Doing an interview, unless you're utterly delusional, you know how it went. You know how you performed, how you responded to questions, what you missed out on putting forward, how you could have improved answers etc.
Client feedback is just something given to justify a decision / fob people off. If through an agency, probably made up.
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Previously on "What should I take from this tele interview feedback..?"
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostNow it becomes clearer. They wanted information. So a fake interview?
I had 30 mins to prepare, pulled together a decent presentation, which the client loved and then...didn't get the role. Felt a bit annoyed that I had given my secrets away only to then told 'thanks but no thanks'.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostNow it becomes clearer. They wanted information. So a fake interview?
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Originally posted by Andy2 View PostThat's blatant ageism. You can sue them.
No blatant is a lot cheaper.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
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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.
Funny....
Have helped with plenty of that development
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostWho may have just slotted in one of their own.
This happens all the time.
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.
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Originally posted by Cirrus View PostI 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.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
This happens all the time.
OP just move on, you seem to hovering around like a bird of prey above a rotting corpse
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Senior means Senior
Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo it wasn't an interview with an end client but with a bodyshop/consultancy
"We can't have old people managing this team."
The interview lasted about fifty seconds.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostI see a couple of situations here.
1) OP is blindly firing his CV off to every man and his dog as we discovered in the other thread. He's got lucky and these guys have decided to interview. He doesn't match the role and they've realized this in the interview so they've politely said no thanks. The OP has made no mention whether he was a perfect match for the gig. We don't even know what the gig was.
2) He's just crap and they are giving the most polite feedback they can. We go on about agents inability to tell the truth yet for some reason we are hanging on to every word he says all of a sudden. Could be a lie, could be gentle feedback to let him down, could be the truth and he is too senior.
Bottom line is OP is using scatter gun approach so he's going to get all sorts of crap feedback and it's going not going to change what he is doing one iota anyway so just take it you didn't get the gig and go back to the other 300 applications he's got going on.
I'm starting to suspect this poster is a sockie. All this can't be coming from a professional contractor.
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