Corporate Courtesy Is Dead

A little over a week ago, I had one of the worst job interviews I’ve had in a very, very long time.  I’m not going to name names* but I wanted to take a moment to discuss this particular experience because I think there’s a couple business lessons to be learned here. 

This experience started, like so many of them do, with a phone interview with a human resources person in the main office of the company.  That went well and the hr person I spoke with was very professional.  He called back to schedule the interview and after we selected a time, he said he’d send email to confirm once the interviewer accepted the appointment.  This ended up taking a few days which should’ve been a big red flag.  (more…)

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