Interview tomorrow but position filled
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The missus was supposed to have an interview tomorrow for a job, she rang when she got the interview date and time to change it as she can't make it. She's been phoning and waiting all week for their HR dept. to arrange a new time/date but heard nothing.
According to the people she's been speaking to this week all the interviews were being done on thursday but they'd try and fit her into a later slot.
This morning she finally got a call back to tell her that the position has been filled and a standard email saying that she had been unsuccessful and another applicant with better skills etc. had been chosen.
The jobs were advertised via the jobcentre and through the companies own website.
Is this legal?
According to the people she's been speaking to this week all the interviews were being done on thursday but they'd try and fit her into a later slot.
This morning she finally got a call back to tell her that the position has been filled and a standard email saying that she had been unsuccessful and another applicant with better skills etc. had been chosen.
The jobs were advertised via the jobcentre and through the companies own website.
Is this legal?
ooo000ooo said:
The missus was supposed to have an interview tomorrow for a job, she rang when she got the interview date and time to change it as she can't make it. She's been phoning and waiting all week for their HR dept. to arrange a new time/date but heard nothing.
According to the people she's been speaking to this week all the interviews were being done on thursday but they'd try and fit her into a later slot.
This morning she finally got a call back to tell her that the position has been filled and a standard email saying that she had been unsuccessful and another applicant with better skills etc. had been chosen.
The jobs were advertised via the jobcentre and through the companies own website.
Is this legal?
Why would it not be? They've found a candidate they like, and offered them the job. That's life.According to the people she's been speaking to this week all the interviews were being done on thursday but they'd try and fit her into a later slot.
This morning she finally got a call back to tell her that the position has been filled and a standard email saying that she had been unsuccessful and another applicant with better skills etc. had been chosen.
The jobs were advertised via the jobcentre and through the companies own website.
Is this legal?
Unless the person offered the job is a non-EU citizen, or your wife can show sexual discrimination or some such, I don't think it's anything other than standard business practice. Frustrating for your wife certainly, but I would imagine every time you, she, I or just about anyone has been offered a job, there's been someone else looking to line up an interview who is left disappointed.
If the company had arranged a day of interviews, lets say got 10 or so people booked in for that day, and someone is unable to make that one session, it's much easier for them to dismiss that candidate out of hand rather than having to go to the trouble of organising another interview session. That would be my view on it, especially with the number of applicants per role in this climate.
Kermit power said:
Why would it not be? They've found a candidate they like, and offered them the job. That's life.
Unless the person offered the job is a non-EU citizen, or your wife can show sexual discrimination or some such, I don't think it's anything other than standard business practice. Frustrating for your wife certainly, but I would imagine every time you, she, I or just about anyone has been offered a job, there's been someone else looking to line up an interview who is left disappointed.
Just seemed a bit strange that the position has been filled without any of the interviews being conducted, our only experience of job hunting has been the normal - apply for job, interview, get job or not. Unless the person offered the job is a non-EU citizen, or your wife can show sexual discrimination or some such, I don't think it's anything other than standard business practice. Frustrating for your wife certainly, but I would imagine every time you, she, I or just about anyone has been offered a job, there's been someone else looking to line up an interview who is left disappointed.
bonsai said:
If the company had arranged a day of interviews, lets say got 10 or so people booked in for that day, and someone is unable to make that one session, it's much easier for them to dismiss that candidate out of hand rather than having to go to the trouble of organising another interview session. That would be my view on it, especially with the number of applicants per role in this climate.
If they'd told her initially that it was that date & time or nothing then fair enough but they've given the impression over the last few days that they would offer a more convenient interview. 
ooo000ooo said:
bonsai said:
If the company had arranged a day of interviews, lets say got 10 or so people booked in for that day, and someone is unable to make that one session, it's much easier for them to dismiss that candidate out of hand rather than having to go to the trouble of organising another interview session. That would be my view on it, especially with the number of applicants per role in this climate.
If they'd told her initially that it was that date & time or nothing then fair enough but they've given the impression over the last few days that they would offer a more convenient interview. Without further information it sounds to me that the line manager hiring had a "direct" referral or internal candidate but due to company policy had to advertise the role externally, even though he/she already had a candidate in mind. Quite common these days unfortunately and a waste of time for 90% of those involved.
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