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Sarah Pierre
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Secretary at Learning To Care Training

Went to Training and then...

I am not distressed about this just curious what in the world happened!! So I went to an interview last month for an office position on weekends. I arrived on time but no one seemed to know where the hiring manager was. When he finally came, he agreed that I would be a good fit and could come in to training any day I wanted to. I chose Saturday. He did not mention them that the job requires memorizing a three page script. I was under the impression i would be a secretary and not a sales person. For some reason he always contacted me through his assistant which slowed down communication quite a bit as she wasn't always working. I came in Saturday and he told me to sit and observe the other women answering phones. I did that for three hours while looking over the script. When it was time to leave, I went into his office and asked when should I come in again. He said he would have the assistant call me to go over the script. Well, the assistant never called so I emailed her to get the status. She says sorry, we don't think you're a good fit for our company. My question is: how did me sitting there all day watching other people talking on the phone show them I wasn't a good fit. I did exactly what they told me.

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Julie Jakubiec
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Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager, US Sales @Jobcase

Hi Sarah- when you applied to the job what was the description of that role? Did you apply for a sales role or for an office position? There seems to be a pretty significant disconnect somewhere.

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Anthony Harrington
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It sounds like they were disingenuous from the very beginning, including a misleading job ad, I am sorry you wasted your time but it you dodged a bullet in my opinion.

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Sasha Contreras
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Chat Tech Advisor For Apple at Kellyservices

When you talked to the hiring manager before the three hour "training", did he tell you what the job duties would be? There seems to be a huge disconnect somewhere and they just wasted your time.

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