THINGS RECRUITERS DO THAT CAN BE SO ANNOYING

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Written by Amarachi Ogbonnaya.

This is Nigeria where recruiters think they are Lord over prospective workers. I remember when I was so keen of getting a job, fresh out of service and I would submit to virtually everywhere I hear they are recruiting, I didn't have a master plan, just my shiny degree and my zeal to work and earn money for myself. I knew I had to bring something to the table, I reasoned my dedication and smart brain was all I could bring, well to an extent sha.

Then the interviews came in trickles, I was overwhelmed, I would wake up very early in the morning, if an interview time said 9am, I would be there by 7:30 if I didn't know the place so well, or 8am if I knew the place.

I observed the following from Nigerian recruiters:

How can you call for a 9am interview and by twelve mid day, you are yet to start? Only in Nigeria. Nigerian recruiters feel like they are small gods and deserve to be worshipped, no joke. They feel as if the interviewees have nothing doing so their time can be wasted. Not a care in the world if the person has a side hustle. One day this happened to me and when we started, apart from the office space been so small and they cramping up in the small space, they had the nerve to ask if I could work till late into the night if I am chosen and I blatantly said no, the only thing I regretted so much going there was the transport fare I wasted, suffice to say I didn't get the job. Pheeeeew.

Another thing I observe they do is they don't serve you brunch after wasting your time and keeping you till lunch time, not even mineral and snacks. They just waste your time and you go home.

"We will get back to you," and they never do, this shii gets me crazy, it was later I learnt if they didn't like your performance and do not want to hire you, they tell you that. I went for one some time last year and after asking me my salary expectation, he said he would get back to me that very day, he never did. A simple mail to that effect would have been more professional, rather than blank out on the person.

As a future employer of labor some day, what I wouldn't do is waste people's time because I know how important time is as an entrepreneur, it is only in Nigeria that we believe sufferhead equates humility and professionalism, wrong.

I went for an interview in an insurance company in Abuja, and the man that intervied me, after telling me thethe transport allowance is ten thousand naira and mind you, this company is in the central part of Abuja while I stay in Gwarinpa, that he wonders what I need a job for, when I would eventually get married and a man would take care of me and tell me not to work, I told him, not every woman wants to be a house wife, but even at that, that would be between I and my husband, not you deciding my future, I rejected the job and walked out like the boss that I am (I walked out broke, lol 😀😀). If women decided to come out and talk about their interview experiences, you would be shocked.

Have you seen a woman reject a fellow woman because she wore trousers to an interview and the other mama deeper life, seer of God and omniprovider of who will go to heaven, saw it in her that she is a wayword someborri and for that, she was denied the job? I have seen and it wasn't funny, that day I wore a gown and so, because it wasn't a short gown, I was safe from the eviction process, that was the day I first experienced woman's inhumane treatment to her fellow woman and it wasn't funny.

What was your experience during a job interview? Share it in the comment section. Happy weekend lovelies.