Journal Journal: How the assistant tried to screw it all up....
Hu-rah. I managed to get an interview with a company I'd really like to work for - just getting the first interview, as many know, can be pretty hard, but when it's for a Mac support position, it can be harder in many ways - you can't just know about computers, you need to understand parts of the Mac OS (7, 8, 9 and X) as well as the hardware - which can be very different depending on the model and whatnot. And OS X opened a whole new can of worms from the "Classic" versions - so it can be pretty tough out there.
When I was waiting for the interview, I was talking with the admin assistant for that specific department, talking about the hiring process, and trying to find out what I could about the competitition - standard stuff. I was surprised, as were they, apparently, that they managed to get 36 applications for the position. Of these, only 6 were asked in for an interview. For design positions, that's nothing, but in the field I'm trying to further my career in, that's a lot. I'd done pretty well to get my interview.
After this interview, just over a week went by, and then I received a phone call from the CIO's assistant (different than the first assistant). It would seem that the CIO, who had received a short-list of three names, had wanted me to come in for a meeting with him. That's great, I'm thinking - one step closer to getting the job. Then she dropped the bomb - why hadn't I been there for my 11:00 appointment? I asked her, very politely, what the heck she was talking about. Turns out she had taken the liberty of sending me an email informing of the scheduled time and asking me to call if that was a problem.
Only I never received it. Turns out my spam filter got a hold of it, and there it was, among the 12,000+ spams waiting for me to do various greps to make sure they were spam - once filtered into the junk mail, I do the grep searches for the usual keywords, then manually speed read thru the remaining 100 or so, finding the 2 or 3 that the filters mis-filter. The problem, as you can plainly see, is that I never actually saw the message until AFTER the interview - I found it a few minutes after talking with the assistant and finding out her email address so I could find it specifically.
Since then, I managed to get an interview 2 days later, but it still weighed on me - why the f*ck did she send an email instead of calling? Since I've worked for this company before, I called a friend to find out why this might have happened - turns out it's not the normal practice for this type of call-back. Nor is it normal for anyone else - everytime I've mentioned this to family or friends, they give the same WTF! look.
So now I'm left waiting, checking the junkmail folder in case it slips through again, despite manually adding the domain to the whitelist. If I don't end up getting the job, I'm going to be left wondering if it had anything to do with the missed interview. That would suck ass.
When I was waiting for the interview, I was talking with the admin assistant for that specific department, talking about the hiring process, and trying to find out what I could about the competitition - standard stuff. I was surprised, as were they, apparently, that they managed to get 36 applications for the position. Of these, only 6 were asked in for an interview. For design positions, that's nothing, but in the field I'm trying to further my career in, that's a lot. I'd done pretty well to get my interview.
After this interview, just over a week went by, and then I received a phone call from the CIO's assistant (different than the first assistant). It would seem that the CIO, who had received a short-list of three names, had wanted me to come in for a meeting with him. That's great, I'm thinking - one step closer to getting the job. Then she dropped the bomb - why hadn't I been there for my 11:00 appointment? I asked her, very politely, what the heck she was talking about. Turns out she had taken the liberty of sending me an email informing of the scheduled time and asking me to call if that was a problem.
Only I never received it. Turns out my spam filter got a hold of it, and there it was, among the 12,000+ spams waiting for me to do various greps to make sure they were spam - once filtered into the junk mail, I do the grep searches for the usual keywords, then manually speed read thru the remaining 100 or so, finding the 2 or 3 that the filters mis-filter. The problem, as you can plainly see, is that I never actually saw the message until AFTER the interview - I found it a few minutes after talking with the assistant and finding out her email address so I could find it specifically.
Since then, I managed to get an interview 2 days later, but it still weighed on me - why the f*ck did she send an email instead of calling? Since I've worked for this company before, I called a friend to find out why this might have happened - turns out it's not the normal practice for this type of call-back. Nor is it normal for anyone else - everytime I've mentioned this to family or friends, they give the same WTF! look.
So now I'm left waiting, checking the junkmail folder in case it slips through again, despite manually adding the domain to the whitelist. If I don't end up getting the job, I'm going to be left wondering if it had anything to do with the missed interview. That would suck ass.
