As my company recruits and brings in fresh faces, I frequently end up in conversations about how horrible some companies are at hiring. By being slow, indecisive, and just plain rude, they watch the top talent turn their backs for sunnier skies.
We’ve all heard or been a part of the stories. The job-seeker gets one interview and then the cold shoulder. They move on and accept some other job. Months, or maybe a year, later the interviewing company calls back for a second interview. Often this is attributed to the slow moving, federal government.
Apparently, it is not just the federal government. Add BMW to the list of losers. They are way behind. At some point late last year, I registered myself on the BMW careers website. Nothing came of it. By this point last year, I had already accepted my current job. This morning, however, BMW was nice enough to email me to update my status:
Thank you for registering with BMW Careers.
We will inform you of current vacancies as soon as they come up.
No wonder I didn’t hear from them.
I felt that pain. Interviewed in late Feb first time, late March or early April at the latest for the second go around. Boss wanted to offer me but corporate slowed the process. Offer finally came in late May/early June. I started work after three weeks off on July 9. Boss would have had me start with other sales engineer who transferred from NYC office at Labor Day, with my planned vacation, had he gotten his way.