This has happened twice now… what the hell? I will get a call from the HR person, leaving me contact information and asking me to call them back, but when I do call them back I get a voicemail… and then nothing. No call backs, no emails to say that they have gone with interviewing other people, just a black-hole of voicemails now to match the black-hole of emails on Craigslist.
The last time I went into the voicemail black-hole, it was The Dollar Tree distribution center and when I called back a few days later just to get an answer about what was going on… the receptionist told that it is their hiring practice that if they call you and you don’t answer they move on to the next candidate and close out your file. Whoa. Why? What is you work, or are at the dentist when they call? You are seriously passed over because you didn’t answer your cell phone? And what about people who don’t have cell phones? Unheard of I know, but I know two people who don’t have cell phones because they can’t afford them… what are they supposed to do?
It is enough to make me question, are we “the job hunters” considered disposable to companies? And if we are, which I suspect we are, then how are ever going to get hired?
Follow-up as of March 30th:
I called Joan Stevens three times for a part-time Receptionist position but I never heard back. Perhaps I should have been more aggressive on my voicemail, or left more than one voicemail to show her how serious I was about the position. I really do feel like companies don’t care about people anymore, they just see you are a piece of trash to be discarded of if you don’t meet their impossible standards of answering the phone on the first ring.
The Permanent Job Hunter 