Employee gets laid off after 10 years, so he starts applying to thousands of jobs, even finishing the interview process in one with flying colors: ‘But then I got the email today that they decided to go in a different direction.’ – FAIL Blog

Going through an extensive interview process just to get rejected after all. That sounds like poor planning on the company’s recruitment team’s part. 

Interviews can be awful and stressful, but the complete interview process, well, that’s just lunacy. You’re going to 3 or 4 rounds of interviews with different recruiters that expect different things from you. You take tests, start to study your future job, spend weeks, all just to discover they end up hiring someone internally. How is that possible? Does the recruitment team just like to torture unemployed people seeking a stable job? Is the company trying to justify the salary of the recruiters? Are they just pretending they are hiring so the company seems to be growing? I just think it proves that these people don’t care at all about their candidates or future employees. 

Everything was easier before, without job-looking platforms and elevated tests. Before, you just went directly to the company to leave your resume, or just checked which companies were hiring from the newspaper. One interview or even none, and they call you to tell you that you got the job or not, easy peasy. When I read stories like this one with people being so frustrated about the job market, I think that maybe the industry is wrong. There is some big change we need to be doing, going a little bit back to the basics. Not forcing unemployed people onto a several-week trial. 

Maybe there is a reason for things to work like this, but, from my perspective, this doesn’t seem fair. It seems like a manipulative scheme that makes you believe that you got a job when you didn’t. Is unfair, and it dehumanizes the candidates who are putting so much effort just to get a chance to get a job position.