What Not To Do In An Interview - Part Two
December 7th, 2006 by Jennine
My muse for “What Not To Do” did the absolutely unforgivable - she didn’t show up. Not only did she not come into work, she didn’t bother ringing to let me know and she lied to the agency as to why she didn’t appear. Allegedly her reason for not coming in was that she thought she was starting tomorrow - if that’s the case then why did I ask her to come in on Friday to complete paperwork so that she could start with a clean slate on Monday.
The tips from this fiasco are:
- If you are offered a position and can’t start on the day in question, advise the person you are dealing with so they can make arrangements before hand.
- If you think you will be late - call your new place of employment or your agency and advise them of the situation and what time you will be in.
- Put yourself in your new employers’ shoes. We were short staffed all day due to the ignorance of one person. My part time employee was stressed out as she was trying to cover the position that wasn’t filled as well as do her own job. Not a good thing.
As you can imagine I was not happy, so I advised the agency that I didn’t want her to start at all with us and I had some more CV/Resumes faxed to me. I looked at 10 CV/Resumes and was only able to interview one person. Luckily her referee praised her up and she seemed like a confident person, so hopefully she turns up as requested.
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