, don’t string me along and make me come in a second time for something that isn’t going to happen. Very odd. Because of the long time span, a couple of months, I suspect they hired someone that didn’t work out and were calling me back. They probably filled it again right before I got there and didn’t want to say anything. Less than a month later I found my next position. TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/13/2009 - 07:41
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Candidate Told to Exit Stage Left

Well after one interview the interviewer said "don't let the door hit you on the way out" but other than that I think she loved me. TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/13/2009 - 07:45
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Boy oh Boy, the Old Boys' Network . . .

This really did happen to me...in January 2009.....I was asked by the C-suite team .....if I was married, if I had children, how old I was, and did I vote for Obama .... I told the headhunter who recruited me that she needed to do some training with her client on illegal and inappropriate questions to ask candidates. I didn't get the job and I am not disappointed---if that was how the executive team was going to behave on interviews, I could only imagine what it would be like to work with them! TJNTIY.

  • By Anonymous at 06/13/2009 - 15:21
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