Waiting for a call for escape route
I applied for a job with an employment agency that dealt with the long term unemployed at the very start of April, things sped along and I was phone interviewed within a few days. My hopes were high, as was the salary and I could really see myself getting into the role and becoming an energetic go-getter, pumping these dole moles full of self confidence and enthusiasm, all the while being readied for MASSIVE PROMOTIONS.

I waited, and waited and erm, am still waiting. I emailed them about 6 weeks ago to ask them what the fuck was happening and they responded by saying I had passed the phone interview and I would be contacted for a face to face interview. Still no news. Every morning I come into Mordor I check my email to see if teh fickle finger of fate and pressed submit and honoured me with a date for this seemingly ficticious interview. Obviously there is a super sized portion of irony served with this as they are meant to be a worldwide employment agency!

I am a patient guy, but I feel I will end up becoming a patient in the local quack shack if a lifeline isn't thrown to me soon. So the question is, should I mail them back and ask them WTF is going on, thereby making me look like an annoying cunt who's application has just edged nearer the bin, or should I sit here, going quietly insane?
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 11:45, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Email them
that's too long for you to wait they'll have to understand that, if you were mailing them a week after your phone interview then it would be annoying.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 11:55, Reply)

You're right
I'm just being a spineless cock
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Yeah, stop being that.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Contact them
If you passed the telephone interview then they should be in touch with you again. If not, why not? Being pushy isn't necessarily a bad thing when searching for a job.

Good luck!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Email sent.
Shite posted.

Well, I may as well cover all bases.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Yay!

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)

get onto them
I find the way companies fail to get back to applicants outrageous

when I applied for this job after uni I probably applied to 20 engineering companies. This one came up and was ideal so I took it. Didn't hear a single thing from any of the others until 9 months later when one other company sent me a terse letter saying "sorry, no"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Set fire to their offices
or post them a poo

/ac
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Or poo set in fire

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

I spent 8 years working in recruitment
which sucked balls, but if it's been that long then it's probably either been filled or pulled. Just ring the agency and ask them straight out. If they are any good they will be straight with you. The other alternative is the role is dragging and your their best candidate for it so are not offering you other roles that appear in the interim. But if this were the case I would expect the consultant to be on the phone with you at least twice a week. Hope you get the news you were after, if you want any help with structuring your CV gaz me. You would be surprised at how the perception of what a good CV is differs between the public and the recruitment agency.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:46, Reply)

That's very kind of you,and i may well take you up on your offer
The job in question is not with an agency, it is directly with the employer, who are a sort of private sector, job centre type thing. I have never had any dealings with employment agencies to be honest, i've heard too many horror stories regarding their lack of professionalism.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:25, Reply)

In 8 years
I met a handful of people who weren't sewer dwellers. It's a horrible industry full of middle class kids with no real skills and uni dropouts.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 14:05, Reply)