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I took the time out of my day to draft an excellent cover letter to you and you asked me via email to come to your clinic for an interview first thing that morning. I received no phone call. When I checked my email later in the morning, I saw that you had sent a one liner “Ok i will interview you. Can you come in today for 8:45?” I explained to you that I was just now getting your email…I asked for another interview time, but you chose to ignore me.
I’m sooo sorry that I’m not a clairvoyant who knew to sit on her thumbs in front of the computer. I didn’t see in my crystal ball that you’d email, demanding I fly over to your end of Halifax on a second’s notice. Or maybe you were annoyed that I accidentally referred to you by your first name, rather than “Doctor So and so”… Well, DOCTOR, people out here are looking for work, we are struggling and we spent hours of our valuable time applying to hundreds jobs like this. Most illicit no response, and when we hear back from someone, we get our hopes up. The very least you could do is let a candidate know you decided to hire someone else. Well lady, you did me a favor as I wouldn’t want to work with someone that demanding, rude, unprofessional and narcissistic anyway. Thanks for wasting my time! —Promoting compassion, communication and collaboration in health care – yeah right.
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2016.
You didn’t meet the expectations of the potential employer and it’s THEIR fault?
Well you must have put your e-mail address in your letter or resume. As most people have their noses in their smartphones or computers, he did what most people would do and e-mailed you. I suppose if you had a phone without voice message or answering machine, you would have blamed him for not continuing to call you until you answered.
No point in crying over spilt milk. Just move on.
And, check you email at the end of the business day, and at the beginning. If you had done so, I’m sure you would have caught this sooner.
Job hunting in this backward one horse town stinks. There is a serious lack of professionalism which seems to be “normal” and accepted here.
Call, don’t rely on email.
There is so much time in preparing a good job application, and we are expected to show professionalism. Why do companies not model the same standard?
It is inexcusable to me that
a) an application is not even acknowledged (how do I even know they got it?)
b) The company does not let you know when a decision will be made to hire (or best guess). Those two can be the same notice.
c) Then they don’t second notice letting you know when a position has been filled, so you can move on.
If it were my company this would be required. Why have the very first contact with a potential employee be negative?