(NB: No coffee was harmed in the making of this blog)

So, another day, another post interview job rejection. [sarcasm]Yay![/sarcasm] I think the problem is HR people and general management types who are trying to justify their existence by getting my hopes up.

It works like this, say there are 5 positions to be filled. If those doing the hiring only called in 5 people for interviews and hired them all, their jobs would be under threat, as it could be percieved that they aren’t doing anything – and the whole interviewing process could be skipped.

So, what they do is call in 20 people for a group interview, whittle it down to 10 people to do a one-on-one interview, and then hire 5 people. Now if these HR people are even semi competent, then from reading the resumes they already have a pretty good idea who they’ll hire…. and that means that I’m just filler – someone being interviewed to make up the numbers. I’m just the beans that get filtered so that the coffee filter has reason to exist…. even when you could just eat the coffee beans…. and now, a quote to end.

“Not so fast. I like to savour the moment before I crush your misplaced optimism.” – Catbert (The Evil Director of Human Resources) (NB: No one has ever accused me of misplaced optimism – just the opposite, I just wanted to quote catbert, and this was the best I could find on the interweb)