One more jobhunt tale before we go home.

Okay, so in this story there are 3 players: yours truly, the hi-tech placement agency (let's call them WorkData), and a large employer in the north of the country (let's call them Slippy). So these WorkData people they are very professional, doing their job, and sending my CV to every firm that can possibly hire me. One of the firms is Slippy. Slippy invites me for an interview, I take the train north, go through the normal procedure (questions, riddles, code writing, the works) and leave with a good impression. And rightfully so, because I am invited for a second interview. This time things go really rough. I feel like the interviewer and I are speaking in different languages. I don't quite get what he wants, he is not impressed by my skills, and the interview ends quite miserably. Mentally I swear I am not going back there, and indeed after a few days I get one of these standard "unfortunately, you were not selected for this position" letters. Fine with me, I forget about that place. But not WorkData. They were not updated, and think that I'm still an applicant at Slippy's. As I am approaching the finish line with other workplaces, WorkData call Slippy and say something along the lines of "Danny is about to close the deal, would you like to hurry up and give him an offer?". Guess what Slippy HR answers...( Read more... )