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Originally Posted by Fishwhenican
I would be fine with all communication taking place via email. Heck I would even interview via email if I could. Well... Maybe that's not true. I am a heck of salesman and think I interview very well.
Don't worry about it. If all else fails you can always just work your way through it and not get the job. You are no worse off than before. Every chance to interview should be looked at as an opportunity to, if nothing else, sharpen your interview skills.
Yeah, but it's a serious waste of time. You figure I have to break the schedule of my day for this. I don't have a car, so this could easily be a 4+ hour chunk for these things. I'd much rather have a phone call and if it goes south, I'd rather not go.
The point is that it makes the company look fairly unprofessional in my view. Not sure about how Dom's statement about interviewing a grip of people is relevant since I live in Los Angeles and every position is interviewed by 500 people, basically.
The part that really gets my goat is that so many companies ask for a well-thought out cover letter. I often do this and then I get no response or I get a boilerplate response. What a way to make you feel like a sucker. I know that 90% of all the resumes don't have a cover letter no matter what you specify in a job ad and I only write one when they specify it so I been thinking of a sarcastic thing to put in the middle of my cover letter: "Just to be sure that you are detail-oriented, please respond with the number 5 in your rejection letter's subject line. I prefer to work with people that pay attention to detail and follow directions." I'd literally be less than 5% of all applicants that followed this simple instruction. I deserve a rejection letter at least.
This one is way too far and it's a group interview so I'm not going for it.
Last edited by daveT; 03-13-2013 at 03:14 PM.