When you have ajob interviewcoming up, you plan your time and other work accordingly. If the interview doesn’t go well, all the planning is for nothing. According to the stats fromFair HR, attending a job interview may set a candidate back $72.29. So when a recruiter doesn’t show up, theywaste a candidate’s time.
When it happened to this woman, she decided to call the company out ina post on LinkedIn. She shared her story hoping that some public naming and shaming might lead to better recruitment practices. And many people agreed with her, as they shared similar horror interview stories.
People plan and prepare for their job interviews, and they expect recruiters to do the same
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The woman shared the text messages between her and the recruiter
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The CEO of the company responded to the woman’s claims, too
He claimed to sympathize with Laiba and apologized for the shortcomings of his company. “We are a young organization constantly growing and trying to improve but as with any young and ambitious team we too sometimes make mistakes as we have made here, we can only try to learn from such experiences and persevere to make ourselves better so that hopefully in the future we can be better.”
However, it didn’t do much good, as many people just viewed it as insincerecorporate mumbo-jumbo. “The lack of ownership and validation along with the use of excuses in this comment demonstrates poor leadership and disregard for the other individual’s time and effort,”one commenterpointed out.
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A lack of communication from recruiters is insulting to candidates
The woman’s main gripe with thecompany recruiterwasn’t the rescheduling or the canceling. It was the lack of communication and respect for her time. “I had rescheduled my tasks, taken time off, and even missed an important event for this second interview attempt,” the woman wrote about the second time the interview was rescheduled.
Others thought the opposite. Career coachCharlotte Newman-Fordwrote: “I understand urgent issues arise and sometimes interviews need to be postponed at quite short notice (from either party) but there is NEVER an excuse for why you would not be told – it’s just courteous.” She claims that even if urgent matters arise, that’s what teams are for; colleagues should step up during emergencies.
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Shaming companies on social media can be satisfying, but this should be done with caution
We consider shaming a person online cyberbullying. But doing that to companies somehow doesn’t feel as evil. Journalist and author ofSo You’ve Been Publicly ShamedJon Ronson points out that companies are, too, made up of people. “Shaming a company is not a harmless thing in terms of cruelty towards individuals.”
He admits that shaming on social media sometimes does some good. Like in the case of Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who hiked up the price of a toxoplasmosis drug from $13.50 to $750. In that particular case, public outrage on social media actually forced him to lower the price of the drug.
“Given that we’re the people who have the power, it’s up to us to work out when it’s deserved and when it’s not deserved,” Ronson toldZen Desk. “If a company has just done something stupid and everybody piles in on that company, that’s not a victimless assault. If your company has done something that actually matters, then fine.”
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Many people sympathized with the woman and shared similar stories
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