Job candidate arrives at interview only to be told that the interviewer has already left, candidate withdraws their application despite attempts to reschedule: 'Job hunting is hard enough'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 4, 2025 5:00 PM EST

We cannot stress this enough–employment is a two-way street. Both job candidates and hiring managers should go about the job-hunting process with that in mind. Both of them should be considered the interviewers, especially since the position should fit both sides, not just one. This directly means that if hiring managers cannot treat their candidates with the respect they deserve, they should not be hiring anyone in the first place.

Unfortunately, just as interviewers find themselves meeting with many candidates who do not fit the company, job seekers also end up meeting with a lot of companies that do not fit them. You can go through hundreds of job interviews before you find the right one for you, including some interviews that are less than respectful, to say the least.

The job candidate in the story down below experienced this recently, when they got to their job interview only to find out the interviewer was not there. The company thought it was no big deal that the candidate came all this way only to be told they will reschedule the interview.

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  • "Attended an Interview Only to be Told That the Interviewer had Left"

    I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post. If not I can post it somewhere else. I (37f) live in the UK, I'm employed at the moment
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  • but my job is only temporary so I have been looking for full time permanent jobs. It's a long and arduous process with a lot of rejections
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  • and ghosting but that's just how it is when job searching. To my surprise I was contacted by one of the jobs I had applied for, a textile company for an
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  • administrator/receptionist role. They had invited me to an interview through the Indeed platform, initially they had asked if I could interview the next
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  • day. I advised that I couldn't as it was too short notice, but I could do the morning after that. I had no response until a couple of days later.
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  • When they did respond they asked me if I could do the Friday. I told them I could, and I had made arrangements with the managers at my current
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  • job to work a half day so that I could attend this interview. The day of the interview arrives and after working for half I day I make my way to the
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  • interview. Now, that particular day wasn't great weather wise, it was incredibly windy to the point where things were being knocked over. But I persevered and arrived at the building.
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  • Imagine my surprise when I got there only to be told that not only did they not put the interview in their own books. The interview was arranged on Indeed
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  • and it was a date they asked for and I agreed to it. They also told me that after several interviews they did that morning the interviewer had left the
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  • building. They asked me if I could do Monday morning instead. I was upset and caught off guard, so I initially agreed to it. However, when I left
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  • the building and was on my way home I was feeling really upset and like my time wasn't respected at all. After getting some good advice
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  • from a friend and my fiancé I had decide that I was no longer interested in the job. I left them a message on Indeed and to make sure that nothing
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  • slipped through the cracks I called them as well to let them know that I was withdrawing my application.
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  • Job hunting is hard enough as it is without companies engaging in such appalling behaviour. They prey on people's desperation which is plain
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  • wrong. Know your worth and if a company is messing you about and not showing any respect for your time it is OK to walk away. Interviews are
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  • a two-way street and employers and job hunters need to realise this.
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  • No-Football-8881 That's so disrespectful and very disheartening. I had something similar years ago. I was on my way to an interview, over an hour away and was planning on relocating if I got the job.
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  • They phoned me while I was in the car to see if I could do the interview now. I explained that I was travelling and planning on being on time (10 mins. early) for the arranged
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  • interview. I got there and it was a waste of my time. They had clearly given the job to someone earlier. They barely asked me any questions. I was out in 20 minutes. What a waste of time.
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  • AngelicDragonGi... OP That's awful, I'm so sorry that happened to you. Sometimes companies have a specific person in mind they want to hire. But in the interest of "fairness" they hold interviews but have no intentions of
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  • hiring anyone but the one they want. It's a horrible practice and wastes people's time. Again I'm sorry you went through that especially with the length of time you had to travel. I hope something better did come along for you.
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  • It is very disheartening, job hunting is hard enough as it is right now with sending out CVs, filling out separate application forms, doing online assessments. It's genuinely horrible but I want
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  • to work and so I keep going. I will find something eventually. Thank you so much for your kind comment.~
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  • ScrubWearings lord I get why you're upset with them. It was very disrespectful for them to do that. But was the line about "perseverance" due to...wind...really necessary? I get if it was a snow storm or something but it was windy? Like really? lol.
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  • AngelicDragonGirl7 OP Yeah thinking on it, it probably wasn't necessary. I guess I was just trying to set the tone for the day and failed miserably lol. I agree it was very upsetting and disrespectful. They could've let me know beforehand that the interviewer had left.
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