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What should I take from this tele interview feedback..?

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    #21
    Originally posted by Darren_Test View Post
    As I said this one was 100% matching role and my last role was with their end client's number one competitor!
    So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #22
      Senior means Senior

      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
      So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
      I remember one of the biggest consultancies on a telephone interview. The first thing they asked was "How old are you?"

      "We can't have old people managing this team."

      The interview lasted about fifty seconds.
      "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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        #23
        Originally posted by WTFH View Post
        So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
        Who may have just slotted in one of their own.

        This happens all the time.

        OP just move on, you seem to hovering around like a bird of prey above a rotting corpse
        The Chunt of Chunts.

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          #24
          Originally posted by Cirrus View Post
          I remember one of the biggest consultancies on a telephone interview. The first thing they asked was "How old are you?"

          "We can't have old people managing this team."

          The interview lasted about fifty seconds.
          That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.

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            #25
            Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
            That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.
            You need to be able to prove it.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #26
              Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View Post
              Who may have just slotted in one of their own.

              This happens all the time.
              ^^^ This

              The only time contractors are used is when the consultancy can't find the right skills at all and will lose the contract if they don't find someone.

              If they have someone with half the skills who can be "developed" in that role and is acceptable to the client you don't get a look in.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #27
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                ^^^ This

                The only time contractors are used is when the consultancy can't find the right skills at all and will lose the contract if they don't find someone.

                If they have someone with half the skills who can be "developed" in that role and is acceptable to the client you don't get a look in.
                Spot on.

                Funny....

                Have helped with plenty of that development
                The Chunt of Chunts.

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                  So it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
                  They are there every where these days..

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by Darren_Test View Post
                    They are there every where these days..
                    Yep and your job is to have some niche skills they need.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
                      That's blatant ageism. You can sue them.
                      I'd take blatant ageism any day over the disguised version. Taking a day out, spending on train tickets, getting up in the very early hours to drive to Doncaster to catch the first train to Edinburgh to go for a f2f after a successful, long telephone interview only for everything to go magically silent - forever. Just one example.

                      No blatant is a lot cheaper.
                      "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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