Did It Make You Question the Quality of the Company You Interviewed With?
By Mitchell Slepian
A few weeks ago, I received an email asking me to set up an interview with an organization I was interested in working for. The interview would be with its chief of staff. She was the sender of the email. I read it carefully and noticed that she wanted to interview for a role I did not apply for. I had done none of the work this role required. I searched the website. Sure enough, that role and what I wanted to do were on the job board.
About an hour later, she sent me a note apologizing for typing in the wrong role and said we would talk about the position I applied for. We figured out a time to talk.
I wound up doing the interview two days earlier than planned. Out of the blue, she emailed to ask if I could hop on Zoom. I did. It was supposed to be 15 minutes. We stayed on for around 30. I sent the thank-you note and included some things I could bring to the table if hired.
The next morning, I got the rejection letter. I was upset. The job was basically a carbon copy of many roles I had. There wasn’t one thing they asked that I haven’t done, and I have the portfolio to prove it. Then I read the note again. She input the lead sentence twice. The note had punctuation marks randomly added. There were a few typos and poor verb usage. I am still upset I was rejected. I want to work there. But it makes me wonder if the chief of staff cannot properly proofread what was more or less a three-sentence note, what does that tell me about the organization?
Have you experienced notes along the lines of this one?
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