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Originally Posted by Misery Business
I don't have experience in these thing because I am a 16 year old kid, but maybe that is just the way the recruiter handles the interview. It may not seem professional but it is there way about it. From what you posted here it seemed to me you nailed the interview especially given the fact that the interviewer didn't give you much help at all. I wish you all the luck in the world.
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Thank you for support regardless of your young age, Misery Business. I hope you can find a summer job that you will enjoy. My brother used to work at the movie theater in high school; that meant we always got to go to free movies. So, there's definite perks to working at a movie theater. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by seesaw
Do you know she didn't advance you to the next round or are you just assuming right now?
As a hiring manager, phone interviews are to weed people out. They are generally to make sure a few certain skills are confirmed before we even bother bringing them in.
It sounds like content wise you had all the right responses ready to go. My only suggestion would be no joking in the future. The HR recruiter is going through a number of phone screenings in a day and just needs to get certain questions answered. You also can't see the other person when it's a phone interview so you can't read body language and tell if joking is appropriate.
My suggestion would to be professional, polite, cordial, and keep all aspects of personality (humor, sarcasm, whatever, not saying you were sarcastic or anything, just an example) at bay. Be beige. Lol.
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No, but her tone led me to the assumption that she was not happy with my attempt at making a joke. Be beige. Lol. I wish someone had told me to do that. I was very rainbow-esque today on the phone. Not beige at all! Whoops!
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Originally Posted by unaluna
Ive been told by bosses that i wasnt professional enough. After being a team leader myself, i can tell you, the last thing i wanted to do was respond to a report's jokes.
So maybe they were interviewing for a very professional person who wouldnt joke around. Not really a people person. If youre more of a people person, face it, we wouldnt be happy in those kinds of jobs. Not that we couldnt force ourselves to do them, but its really no good trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. It only gets us into more trouble.
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I think you may be on to something unaluna. The job is 90% managing calendars for five execs who travel most of the time and so they will rarely be in the office. Not exactly a great job for a people-person like myself, who needs face to face contact in a work setting to feel stimulated, happy, fulfilled and valued. This is more of an "automaton" admin role, where the majority of communication is via an instant messaging system and not face to face.
I'm definitely a square peg and this job is a round hole. Probably not a good fit for me in the long run, because despite the awesome salary I know I'd be miserable there.
When I asked the recruiter what this company does to support the local community she said she wasn't sure. And when I asked her about the work culture, she said it was very much a whiskey Fridays boys club. Um, definitely not an environment for a gal like myself.
The global company that owns this smaller company is where I want to work but they don't have any direct hire jobs located in my city. They buy smaller companies and run them as a global management consulting company. Their work culture is 1000x better and they have offices in every country practically.
I think I will go back on their website and see if they have any other kinds of jobs that would be more suitable for a square peg like myself. Clearly, this admin. role would not be a good fit. My first phone interview in many years . Now I know: be beige. Not rainbow.