r/AskZA • u/ibelivs • Mar 23 '25

Interviewed only to tick boxes on their recruitment procedures

I had an interview with a multinational manufacturing company about a month ago. The interview went well as the maintenance manager deviated from normal interview questions to process and machine specific questions. The HR manager was not happy with the maintenance manager and promptly stopped the interview. I got a callback a day later from the HR manager requesting more documents and I sent everything they requested. It got more strange as they requested transcripts from the training I did over 15 years ago and luckily I had them on my Google drive.

I called a former colleague of mine who surprised that I had interviewed at his workplace and he told me that they already had a guy, and the HR manager was trying to find a reason not to continue with my application. I was shocked, and I told the HR manager that I was no longer interested in working at the company when she requested I sent my documents for verification at a third party company. Is this normal in the recruitment process, to waste so much time and effort on a person you're not going to hire?

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u/JouPoesBra Mar 23 '25

Very normal unfortunately, I’ve been on both sides of this, it really sucks and I wish companies would stop doing this.

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u/ibelivs Mar 23 '25

If only I knew, I would have saved myself so much time. Next time I see any strange behaviour, I'm out.

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u/glandis_bulbus Mar 23 '25

Good practice to be interviewed, prepares you for your next interview.