So an HR person called me about a job I applied for, and had a 10 min phone conversation about the basics like my current job, salary expectations, work schedule etc. Then he said I will set you up with a phone interview with the manager of the department I will be working for. Is there another interview after the phone one, especially since I am talking with the manager? Any tips?
The phone interview is usually just to weed out the complete losers who fake their resumes to get past recruiters and HR. They don't want to waste their time having you come in and look like an idiot when you don't know half the stuff you said you did on your resume. There is usually at least one face-to-face afterwards. Usually, that's how it works, anyway... :grin:
There might be, there might not be. Every company does everything differently, especially if their HR department is full of b****es. Then they have you schedule a phone screen, then when they re-check your application realize that you did a phone screen a few months earlier, they cut the middle-of-work-day phone interview short, tell you they'll just "compare notes" and copy-and-paste the same stock rejection email that the other person sent you last time.
Most people fluff their resumes, a small percentage tell the complete truth. Also the phone interview doesn't weed out the liars, it just takes out the incompetent interviewee's. Interviewing is a skill anybody can be good at it if they work on it, to some it comes naturally. Generally the HR person doesn't even know the technical jargon, I've had a phone interviewer telling me to dumb it down for her. BTW I knew a guy who went into an interview with IBM and 90% of his resume was lies, the only thing he knew was how to talk and sell the technical knowledge he knew. He went on to become a manager (making over 160k) and eventually left once he started his own company on the side. He is now a millionaire.
I'm having a difficult time even getting an interview right now. I just can't figure it out. A lot of jobs I am applying for require you to take these on-line skills assessment. I suppose I could be failing them in one way or another. I have almost stopped even trying to apply for jobs that ask you point blank if you ever been fired from a job. The only good reason a company asks that question is to discriminate against you. Does it matter if the last company I worked for broke so many HR Laws as they could to weed out their tentured work force. No. All that matters is that according to your resume you've been fired. Many "corporations" are trying to treat their employees as sweatshop workers. And then when you get fired you can't find another job. grrrrrrrr
I would say yes. In my experience, after the phone interview, if they like you there will be an in person interview. Typically, from my exp, they'll offer you the job at the in person interview as long as you dont *** it up. Nail the phone interview and you'll be golden. Good luck!
Hilarious. I posted this before, but I worked with a guy who had no technical knowledge but could BS his way through anything and could kiss ass like no one I've since met. He would tell management "I can do that"... then come run to us and ask "how can I do that? Could you please do that?" When we helped him, he'd go back and act like he did the work. I swear we wanted to deck this ass-clown everytime we saw him. I googled his name to see what may have happened to him since 1995. He's now a CEO in the Houston area. LOL.
I've almost decided to pack up my stuff, put it in storage and head down to north dakota. I would do it, but the problem is: do I really want to be homeless because they is no place to live except in your car or even worse, paying 3000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment.
There are many things wrong with this country but the mentality of stuff like not hiring people who have been unemployed for 6 months or more just boggles my mind, to no end. And yes I am employed but I know how frustrating it is to get your hopes up only to be turned away. I had a phone interview back in 2010 with Boeing - must not have done too well because I got a courtesy email about a week later saying that I was no longer being considered for the position.
Make a pit stop in Omaha. They've got Google and Yahoo data centers, and First Data, Con Agra, infoUSA, Gallup, TD Ameritrade and Union Pacific headquartered there; you can get a crappy apartment for $500, but it's close enough to work and everybody uses sunscreen.
I might do it because I am in heart attack serious mode about a job. I'll pretty much do anything to secure a good job at this point.
We were at dinner with a customer at a trade show a couple of months ago and one of them blatantly remarked they NEVER hire anyone that isn't working at the time. It can actually go further than that. Anyone out there who has an employment gap on their resume (even if you are currently working) needs to have an explanation for it. Having multiple gaps really looks bad.
Depends. For my currrent job which I just got a few months ago, I had a phone interview with HR, then a very deep technical phone interview with 2 engineers, followed by a technical face to face with 2 more engineers, and finally a face to face with 2 managers.
