"Companies are just out there trying to waste my time! It must be a conspiracy!" Now that's a common (and ludicrus) sentiment I hear from candidates I coach.
I'm not sure how this conspiracy started, perhaps in the backrooms of a big corporation one day. Maybe it started just as a joke, and then spread to other corporations.
I can see it now... managers sitting around with HR people, laughing, about how they post job ads, receive resumes, make phone calls, set up and conduct interviews, have applicants fill out paperwork, take notes and make applicant files, and in truth, It's all fake! There's no job opening. They're not wasting their time, they are wasting yours. Oh my! I can see how funny this must be. How productive it is for the company!
From a candidate's point of view
They took:
Ten maybe fifteen seconds to click on a job posting
Three to five minutes on a phone interview
Time for the commute both ways
Thirty minute interview
Then they get rejected and think to themselves, "What a waste of time. They brought me in just to reject me!" They "wasted" two hours of your time collectively, yet how much time did they "waste" writing job postings, screening applications, reading resumes, making phone calls, scheduling interviews, conducting interviews, deciding on who (one person out of many) to hire, and filing necessary paperwork?
Something tells me that for the ONE person that got the job, it wasn't such a waste. Maybe you need to be the ONE or notice why your not, in lieu of thinking the company is out to waste your time.
Dennis
(Video snip is property of IBM corporation)
