Recruitment Headache

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MR_Punk

MR_Punk

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I have recently been heading a recruitment for a Night Op's Manager for the firm I work for (Global Logistics Company, no not DHL :p) and I got quite a lot of applications. Some really good ones too. I managed to narrow that down to 15 first stage interview candidates. All of which were invited and all of them responded saying they were looking forward to the interview etc.

I was happily on my merry way and was confident that I would be a little spoilt for choice come first interview time.

So here I am sat after the interview's and only 3 out of 15 bothered to show up. A couple cancelled by email literally minutes from their allocated start times and the rest just no showed.

Slightly miffed as I have put time and effort into getting to this stage and now need to start again.

@Mods - apologies, put this in the wrong sub-forum can you more to C&P please?
 
Folk can't be bothered with BGT style knockout stages. If I apply for a job, I expect to get a interview then a job offer. Not various interview stages.

Also they may have applied for other jobs at the same time and been offered a position. Therefore they decided not to go you your interview stages.
 
Why do you need to start again? You had three to interview - take the best of those three? Unless none of the three were suitable ofc.
 
How many stages were you planning on having and did you tell them? I ended up having 3 interviews for my current place and if I wasn't desperate to escape my last I probably wouldn't have bothered as it was a pain having to dodge questions from my current place and get there at short notice.
 
LeeUK said:
Folk can't be bothered with BGT style knockout stages. If I apply for a job, I expect to get a interview then a job offer. Not various interview stages.

Also they may have applied for other jobs at the same time and been offered a position. Therefore they decided not to go you your interview stages.
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I dunno, it depends on the job/level of responsibility, for a junior/low level position with not a lot of responsibility then sure, a single interview is enough, for someone higher level though, I can understand there being a couple of stages to get the proper measure of someone. Not sure how much responsibility a night ops manager would have, but at a guess it's going to be a lot more then a bottom of the ladder admin etc
 
You've got three to choose from....I think that's pretty good going (unless those three were the the worst of the original 15?).

You only need to start again if you aren't considering one of the three for the final role.

If you start again, I wouldn't invite 15 in for the first stage. Pick the best 5, line them up and see them. If they aren't any good, invite the next 5 in and so on.

I've done this myself for nearly 10 years. I know it's headache so you don't want to make it more of a headache than it needs to be.
 
The 3 that did turn up were not really fit for purpose, so the need to start again.

It was laid out that it would be a 2 stage interview. I must admit I would be less interested in moving if I had to go through a several stage interview but then again I am happy in my current role. I suppose with 15 I wanted the best chance of finding quality.
 
Two stage interview? Pah! I had 17 interviews for three different jobs that I had applied for. Two is nothing. :p
 
Two stage interviews are pretty standard these days surely? Especially for a management position.

I don't know why anybody would be put off by them.
 
Look on the bright side, if this is how they act regarding an interview they wouldn't have been worthy of the role in the first place.

Shame i wasn't enjoying where I am even if the money is pants as I'd happily apply. I was out of the game for 8 years due to working for an online company but I had 10 years experience before that and loved it.
 
How much competition for candidates is there in the industry and area?

If you look at it from the candidates point of view, they may be applying for several positions and the competing recruiters have moved more quickly and are able to offer a job as a result.

It then comes down to a bird in the hand type situation, I know for my current role I'd had 2 interviews and an offer from my current employer while I waited for the company I was contracting for at the time to get sign off and start the "recruitment process" (I'd been pretty much offered a job as a result of what I did during my short term day rate contract).

I hung on a little while, but eventually I couldn't take the risk of delaying responding to my existing offer while the people I was working with fannied around making verbal promises but nothing formal.
 
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