Phone interview... still waiting for the call!

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:38

HELP!
I'm in a rather nervous disposition. After giving out my CV at the Careers Fair yesterday, Reckitt Benkiser have booked me in for a phone interview at 2pm today! Yay~ but wait... it's almost 20 to 3pm and I'm still waiting for the call.

To top it off, I'm slowly sinking into my nerves and really need to use the toilet for number 2.

What should I do?!

I have the business card of the person who booked me in for the interview - including his contact details. Should I phone or should I continue playing the waiting game...?

AHH!

antijoke · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:41

When they call, pick up and say "Your call is important to us, please bear with us until the next available operator is available" then whistle a little, then repeat and see how long he will hold for.

Doesn't seem like a great company to me if they canot keep to appointments.

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:43

Well, it's a phone interview for placements at RB for 1 year.
They have an intermediate to do the filtering before the actual departmental interview in the last phase. Anyone heard of Techseach? They're the HR consultant.

Anyway, still waiting

HarryPainful · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:49

Phone and ask what's going on, they might have lost your details or something like that.

Ex-RoNiN · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:51

HarryPainful said:
Phone and ask what's going on, they might have lost your details or something like that.

Do this

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:51

HarryPainful said:
Phone and ask what's going on, they might have lost your details or something like that.

Hmm... true.
I'll wait another 10mins and phone them. As if an interview isn't ready nerve wreaking enough~

Ex-RoNiN · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:52

Mr Jones said:
Hmm... true.
I'll wait another 10mins and phone them. As if an interview isn't ready nerve wreaking enough~

You should have done this 10min after they were supposed to call btw.

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:54

Ex-RoNiN said:
You should have done this 10min after they were supposed to call btw.

I wasn't too sure, I thought that would appear... impatient or something stupid. I didn't think straight.

Ex-RoNiN · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:54

Mr Jones said:
I wasn't too sure, I thought that would appear... impatient or something stupid. I didn't think straight.

STOP POSTING AND CALL!!

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 14:57

Ex-RoNiN said:
STOP POSTING AND CALL!!

Just did it.
Damn guy was too busy today and didn't see the need to give me a message or a quick call. Got it rearranged for tomorrow. Ahh~

Andr3w · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:01

Wow thats really crap :\

Go and have your poo!

Smit · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:06

I can remember a few months ago when I was supposed to have a telephone interview, I sat in and waited for a few hours (didn't have the companies phone number just the agencies but the agent was out of the office).

Turned out that my interview had been rearranged to a few days later but I was never informed

Amp34 · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:09

My telephone interview a few months ago was dead on the time it was supposed to be.

Not that that made my nerves any better...

Bear in mind some companies supposedly like keeping you sweating a bit, so just because they haven't called on the dot doesn't mean they didn't do it on purpose.

SlyReaper · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:13

That's poor. Whenever I've had phone interviews, I received the call bang on the dot when it was supposed to be. Frankly, it would **** me off if it was otherwise. It's arrogant of them to be all "oh we're oh so busy right now and you're not a high enough priority to even let you know what's happening".

I'm inclined to say they're not worth your time interviewing for. But it's obviously your call.

antijoke · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:14

If you would have turned up for an interview late you wouldn't get the job, this is totally un-acceptable.

Dano · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:17

anticonscience said:
If you would have turned up for an interview late you wouldn't get the job, this is totally un-acceptable.

Agreed, an interview is a two way thing. I'd not want to work for a company that treats me like that from the outset.

SlyReaper · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:18

Amp34 said:
Bear in mind some companies supposedly like keeping you sweating a bit, so just because they haven't called on the dot doesn't mean they didn't do it on purpose.

And that's just cheap and sadistic. And again, very arrogant. If you turned up to an interview late, they wouldn't hire you. By the same token, if they don't call you for your interview on time, you shouldn't work for them. It always seems to be that employers are in the position of power, which ****** me off. They should work just as hard to attract you as you're working to attract them.

Having gone through the job seeking thing myself very recently, and having had to put up with this kind of ******** (and other kinds) from quite a few companies, I could rant all day. :mad:

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:20

SlyReaper said:
I'm inclined to say they're not worth your time interviewing for. But it's obviously your call.

anticonscience said:
If you would have turned up for an interview late you wouldn't get the job, this is totally un-acceptable.

I can see where you guys are coming fro - I am personally annoyed by it but I'm annoyed at the consultant, not the company I want to work for (yet). As this isn't R.B's fault.

Plus, I would really like to work at RB for the year - good experience, good pay, it's a working interview with high prospect of getting a job with them after and big plus is, it's right near where I'm studying/living right now. Means I don't have to move out of my comfortable accommodation and back again for my final year.

See how it goes tomorrow, if he sits me up again then I'll give them the fingers and move on.

antijoke · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:22

So it was a recruitment firm phoning you?

Mr Jones · 29 Oct 2008 at 15:26

anticonscience said:
So it was a recruitment firm phoning you?

It's a "Technical Human Resource Consultants" firm call "Techsearch" that does all the placements filters for RB. Essentially, they look for people that fits the company expectations, filter them down before submission to RB for the departmental interview, to get the placement at RB.