I would like to ask whether it is not obvious that you know what will be the conditions in your contract when you go to a job interview. Maybe not the tiniest details, but for instance if it is a short-term contract, or how much travel is involved, or the salary range.
A friend of mine went to an interview and he came back very confused. He asked about how much travel would be involved in the position and the upper manager and the HR director answered at the same time. The first saying 10%, the other one saying 50%. Furthermore, it was not clear how the travel costs and time would be considered from the economic point of view: paid overhours, reimbursement of travel expenses, company credit card?
He then asked for visioning a draft of a contract, without numbers, just to see possible benefits or insurance coverages. But they did not have any available to show him, as they normally share these information only after an agreement has been reached. Agreement on what, he thought, if I do not know what am I discussing about and whether I am happy with the offered conditions or not?
His opinion was then that they did not prepare for the interview. Which is kind of silly, because you make a bad impression of the applicant, who might just because of that decide to take another job, if possible. And it is also kind of arrogant, because companies usually pretend the candidates to be perfectly aware of the company business and products, while they do not seem to care about preparing what they might want to offer him.
I was a bit surprised by such behavior. I thought that also for a company it is a very important matter to get the right and good people to work for them, convincing them it would be great, well-organized, motivating to work at their company. But apparently, they think they might find many people who suit their needs - aha. That is one of the results of the economic crisis, I suppose.
Or maybe, the company people just like to poker. They offer you as few as possible, they tell you even less, and then they see if they can get you cheap. Then it is up to you, to risk to lose the job because you are in their eyes too demanding, or if you get the job and you are also paid for it what is the expected value.
A friend of mine went to an interview and he came back very confused. He asked about how much travel would be involved in the position and the upper manager and the HR director answered at the same time. The first saying 10%, the other one saying 50%. Furthermore, it was not clear how the travel costs and time would be considered from the economic point of view: paid overhours, reimbursement of travel expenses, company credit card?
He then asked for visioning a draft of a contract, without numbers, just to see possible benefits or insurance coverages. But they did not have any available to show him, as they normally share these information only after an agreement has been reached. Agreement on what, he thought, if I do not know what am I discussing about and whether I am happy with the offered conditions or not?
His opinion was then that they did not prepare for the interview. Which is kind of silly, because you make a bad impression of the applicant, who might just because of that decide to take another job, if possible. And it is also kind of arrogant, because companies usually pretend the candidates to be perfectly aware of the company business and products, while they do not seem to care about preparing what they might want to offer him.
I was a bit surprised by such behavior. I thought that also for a company it is a very important matter to get the right and good people to work for them, convincing them it would be great, well-organized, motivating to work at their company. But apparently, they think they might find many people who suit their needs - aha. That is one of the results of the economic crisis, I suppose.
Or maybe, the company people just like to poker. They offer you as few as possible, they tell you even less, and then they see if they can get you cheap. Then it is up to you, to risk to lose the job because you are in their eyes too demanding, or if you get the job and you are also paid for it what is the expected value.
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