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[Xarelto-10]

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Had a phone interview for a hospitsl RPH position. The recruiter didn’t get in touch with me to provide date and time based on the phone interview expected date promised to me. So I had to email them and finally emailed me to pick one of two days.
I replied immediately but they did not respond with date and time until less than 24 hours before the interview- and only after I emailed them to give me time and place information.

I went still thinking if they just did it because they wanted to look professional about it. And I get a sense the whole time I was interviewing I was just there with the outcome predetermined.

is this the new normal or am I overthinking it...
I keep telling myself the worst outcome is I got to practice my interview skills but sure it still bothers me thinking all about it....

 

[Pharmacy Kid]

Had a phone interview for a hospitsl RPH position. The recruiter didn’t get in touch with me to provide date and time based on the phone interview expected date promised to me. So I had to email them and finally emailed me to pick one of two days.
I replied immediately but they did not respond with date and time until less than 24 hours before the interview- and only after I emailed them to give me time and place information.

I went still thinking if they just did it because they wanted to look professional about it. And I get a sense the whole time I was interviewing I was just there with the outcome predetermined.

is this the new normal or am I overthinking it...
I keep telling myself the worst outcome is I got to practice my interview skills but sure it still bothers me thinking all about it....

Sometimes the employee and the candidate don't hit it off and they can appear uninterested during the interview. Sometimes they do have an internal candidate, and you are just interviewing as a numbers game. It is hard to tell unless you ask them post-interview and they give you an honest answer. I had six interviews this past year and didn't get hired because four of them were internal candidates.

One IHS site had indian preference, one VA site had a VA applicant, two HCA hospitals had internal candidates. They reason I know is because I emailed the managers to ask what I could have improved on as a candidate and they told me about the internal candidates. What I learned about the job market is

1. It sucks
2. Sometimes it is not about how good you are, but how good the other candidates are. It just takes one person who is slightly more qualified to take that job from you
3. Take every failed interview as a learning experience

 

[Xarelto-10]

Correct that the competition is fierce for sure. And I don’t go to an interview with a sense of entitlement. But, I just don’t get it why they will waste theirs and the candidates time and resource once they know who they want to bring onboard.

Ditto on “Taking every failed interview as a learning opportunity”

So how long have you been looking ?

 

[mentos]

Yes many employers waste everyone's time by posting fake job openings where hundreds apply, then they waste even more time by interviewing a few. They saved the spot for the nepotism candidate or hot girl the whole time.

 

[Xarelto-10]

Yes many employers waste everyone's time by posting fake job openings where hundreds apply, then they waste even more time by interviewing a few. They saved the spot for the nepotism candidate or hot girl the whole time.

That is true. Fake positions are being posted in many cases.

 

[projektreverb]

Yeah, this strikes me as them already having a candidate lined up. You’re just part of the horse and pony show to make it seem like the process was “fair” and they interviewed a bunch of equally qualified candidates.

 

[Dred Pirate]

ya - don't get down - to put things in perspective - I was/am a ED clinical specialist - a near by hospital system was starting an ED program - they had 5- count them 5 open ED Rph positions between three hospitals. I had a phone interview - but did not get an inperson interview - I have 13 years experience in the ED - building a program from scratch into a 24/7 operation. Was I bitter? hell yes - and I didn't even really want the job - just wanted to test the waters. Just goes to show jobs are hard to come by - they at least admitted they wanted to save some of the positions for internal residents - but I can guarantee you that there weren't 5 other applicants who were as good (on paper) as me - I am not saying I am some great catch - and I didn't come across arogent in the phone interview - that just isn't me.

 

[rxkrafted]

It's always about who you know in hospital pharmacy. Directors don't really wanna take a chance on new faces regardless of how much fluff they have in their resume because if they find out their work ethics suck or just terrible to work with, it's a real pain in the butt trying to get rid of them.

 

[Xarelto-10]

ya - don't get down - to put things in perspective - I was/am a ED clinical specialist - a near by hospital system was starting an ED program - they had 5- count them 5 open ED Rph positions between three hospitals. I had a phone interview - but did not get an inperson interview - I have 13 years experience in the ED - building a program from scratch into a 24/7 operation. Was I bitter? hell yes - and I didn't even really want the job - just wanted to test the waters. Just goes to show jobs are hard to come by - they at least admitted they wanted to save some of the positions for internal residents - but I can guarantee you that there weren't 5 other applicants who were as good (on paper) as me - I am not saying I am some great catch - and I didn't come across arogent in the phone interview - that just isn't me.

Point well taken. Staying optimistic.

 

[Xarelto-10]

It's always about who you know in hospital pharmacy. Directors don't really wanna take a chance on new faces regardless of how much fluff they have in their resume because if they find out their work ethics suck or just terrible to work with, it's a real pain in the butt trying to get rid of them.

I doubt it is hard to get rid of anyone especially now. But I can imagine the influence on hiring decision certain employees may have.
But in all honesty, I have seen people with excellent work ethic being driven-out and they were not horrible people to work with either. It’s that they simply did not want to have anything to do with the politics and drama of hospital pharmacy.