Turned down for interview as they think you will get bored!!

LadyMissA

Googlewhacker wrote: »

there is, you need to put a postitive spin on it, such as.

I stayed at my current job for the last 5 years until unfortunately redundancy came but this shows one of my good qualities in that once employed I am loyal to a company....

or words to those effect.

pretty much is what I say

Blackpool_Saver

LadyMissA wrote: »

So I sent my comprehensive CV - it dont matter now as they wont see me.

?? and filler text to suit the system

InsideInsurance

There are two elements at play potentially....

First is the issue of short term tenure as others have already mentioned, one estimate by a multi national HR director was the cost of someone leaving the business was between 90% and 170% of their fully loaded salary (ie including employer NI, pension, benefits etc) so potentially if your paying someone £20,000 and they leave the business it costs between £27,000 and £51,000.

The second issue, which is linked but is more formulaic, some companies use a "recruit for attitude" where they reduce recruitment to a very basic system of scoring and each role they create a scoring grid, guidelines of what is a good and bad person for that role and then simply mark your CV and subsequently your interview against that grid. If you get above the pass mark your in, if your below it your not

Blackpool_Saver

Googlewhacker wrote: »

or words to those effect.

*that*

I don't know how any of you secure employment

Blackpool_Saver

InsideInsurance wrote: »

If you get above the pass mark your in, if your below it your not

What the heck?

Gingernutty

Even if you had got to the interview stage, there are many varied, weak and feeble excuses why they didn't pick you.....

I once went for an interview at an industrial/business park in the next county. Even though I hadn't worked in that field before, I impressed them with my research (asbestos analysis) and seemed to be happy with my answers. I got a grand tour of the lab and was introduced to the office staff.

When I got the rejection 'phone call from the agency, I was told I was turned down because I couldn't drive. They had a lad work there before who was dependent on the buses and was always late because the bus service was unreliable.

At no point in the interview was the lack of a car mentioned as a drawback and the ability to drive wasn't listed as one of the essential criteria for the post.

If I were you OP, I'd consider myself lucky - at least you didn't succeed and you're not working for the condescending muppets........

LadyMissA

InsideInsurance wrote: »

There are two elements at play potentially....

First is the issue of short term tenure as others have already mentioned, one estimate by a multi national HR director was the cost of someone leaving the business was between 90% and 170% of their fully loaded salary (ie including employer NI, pension, benefits etc) so potentially if your paying someone £20,000 and they leave the business it costs between £27,000 and £51,000.

The second issue, which is linked but is more formulaic, some companies use a "recruit for attitude" where they reduce recruitment to a very basic system of scoring and each role they create a scoring grid, guidelines of what is a good and bad person for that role and then simply mark your CV and subsequently your interview against that grid. If you get above the pass mark your in, if your below it your not

no if you are paying someone £20k and they leave all it costs is the price of an advert and a few hours to read cv's or a 20% fee to an agency which would be £4k.

How do you get £27k-£51k???

No wonder on that rate why my old company weren't doing so well if everyone that left cost them 27-51k. In the time I was there we had 13 people come and go in accounts so you are saying that cost them £351k!!! LOL

LadyMissA

Gingernutty wrote: »

Even if you had got to the interview stage, there are many varied, weak and feeble excuses why they didn't pick you.....

I once went for an interview at an industrial/business park in the next county. Even though I hadn't worked in that field before, I impressed them with my research (asbestos analysis) and seemed to be happy with my answers. I got a grand tour of the lab and was introduced to the office staff.

When I got the rejection 'phone call from the agency, I was told I was turned down because I couldn't drive. They had a lad work there before who was dependent on the buses and was always late because the bus service was unreliable.

At no point in the interview was the lack of a car mentioned as a drawback and the ability to drive wasn't listed as one of the essential criteria for the post.

If I were you OP, I'd consider myself lucky - at least you didn't succeed and you're not working for the condescending muppets........

I know they can fob you off with anything when you get to the interview as it's happened to me once at Rank Cinema many years ago and at the 2nd interview stage for a job in accounts.

The interview ended very quickly after I was asked where I was working and then I called the agency on the way home to be told the FC didn't know I was out of work and I would have never got to the 2nd interview stage if she had realised before.

LadyMissA

Googlewhacker wrote: »

I'm not quite sure on those costs, maybe those were the first yearly figure? However there are added costs involved such as the recruiters time and money (remember most places do not have a dedicated recruiter).

If one person is there earning £20k to be replaced by another earning £20k all it will cost is the price of recruitment and whatever it would have cost for the same person to stay in regards to employers contributions etc

suicidebob

LadyMissA wrote: »

school leavers get a job in accounts as an accounts junior where they do less work like data entry and matching invoices and get training on the job to do the job where as someone with 20 years experience can do all the tasks in the job spec that I applied for

To be fair, the job description you posted isn't an advanced role - it's basically a sales ledger clerk.

That would bore me, and I have way less than 20 years experience.