4 agencies, 7 stages.....no chance.

[nomadd]

had 4 agencies on the phone now for the same job within 24 hours.

The first one had me interested even though it was a permie job the pay and benefits were turning my head until they said it was a 7 stage interview process.

7 STAGES....fook that! I'm 3 weeks away from a renewal so absolutly no chance of getting this all done in 2 weeks even if I wanted to put myself through that torture.

7 stages! just imagine what their annual appraisal process is like.

Yep, walked away at "stage 4" for a decent banking role (contract) about 10 years ago. When asked why, I simply replied: "I went for a 1st interview with another Bank this morning, and they offered me the role 1 hour later". Which was true.

Also did the 7 interviews in a day lark once. Again, contract and Banking. To my dying day I will regret not having walked after the 2nd interview, as I hated them.

Still, you live, you learn.

[The Agents View]

Contractors in "I don't want anyone to spend any decent amount of time with me, incase they find out I'm not worth X00's per day" shocker.....

[Scary]

What are the 7 stages?

Does chat with a technical person for 30 mins then chat with a business side person for 30 mins count as 2 stages?

I can't understand how it's possible to need more than:

1. Phone interview
2. Interview + technical test
3. Negotiations for pay and conditions

[Scrag Meister]

My last 2 banking contracts have both run exactly the same at interview.

1. 20-30 min telephone interview with team manager, personality, business, low level tech.
2. 3x 45 min interviews back to back, team manager again (role and business), tech team lead (code, approach, etc..), misc other for personality fit. (and didn't offer me any water, was dry near the end of part 2)

Don't think I could face much more than that, for a contract or a perm role.

[HairyArsedBloke]

What are the 7 stages?

I was wondering that.

I am so glad I don't have to go through all this anymore.

In these days of lean this and agile that, what is the point of long drawn out recruitment procedures like this.

Is it any wonder that so few manage to get through the whole process and that firms discover that they cannot find people, or is that the point.

[BlasterBates]

Contractors in "I don't want anyone to spend any decent amount of time with me, incase they find out I'm not worth X00's per day" shocker.....

How can you take enought time out of work to get a job?

Normally an interview is a day off work, and the pre stages often involve spending several hours.

Are we now expected to spend a month a year looking for a job?

Any decent candidates won't apply because basically they can pick up a decent £500 a day contract from one interview, that means they'll be inviting the dross in to go through a long and time wasting exercise.

[northernladuk]

What are the 7 stages?

Does chat with a technical person for 30 mins then chat with a business side person for 30 mins count as 2 stages?

I can't understand how it's possible to need more than:

1. Phone interview
2. Interview + technical test
3. Negotiations for pay and conditions

In the graduate ones we did...

Initial face to face
Competency based interview via activities
Techinical test
Meet and greet senior stakeholders

There are also other things such as a presentation. Interview with senior management, interview with tech teams or similar, meets and greets for team fit with various teams if you didn't do the previous two interviews, more assesment days and so on.

[ettubrute]

Techinical test

What's that?

[nfoote]

In the graduate ones we did...

Initial face to face
Competency based interview via activities
Techinical test
Meet and greet senior stakeholders

Techinical test. What's that?

Indeed, for grads, they've just done 3-4 years of technical tests, is there much point in more? I'd have thought more emphasis on competnecy, team fit and depending on the role presentation or logical tests or the like.

Think for my GlobalCo grad intake we had;
1 - Phone interview from 3rd party recruitment advisors
2 - Assessment half day including team based exercises (observed), 30min interview with HR lady, 30min interview with technical manager .. suppose that might count as 3 steps?
3 - hour and a bit interview with a PM about what I can't remember

[nfoote]

Contractors in "I don't want anyone to spend any decent amount of time with me, incase they find out I'm not worth X00's per day" shocker.....

Similar to another thread I started about when does your CV start to speak for yourself I think it might be more of a case, particularly with contractors, of complete exasperation that desipte an outstanding employment history and contract fulfillment record as detailed by a CV and backed up by a few quick phone calls to provided references that clients still think there's a need for hoop jumping to make sure we can do the jobs we've just said we've been doing for the past 10, 20, 30 years?!?