Oh, btw, two days ago I had the best "Sorry we can't hire you" call I've ever had. I think I've mentioned the outfit that interviewed me by phone two hours after I sent them my resume, who gave me an aptitude test to take while I was dosed with cold medicine. Well, they got back in touch with me on Wednesday, and the woman at their HR started by practically gushing about how impressed everyone there was with me and how much they'd love to have me working there. But... no one had told her until the last couple days that the opening was entry level and they could only pay $35-45K -- and while I had said I was flexible about salary, she didn't expect me to be that flexible. (And she was right.)
So, she went on, she can do two things from here. The first was familiar -- hold on to my resume and application, and get back in touch with me if an position better suited to me opened up -- you know, the usual, except she hinted that such a thing might be happening in the near future.
The other thing she wanted my explicit permission for before doing it -- she informed me that the company was the subsidiary of a bigger holding company, which had under its umbrella thirty or so other companies of similar types but different focuses. And apparently all their HR people meet on a regular basis and trade leads and candidates. She offered to "sell me" to her counterparts in the other subsidiaries. She also gave me the name of the parent company, told me to go its website and from there to the websites of the other child companies, and if there were a firm or job I was interested in, to call her and she would pitch me to the appropriate HR person.
Naturally, I gave my permission.
Anyway, she ended the call by again apologizing that they couldn't hire me, and emphasizing that I should call her if I saw anything I wanted in the other companies.
Which I think was incredibly classy on her part, not to mention more than a little ego-boosting at a time when I really need it.
I've given the website a quick look, but I'm too busy prepping for this afternoon's interview to do much more than look. Tonight or this weekend I'll troll through all the companies, though, and see what they have to offer.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
So, she went on, she can do two things from here. The first was familiar -- hold on to my resume and application, and get back in touch with me if an position better suited to me opened up -- you know, the usual, except she hinted that such a thing might be happening in the near future.
The other thing she wanted my explicit permission for before doing it -- she informed me that the company was the subsidiary of a bigger holding company, which had under its umbrella thirty or so other companies of similar types but different focuses. And apparently all their HR people meet on a regular basis and trade leads and candidates. She offered to "sell me" to her counterparts in the other subsidiaries. She also gave me the name of the parent company, told me to go its website and from there to the websites of the other child companies, and if there were a firm or job I was interested in, to call her and she would pitch me to the appropriate HR person.
Naturally, I gave my permission.
Anyway, she ended the call by again apologizing that they couldn't hire me, and emphasizing that I should call her if I saw anything I wanted in the other companies.
Which I think was incredibly classy on her part, not to mention more than a little ego-boosting at a time when I really need it.
I've given the website a quick look, but I'm too busy prepping for this afternoon's interview to do much more than look. Tonight or this weekend I'll troll through all the companies, though, and see what they have to offer.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.