Interactive Interview III: The Timed Test
It just gets lamer and lamer. You'd think that after the online stuff, and then the voice mail bullshit, I'd get to maybe talk to someone real. No dice.
Dear JonasParker,Thank you for participating in the interactive interview. We have reviewed the results and would like to invite you into an online questionnaire.
This questionnaire can be accessed at www.stupidsite.com (http://www.stupidsite.com). Once you have arrived at this website, you will be asked to enter a session ID (located in the Candidate Login box).
Your session ID for this test is: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
You then be asked to read and agree to a confidentiality agreement. Once you have agreed to it, you will be asked to identify yourself, including your application ID number.
Your application ID number is: XXXXX
The test involves multiple-choice questions. For each question, simply click on the best answer and then select "next" to move on. Depending on your connection speed, it may take a few seconds for each new question to load, so please do not press "next" repeatedly if the question does not appear immediately. Please note: This is a timed test.
Although the test is available 24 hours per day, we would like to arrange for in-person interviews shortly, so please try and take the test as soon as possible.
If you have any technical problems or questions, please send an email to help@abccompany.com.
Thank-you again for your interest in the position in this position. We look forward to pursuing your application further.
Sincerely,
Me
Vice-President, Business Services
ABC Company/XYZ Company
So in the end I get to do...more online stuff. I am back to where I started, but this time it's a timed test. I swear that I am only doing this just so I can blog about it. (And because I like the immediate gratification I get from these emails.) I don't even really know what they do. I suppose that it doesn't matter until I get a real interview anyway. What a bunch of asshats.
Memes are Internet things where people hear about doing something cute or fun like answering a series of questions and posting these answers on their blogs. This is so lame that I want to invent the "lame". It's a meme where the overall subject is something horribly lame, like employee seekers that waste everyone's time with online questionnaires and voice mail. And interviews where they prattle on about their golf game, or ogle breasts, or lie about the job requirements. Or just anything really lame. It should start here. I'll start small.