interview in hotel??

mac1st3 said:
I've heard some places do interviews in the hotel lobby/coffee area, kind of a power-play, makes you think they're bigger than they are, when really it just means their offices don't have any meetingrooms/anywhere to perform interviews.
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Could well be something like that.

I know a couple of people who broke away from a Consultancy and setup their own business. They operate the business from a flat, but use a mailing address in a business district of London, so makes it sound like they probably have a fancy office somewhere. They therefore hold their interviews in all manner of different locations, a hotel could be one such place.

Of course there may be many other reasons why they might be doing so, especially if it was quite a specific and important role and there was a distance between you.
 
PwnDirect said:
Just make sure you find a hotel that can give you a room thatt looks like this;
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it says a lot about me that i knew it immediately :o
 
I had a job interview at a pub once, don't remember much of that night. All I know is I got the job, quit it a few years later and still hang out with my boss.
 
mac1st3 said:
I've heard some places do interviews in the hotel lobby/coffee area, kind of a power-play, makes you think they're bigger than they are, when really it just means their offices don't have any meetingrooms/anywhere to perform interviews.
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not really... it would generally make you think the second bit... that they perhaps don't have much in the way of office space...

Tis perhaps plausible for a new/small consultancy firm if the majority of the staff are working on site at clients...
 
Amleto said:
Doesn't that come across as strange/creepy for a consulting business?

My spidey sense is tingling...
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So wait. A consultancy business is holding a job interview in your hotel?

Sounds dodgy.

Are you sure it's a legitimate business?

There's a scam which involves criminals posing to be from seemingly established companies, they obviously don't have their own business premises so they hire small interview rooms in hotels or office blocks to hold fake interviews.

When the job seeker attends they get offered the job of course, but the catch is you have to take out training worth anywhere between £100-500 "before they let you handle their clients".

They give you a fake contract, an e-learning course voucher, and leave up to £500 richer, and you never hear from them again.
 
I had an interview with a recruitment firm years ago in a local hotel and it was fine.

All I would say is if they ask for money walk away as Asim says that's the scam at the moment.
 
We regularly have our meeting rooms booked out for interviews. Most of the time they are 'household name' companies.
 
If you watch Suits, they interview associates in a hotel :p

In all seriousness though, it does happen, eg. if they are doing a big batch of interviews and don't want to create disruption in the office, or for grad schemes they go to university towns and do some there as students don't like to travel
 
I see OP telling great stories of a bunga bunga party that went down during/after the interview :D
 
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