Job Interview Dilema

[scoles1]

Guys/Girls,

I have applied for a position with a company and I was asked to complete online performance tests. The next day I was contacted about my availability for interview. I emailed the HR woman back and forth and sorted a date and time out.

But I noticed yesterday that the position has been re-advertised on their website which has now left me thinking that they may not be happy with their current crop of candidates ie ME....

Can anyone shed any light on wether or not I am looking too far into this? or if its likely that I am thinking right and the interview will not lead to anything more?


Thanks
Stuart

[EDLT]

1. IN BEFORE THE MOVE!

2. Was the interview through an agency? The one I work for put up an advert for the job they'd given to me.

[scoles1]

Hi,

The job was advertised on there website, and I applied for it. Then its appeared again a couple of days after arranging the interview which left me a bit confused.

Stuart

[mattnunn]

scoles1 said:

Guys/Girls,

I have applied for a position with a company and I was asked to complete online performance tests. The next day I was contacted about my availability for interview. I emailed the HR woman back and forth and sorted a date and time out.

But I noticed yesterday that the position has been re-advertised on their website which has now left me thinking that they may not be happy with their current crop of candidates ie ME....

Can anyone shed any light on wether or not I am looking too far into this? or if its likely that I am thinking right and the interview will not lead to anything more?


Thanks
Stuart

Chill out man, doing well in job interviews is about being confident, relaxed and transferring your confidence in your abillity, without being arrogant.

[scoles1]

mattnunn said:

Chill out man, doing well in job interviews is about being confident, relaxed and transferring your confidence in your abillity, without being arrogant.

Thanks for that, when it comes to interviews I am always a nightmare leading up to them but some how seem to calm right down during the event.

It's just I have never been in this situation before and this is the job that I REALLY want....


Cheers
Stuart

[tbc]

I applied for two relevant jobs to my degree through an agency

i have a wealth of qualifications

sent CV at 10pm, reply of rejection at 9.01am the next day

my conclusion

they already had the job filled and had just advertised it as a formality

[Matt UK]

All bases have to be covered. I'll advertise a job right up until the new hire turns up.

Don't worry, be confident, concentrate on how you are going to go about being selected for the job.

[scoles1]

Thanks for that, I've always said I like to be worried leading up to it as it helps me learn about the company and gather my thoughts. Setting out answers to possible scenarios they may ask.

Here's hoping that I manage to secure this one, 2 weeks today will see me infront of a HR Director and the OIM of a Oil Platform....


Cheers
Stuart

[B Huey]

I doubt they would bother going through with the interview if they had decided you were unsuitable.

[anonymous-user]

It might be that there are multiple jobs

If, for instance, it is a field sales role, many companies have many field sales people and need more regularly

[scoles1]

The job in hand is a mechanical technician position on a oil platform, just to clear that up as I realised i forgot to mention that.


Cheers
Stuart

[Alfanatic]

Candidates often don't turn up for interviews. Candidates also have a habit of accepting offers and then changing their minds. Some will accept an offer and simply not turn up on the first day. Depending on what the job is and what the company / size of company is, they may be more than one vacancy available for that role and description, i.e. they might be looking for 10 systems engineers with nuclear submarine experience, not just one.

These things are quite common. It doesn't hurt to have too many candidates. A healthy, up to date candidate database is a good thing to have, esp. if the company has lots of vacancies. They will often find a CV in the applicants that's a better fit for a different job, or find a CV of a person that they just really want, and create a job for them.

Since the ad is on their own website, it is not costing them anything to keep it there attracting candidates. They will probably leave it up there until the position is filled, and if their recruiting software isn't calibrated particularly well, or has not been well matched to the ad posting software (usually two separate packages, and from different vendors) then the ad may well stay up even after you (be positive ) get the job. Manual setups tend to be less prone to such errors.

If you're getting nervous before an interview, that suggests that you're thinking it through a lot. That's a good thing. The more questions that you can predict and practice answering before you actually get there, the better. Googling the company and reading up about things they are involved in also helps. Read anything and everything you can about them, look through their website extensively, and anything else you can find that mentions them. And don't lie in an interview unless you're really good at it. If this is the job you really want, use the worry to motivate you to prepare. Ask the recruiter what you can expect to find at the interview, i.e. what the likely format will be, if you haven't already. Does the interviewer prefer traditional questioning? Do they tend to run you through a series of psychometric tests? They've given you performance tests already, does that mean they're likely to stick a subject expert in the interview room to grill you to find out if you know your stuff? The more you know about the company and its processes and people, the more it helps.

EDIT: Ah, it looks like I spent so long writing that that I missed the boat completely

Edited by Alfanatic on Monday 23 April 19:41

[scoles1]

Alfantic,

Thank you very much for that response, I was asked to participate in a Predictive Index Survey along with a Problem Solving (unsupervised) Cubiks assessment. The plan for the interview is that when I arrive the HR part will start with another Problem Solving Cubiks assessment which will be supervised followed by the platform OIM who will grill me about my technical knowledge.

I have been revising the company every night keeping an eye on any news that they post on their website and trying to gain knowledge on their assets so that I can relate my technical ability towards their equipment.

I have also been carrying out online tests for the Problem solving assessment so that I can be confident when I arrive there. It will be the same one I sat already but just different quesions.


Stuart

[Beartato]

OT but do you know which platform or is it just for Petrofac/WG/whatever?

[thinfourth2]

Wander over to the scotland forum which is way down the bottom and ask questions as lots of oil and gas folk down there.

Good luck

[Alfanatic]

Excellent!

We (well, ex we, I've changed companies since) did some recruiting for a client with offshore rigs. They would hire technical people in batches, they'd want ten of these experts and five of those experts, so that's probably why the role is still being advertised. In fact they'd often hire people even if they didn't have a job for them to do just yet, and then just keep them on some kind of retainer, because when they DID need to deploy a team, waiting five to ten weeks for a recruitment drive to find the right person was usually out of the question. They don't neccessarily all do that though. Yours isn't the easiest industry to find the right people for.

[Bosshogg76]

If it's someone like Maersk, they have been looking for a fair few Hydraulic/ Mechanical technicians and have been advertising quite a lot. My mate got a job with them about 6 weeks ago, the day after they told him he was successful the add for more was back up on their site looking for more.

Good luck with the interview.

[rog007]

scoles1 said:

Alfantic,

Thank you very much for that response, I was asked to participate in a Predictive Index Survey along with a Problem Solving (unsupervised) Cubiks assessment. The plan for the interview is that when I arrive the HR part will start with another Problem Solving Cubiks assessment which will be supervised followed by the platform OIM who will grill me about my technical knowledge.

I have been revising the company every night keeping an eye on any news that they post on their website and trying to gain knowledge on their assets so that I can relate my technical ability towards their equipment.

I have also been carrying out online tests for the Problem solving assessment so that I can be confident when I arrive there. It will be the same one I sat already but just different quesions.


Stuart

If it helps; recently published evidence suggests that all job interview questions are derivatives of 3 core questions: can you do the job; will you enjoy doing the job; and will you fit. Good luck!

[Matt UK]

rog007 said:

If it helps; recently published evidence suggests that all job interview questions are derivatives of 3 core questions: can you do the job; will you enjoy doing the job; and will you fit. Good luck!

Ultimately, that is all it boils down to IMO

[scoles1]

Cheers for all the replies, much appreciated.

So it's looking like nothing to be too concerned about that they have advertised agin for another month or so.

My other dilema might be that since august last year I have worked with Woodgroup, leaving them in december and starting with Centrica in January. So I think I will also need to assure the new company during the interview that I am by no means a job hopper and the reason for moving so quickly was to be secure financially.

What are peoples opionions of that?

Cheers
Stuart