So it is past two weeks since we have started this blog and the results are two phone interviews. That is positive. However, the screener from the first interview said that she would let me know if I would be moved forward to the next round of face to face interviews or not be moved forward today. Either way, she said, I would hear from her. Well, of course, she didn't call, so now I can spend the weekend debating in my head what I said that made them not want to hire me, or was it that I asked too much for a salary, or was I really god as a strong #2 and would have been hired by anyone else, but in this case they found the one perfect candidate that was better than me. Or, maybe they had an internal candidate all the time and this was just a process they had to go through to justify the hiring, knowing all along what they were going to do.
Then, there is the possibility that the phone screener was busy and just ran out of time to get back to me. It happens to me all the time where I go to work with a list of four things to do and at the end f the day I look at my least and not a single thing is completed because some other "emergency" popped up that no one expected. So, for the rest of the weekend, I will gladly believe that they just got so busy they ran out of time to give me a call.
Related to this, when did the screening interview over the phone become the standard practice?Back when I last was hired for a new job, I was contacted for a live, face to face interview with the committee that was interviewing all the finalists for the position. That was almost 12 years ago, and I think the major difference and why the phone screening interview has been created is as simple as the fact that everyone has a cell phone now. The ability to contact every person that applies for a job, or at least the top ten or fifteen candidates with a cell phone direct to their pocket is now normal. Ten years ago, someone would have to call their home or work number and leave a message and hope for them to a return call the next day. Now, a company can call direct to their applicants, ask a quick five or six questions and select the applicants that gave the best or correct answers. Instead of trying to decipher and decode what an applicant is like with written word and a paper resume, you can call each person and ask them to clarify what they had written on their resume.
So, as much as I love new technology and my cell phone, it has actually created one more step in the hiring process.
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