OK, I dont care if anyone wants to pick the bones out of this but, Im so fracking annoyed, its untrue.
Agent contacts me and asks if Im available for work to which I said yes. Righto, we've a role with a new bank
in scotland. You need experience in financials blah, blah, blah. No probs, my cv's all financials and ticks the requirements etc.
So I state my rate expectations, no probs says agent. After a week, agent contacts me to say someone known to the team has been offered the role, sorry. No probs, not good but hey it happens in contracting.
The next day, agent mails me, says he doesnt know what's going on but the new bank now want to do a telephone interview ostensibly for the same role, would I be prepared to go ahead? So, I ask why they now want to telephone interview when the role is filled? Agent says not sure but the opportunity is there so, yep, Im up for it.
Next day, I get a call from someone who announces himself an SIT Manager. He has difficulty presenting a logical, coherent explanation of the project, never mind the role. His introduction is interspersed with a number of pregnant pauses and recaps of what he'd said earlier etc.
He then proceeds to ask a question or two and I start to get into my stride, giving examples to back up my experience, how there's more than one way to do things and the benefits of each.
He then picks up about me being a QC SME. 'What's a QC SME' he asks? A Quality Center Subject Matter Expert, I say. 'Yes, I know what an SME is, what makes you one?'
WTF didnt you ask that question then? Anyway, I give examples why Im considered by past clients to be an SME.
As the interview wraps up, I ask him if the new bank is located at such and such business park? He says no, he's not from the area but the brand new office for the new bank is 10 minutes walk from the station. He gives me the post code 'from the bottom of my email' which I instantly recognise as the business park I mentioned!
Anyway, we wrap up and I await feedback.
Tonight, I get an email from the agent thanking me for my efforts but, a candidate 'known to the team' has been offered the position and I was unsuccessful. WTF?
So for the same role, the new bank had someone known to the team be offered the role only for it to fall through, arrange a telephone interview with me only for another (or the same) person known 'to the team' be offered the role?
No wonder new bank's project is in the tulip (as admitted by the 'SIT Manager'). I think its fracking poor show. The only saving grace is I didnt spend 150 quid on a return train ticket.
Oh BTW, the store clubcard has been shredded as we speak! Twunts.
Agent contacts me and asks if Im available for work to which I said yes. Righto, we've a role with a new bank
in scotland. You need experience in financials blah, blah, blah. No probs, my cv's all financials and ticks the requirements etc.So I state my rate expectations, no probs says agent. After a week, agent contacts me to say someone known to the team has been offered the role, sorry. No probs, not good but hey it happens in contracting.
The next day, agent mails me, says he doesnt know what's going on but the new bank now want to do a telephone interview ostensibly for the same role, would I be prepared to go ahead? So, I ask why they now want to telephone interview when the role is filled? Agent says not sure but the opportunity is there so, yep, Im up for it.
Next day, I get a call from someone who announces himself an SIT Manager. He has difficulty presenting a logical, coherent explanation of the project, never mind the role. His introduction is interspersed with a number of pregnant pauses and recaps of what he'd said earlier etc.
He then proceeds to ask a question or two and I start to get into my stride, giving examples to back up my experience, how there's more than one way to do things and the benefits of each.
He then picks up about me being a QC SME. 'What's a QC SME' he asks? A Quality Center Subject Matter Expert, I say. 'Yes, I know what an SME is, what makes you one?'
WTF didnt you ask that question then? Anyway, I give examples why Im considered by past clients to be an SME.
As the interview wraps up, I ask him if the new bank
is located at such and such business park? He says no, he's not from the area but the brand new office for the new bank is 10 minutes walk from the station. He gives me the post code 'from the bottom of my email' which I instantly recognise as the business park I mentioned!Anyway, we wrap up and I await feedback.
Tonight, I get an email from the agent thanking me for my efforts but, a candidate 'known to the team' has been offered the position and I was unsuccessful. WTF?
So for the same role, the new bank
had someone known to the team be offered the role only for it to fall through, arrange a telephone interview with me only for another (or the same) person known 'to the team' be offered the role?No wonder new bank's
project is in the tulip (as admitted by the 'SIT Manager'). I think its fracking poor show. The only saving grace is I didnt spend 150 quid on a return train ticket.Oh BTW, the store clubcard has been shredded as we speak! Twunts.
smokin
. He \ she stated they wanted 400 a day (role advertised at 350). The new bank 
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