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Unfair Job Interview process
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Hi All this is very urgent has interivews have not yet taken place , I am from UK
I work for a City Council ,
My job was advertise 8 months ago in September 2009 the closing date was October 2009 , in normal job interview process you are told if you have got the job or not within weeks but this City Council continue on until now just last week I was told my application was not successful , which is fine , I can accept this .
but my issue is as its a council job those member of the public who did apply they would have felt automatically that they did not get the job when then could have , because in real life no one is going to wait for 8 months
can i do something about this.
kind regards
Waheed
I work for a City Council ,
My job was advertise 8 months ago in September 2009 the closing date was October 2009 , in normal job interview process you are told if you have got the job or not within weeks but this City Council continue on until now just last week I was told my application was not successful , which is fine , I can accept this .
but my issue is as its a council job those member of the public who did apply they would have felt automatically that they did not get the job when then could have , because in real life no one is going to wait for 8 months
can i do something about this.
kind regards
Waheed
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I thnk you neeed to provide more details Waheed. You say you work for a City council and that interviews have not yet taken place for a job. You then say "MY job was advertised 8 months ago ...etc.
Are you saying tha this was your actual job that you were doing, so that you are re-applyying for your own job? Or did you just mean a job for which you were applying?
I am puzzled sine if it was your own job for which you were applying and did not get it, I would expect you to be more upset, so I am not sure if I understand your full complaint, other than the length of time for them to make up their minds.
Many people would say you are lucky to have had a rejection letter, in many cases firms never tell people that they have failed - you apply and there is silence so you carry on applying for other jobs.
I once had an interview for a job for company A, and after several weeks, then had three interviews spread over several more weeks, spent a day with the department of Company B, was offered the job, handed in my month's notice to my current company, worked it, had a week off between jobs, and had worked a month of the new job, when I got a second interview offer from Company A.
There is no law that says an organisation has to conduct its interview process in a particular time scale other than common politeness. If you want to raise an issue, write and complain detailing what has happened,
Are you saying tha this was your actual job that you were doing, so that you are re-applyying for your own job? Or did you just mean a job for which you were applying?
I am puzzled sine if it was your own job for which you were applying and did not get it, I would expect you to be more upset, so I am not sure if I understand your full complaint, other than the length of time for them to make up their minds.
Many people would say you are lucky to have had a rejection letter, in many cases firms never tell people that they have failed - you apply and there is silence so you carry on applying for other jobs.
I once had an interview for a job for company A, and after several weeks, then had three interviews spread over several more weeks, spent a day with the department of Company B, was offered the job, handed in my month's notice to my current company, worked it, had a week off between jobs, and had worked a month of the new job, when I got a second interview offer from Company A.
There is no law that says an organisation has to conduct its interview process in a particular time scale other than common politeness. If you want to raise an issue, write and complain detailing what has happened,
I'm not sure I follow this Waheed. I'm puzzled by your first sentence which says "All this is very urgent has interivews have not yet taken place " . I can't see what is urgent if you have already been turned down. I realise it took them ages to turn you down but that doesn't make it urgent now does it?.
Or are you saying you had to reapply for a job with the council as you were in a redundancy pool and have been turned down so you want to know how to appeal/object before others are interviewed.?
It's not good practice to make people wait 8 months but it does happen- maybe there was a funding issue or their needs changed.
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Or are you saying you had to reapply for a job with the council as you were in a redundancy pool and have been turned down so you want to know how to appeal/object before others are interviewed.?
It's not good practice to make people wait 8 months but it does happen- maybe there was a funding issue or their needs changed.
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