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The weekend before\u00a0I start a new job seems like an ideal time to comment on my experience of searching for the right role over the last several\u00a0months. \u00a0It’s been a long time since I had to seriously look for work – all of my interviews since late-2003 have been internal, or with organisations where I already had a working relationship – and boy has the world changed!<\/p>\n

In many cases, writing a covering letter and attaching your CV seems to have gone out in favour of automated recruitment systems. Recruitment consultants can help get you in the door (the good ones can, anyway) but\u00a0many organisations only work with certain agencies – so you need to build the right contacts. And LinkedIn is all over the place…<\/p>\n

But it’s not all bad – the interview experience\u00a0should be two way – for the candidate to gauge the\u00a0potential employer as well as the other way around. That’s why\u00a0I’m going to write here about two roles I applied for. In both cases I was unsuccessful – for different reasons – and both left me with negative feelings (about the organisation, or about the process). Written at another time it might have sounded like sour grapes; today I hope it won’t!<\/p>\n

Organisation A<\/h3>\n

A friend who works for a large financial services company commented that\u00a0he’d seen some Solution Architect roles advertised on their job site. Sure enough, there was one which looked a good fit on paper – and it\u00a0sounded extremely interesting. He referred me internally and I navigated the company’s Oracle Taleo-based job site\u00a0to apply for the post.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, I was invited to\u00a0a telephone interview to “describe the role in some more detail and get a better understanding of my experience”. With just a 30 minute telephone interview (and having done my homework on\u00a0the company’s interview process), I was expecting a fairly high-level discussion\u00a0with subsequent\u00a0interviews going into more detail.<\/p>\n

What I got was a technical grilling, without any context about what the role entailed, and when I\u00a0tried to ask questions at the end of the interview (to understand more about the role), it was clear that the interviewer was out of time and overdue for their next appointment.<\/p>\n

It was probably the worst interview of my career – I hadn’t performed well, partly because the\u00a0questioning was not what I expected in a first-stage telephone interview; but also bad\u00a0because the interviewer was\u00a0pretty poor at managing the time, representing the company in a good light and allowing the candidate to\u00a0discover more about the role.<\/p>\n

My last contact with the resourcing\u00a0team was over seven months ago, when they promised that they “would let me know as soon as they have feedback”. That feedback has never come, despite internal chasing and we’re now way past the time when it would have any value (the interviewer won’t remember anything useful at this late stage). \u00a0What it has done\u00a0though is set me a poor impression of this particular financial services company – and that impression is one I’m likely to share with others in my professional network. No-one wins in this scenario.<\/p>\n

I’ve logged in to the recruitment website this evening\u00a0and my application is still there… showing as “Submission Status: Interview Process” with the last update dated\u00a0the day before my interview. Meanwhile the position remains open for applications.<\/p>\n

Organisation B<\/h3>\n

The second job application was with a major national infrastructure organisation. I do admit I allowed myself to get very excited (and then very disappointed) about this one but imagine my joy when I found out that the only person I know in that particular company worked in the department that was hiring.\u00a0We met up and they told me more about the role, I made sure that my application was the strongest it could be\u00a0–\u00a0and then it failed at the first stage.<\/p>\n

Even though I’d\u00a0made sure that the team recruiting for the role knew my application was on its way, analysis of the communication I received from the HR department leads me to\u00a0believe it failed a keyword search from the automated screening systems. That might sound like a candidate who thinks they are perfect\u00a0and\u00a0I’ve seen enough CVs pass over my desk to know that first-round screening can be\u00a0hit and miss; however, using your network to make sure that the application is expected ought to help a little. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be the case for me. I’ve since learned that one commonly-used trick is to paste the entire job spec into the end of your application, in white text, and a tiny font.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0piece of LinkedIn\u00a0advice<\/h3>\n

One piece of advice I received from a recruiter,\u00a0which\u00a0seems to have been very worthwhile, is to turn on InMail in LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0(it’s under Privacy and Settings, Manage, Communications, Member Communications,\u00a0Select the types of messages you’re willing to receive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since I enabled InMail,\u00a0the volume of contact I’ve received has hugely increased. There’s a lot of noise but some of it is worthwhile (especially now recruiters are having to target more carefully<\/a>) and it may just bring you a\u00a0contact\u00a0that leads to\u00a0a great new opportunity.<\/p>\n

And finally<\/h3>\n

The good news for me is that I have a new role – one I’m really looking forward\u00a0to\u00a0starting on Monday. I applied directly via the company website and the interview process has been enjoyable, just as\u00a0when I was growing my team at Fujitsu and I\u00a0recruited people who I genuinely enjoyed meeting\u00a0and talking with about how they would fit in\u00a0and what we could do to help them achieve their goals.<\/p>\n

Now I have a six-month probationary period to navigate but logic tells me all should be well. \u00a0The difference with the company I’m joining on Monday is that they were as keen to make sure they would fit me as that I would them. Good recruitment works for all parties – it’s the human<\/em> part of “human resources” that needs\u00a0the emphasis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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