The Top-10 Things Candidates Hate

 

I cannot take credit for this list but I do thank the author and I can assure you that I have heard these complaints many times.

 

10. Having no clue whom they are meeting with or how long they will be at the interview

9. Taking a personal day off on one, two, or three occasions to interview at XYZ Company only to get no feedback.

8. Learning after the fact that someone on the interview team thought that their resume showed too many positions when they actually worked for the same company for 10 years.

7. Navigating a ridiculous, invasive online application that does not save after each field, crashes unexpectedly and is hard to complete thoroughly

6. Walking into an interview with a person more junior than themselves to discover that said person is reading the resume for the first time.

5. Feeling like they really are the right person for the job but somehow can't get an interview.

4. Going through a more thorough interview process than a candidate for the Supreme Court.

3. Enduring a background check that is conducted by hourly workers on a different continent.

2. Enduring a formal interview process, complete with a one-hour phone screen with HR, a call with a junior team member asking basic questions, and then getting the green light to attend a cattle call.

1. The number-one pet peeve of all candidates is talking to misinformed interviewers.