Negative Progress
Posted: Mon 4 February, 2008 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Work-related |1 Comment »So, as it turns out the interviews last week weren’t as successful as I’d thought.
The one for the permanent job hasn’t gone any further, as I don’t have a couple of things in my skillset that they deemed essential. Not important enough to put in the job-spec, of course, but still essential to the job itself. Which is a pain in the tits, because it means that I’ve wasted my time (and theirs) by going for something that (because of my not having those essential bits) I had no hope of getting.
The other one is even more irritating, truth be told. If they had stuck to their initial spec/requirements, I’d have got the contract and all would be well. Except the (non-technical) board changed their minds, and decided that actually the necessary work could be done 50% cheaper, and in half the time, so that having been in and interviewed well, all of a sudden I was too expensive, and the contract came down from three months to six weeks.
That’s the second one with that problem in less than a month.
Now I realise that it’s looking like financial times are going to be a bit tough for the next few months for a lot of businesses, but surely it’s a bit late to be thinking about that when you’ve already agreed terms with a recruitment agency, interviewed people, and spent money on it all ?
Ah well, more CVs and the like have been sent out today, and will be through the rest of the week/month, so we’ll just have to see what comes up.
You too huh?
I saw a vacancy that sounded like a perfect match with my CV. It turns out that the reason they didn’t want to see me was because of a lacking in one skill area that was mentioned in passing on the spec and was vastly outweighed by the other areas of the job description. I mentioned to the agency that if that was going to be a sticking point then they should stress it in the advert.