Interview for job that's already gone

More things to add to the list of law changes

Candidates must be allowed for up to six months to inspect all application forms and papers associated with a job vacancy.

All job vacancies must be advertised

Candidates must be allowed to have a "friend" appointed to the panel of interviewers.

The laws of procedure as that which apply in court room for obtaining evidence from a witness must be extended to the interview. That is the asking of leading questions must be made illegal.

"Lotteries" for jobs should be forbidden.

An aggrieved candidate who wins an appeal must be entitled to up to 1 year's salary compensation the job applied for would have paid.

Seems like to me the whole job application and interviewing process especially if the job has been advertised publicly has got to be up front and honest. The laws need changing.

A complete list of candidates/applicants should be published
A complete list of those shortlisted should be published
The winner's name should be published
Written reasons for Rejections of any candidate or application should be given.
Interview expenses should be paid. Postage should be free. Envelopes provided free where required.
Companies should use standardised application forms.
Companies must hire disinterested third party outsider to attend the interview.
Online application forms should be standarised and not require/use proprietary software, like Word for Windows, to complete them.
The receipt of all applications should be acknowledged.
Procedure for appeal should be published.
The names/addresses of those interviewing should be published.
The interview should contain no Equal Opportunities questions
The list of questions to be asked in the interview should be published in advance.
Interviews which "test the candidate's knowledge" should be banned.

I was recently part of a panel of interviewers and we were interviewing for two positions. We spent an entire day doing this and at the end of the day had a meeting with our boss. The first thing she said was to ask if we'd offered the job to a specific applicant yet. Turns out it was her sister-in-law and she'd prearranged to give her the higher paying job, without notifying myself or one other panel member. The other two were in on it. We chose someone for the other job, who was certainly better suited to the higher paying job. I was mad because I'd wasted my day seriously interviewing people when it had predetermined anyway. I felt like a puppet for her old girls club.

I've been in the same situation as you plenty of times jane. However, when I know something and decide to tell them I'm aware of the job going to a best mate already working there and they ask why I would believe such a thing, I relay that my father works for the company, as a manager above you and has been informed by others about a biased interview. *new trouser time*

This being said because my father really is a lvl 3 manager and is part of the management that runs the area I applied for.

Unless you have

a) Competed in at least three paraplegic Olympic games.

b) Own 5 lesbian cats.

c) Speak Welsh with a pure accent from Ceredigion.

d) Know the Equal Opportunities Acts inside out; have three cousins on the Equal Opportunities Commission.

e) Or are newly arrived from the new commonwealth on a banana boat.

f) Fourteen undeclared relatives on the Council.

g) or can add up in Jamaican: one, two ... many

No man you are not goin' to get shartliistted at all far dis jab.

It's their Loss Jane, Keep your chin up something will crop up, you just got to persevere

That's a real shame, Jane. But don't despair there will be a job out there, and better to not start than to have a shocking "moment of realisation" when you do!
To be honest, during interviewws I make very basic notes, and generally on the candiates CV. I try not too but sometimes I need to remind myself on questions to ask rather than interupt.

However, I know what you mean about applying for jobs that have already gone, I work in IT and a couple of years back there seemed to be an abundance of jobs, however I soon found out that these were "fishing trips", basically the agency put a really interesting and lucrative job on the web to entice you to apply, and then when you applied and then contacted them they told you that that position had just been filled and thatthey would add you to their database!