The Weekly Gripe

Making the numbers up at interviews, job already gone internally

Interview for job that's already gone

Job gone to internal candidate

The phone call always comes at bang on 4pm. I reckon they always ring up the unsuccessful candidates first to get them out of the way. 'Your interview went extremely well....but...'



My main gripe is knowing, soon after you have sat down to be interviewed, that the job you have yearned for for so long is probably going to an internal candidate and there's nothing you can do about it.

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