If you really need a job, can you actually afford saying ‘no’ to an opportunity that comes your way?
We always hear people talk about the job market in a way that makes you feel like there are zero open positions out there for people. We keep getting told to hold on to our jobs, no matter how bad they might be, just to get that monthly salary and be able to get by.
This also seems to imply that if you are looking for a new job, you should jump on every ‘yes’ you’re told, even if you don’t think it’s the best option for you, because who knows when the next yes will come along?
That’s much easier said than done, because a job candidate can detect many red flags in a workplace even during the job interview, and no one wants to start a new job already knowing that they are going to hate it. Sure, it might be your only ‘yes’ in a whole, but what’s the point of a new job if you’re just going to want to quit the moment you get there?
Those are basically the reasons why the job candidate below decided to refuse to keep interviewing at a certain workplace. For the moment, they got to the office for the interview, they could tell that something about it was off, and that suspicion only got confirmed when the interview started. An interview that consisted of the boss reading the job candidate’s resume in complete silence, refusing to talk to the candidate or ask them any questions. The boss then proceeded to tell the candidate they would be in touch, and that was it. The candidate did not utter a single word during this “interview”.
When the workplace called to tell the job candidate that they want to move to the second interview stage, the candidate said, “Thanks, but no thanks.” They knew this place was bad news, and they preferred staying on the job market for a while longer than risk starting a job for a boss they’ll probabaly wouldn’t be able to stand…
Author: Kayitsi.com
