It’s a red flag when the recruiter has to reschedule your interview

The recruiter emailed me today to tell me that my scheduled interview tomorrow has to be rescheduled to next week. It’s nearly midnight and the recruiter never emailed me again to actually reschedule the interview.

This. This is just one of many reasons why I dislike recruiters.

It’s SO obvious that the hiring manager canceled my interview otherwise, the recruiter would have just emailed me one email to tell me, “we had to reschedule your interview for next week at such and such a time.”

The disrespect from the recruiter to email me, asking me how my weekend was, then launching into the spiel about how my interview for tomorrow was rescheduled for next week, without ever actually rescheduling my interview.

Just cancel my interview. It’s much more respectful to me as a job candidate to hear from the recruiter, an automated rejection email. To string me along with a fake “we’ll reschedule your interview” email without any follow-up email proving that my interview is rescheduled, is just an insult to injury.

Rescheduling would be fine if they either reschedule or tell you when they’ll contact you to reschedule. Otherwise it’s too vague. Like you said red flag. Cancelled interview also would be fine as long as that’s what you were told. What’s up with secrecy.

Could you contact them and ask when they reschedule it for. If they give you bogus reply, then you’ll know not to deal with them.

I don’t recall if you tried that before but could you start applying places directly and screw these agencies. You mentioned gaps in employment but you could explain it by taking care of elderly relative and going to school. In fact taking leaves to take care of parents isn’t uncommon.

I know some people have a good experience with recruiting agencies but many don’t. It’s frustrating because it’s like you have no power. You are at mercy of these people and they don’t seem to care

@divine1966 unfortunately, there is no way around recruiters these days. Hiring managers use recruiters to do “qualifying interviews” with all of the job applicants. This recruiter was not from a temp agency either, but directly from the company that I applied to through the company’s own website.

I did email the recruiter to ask her for more information. Again, she deflected with “the hiring manager needs to get back to me” when I asked her if my interview was cancelled or rescheduled.

So, I’m taking that as the recruiter’s indirect version of the rejection email sent out to job applicants who are no longer considered for the role they applied for. I’m moving on.

I directly apply to companies through their website or through job websites. I’m up against other job applicants, in addition to recruiters’ random, subjective selection process.

Take for instance I job I was contacted by a recruiter for through one of those job websites where I had already applied online to the job. We did the qualifying interview over the phone and she said the next process was for me to do the following, i.e. jump through more hoops, re-apply through the company website for the same job, and wait for the next tier recruiter above her, to reach out to me, in their hiring process. If he likes me, then he passes me on to the hiring manager. If the hiring manager likes me, then I guess i’d be offered the job? I have no idea.

I’m also going to an on-site second interview for a customer service job that I absolutely don’t want but will take if it’s offered.

You’re correct too about job applicants having no power at all with the job application process. We’re at the mercy of outdated, redundant hiring systems, forced to jump through ridiculous hoops, and put up with recruiters’ erroneous hiring decisions.