Job Interview (Suspicious)

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

So I got a call today, forget the companies name (I was in the bank so quite busy). They wanted to see me tomorrow morning, I am unavailable. Anyway, that's not important. I have a meeting on monday with them. As I thought about it more I became very suspicious, the job is working for charities on the streets of dublin and going door to door. "Chuggers" I think is what people refer to them as?

I have no desire for this type of work, I would never have applied for this kind of role, I simply wouldn't last at it. He mentioned various job roles, but also said that he didn't have any job specs for any of the roles. Gave me some rubbish excuse. Supposedly I applied for this job a week ago. Thing is, I would not apply for any job which I wouldn't be capable of doing. He was supposed to email me more information but nothing has arrived.

Anyone ever got anything like this before? I am thinking of going into the interview just for experience, but I really don't have any desire to take this job. Good idea or bad idea?

Bitsie

It sounds very dodgy to me and to be honest, if you are sure its not for you I wouldnt waste your time going to the interview even for the experience. Wait until you get an offer of an interview for something you are actually interested in and that will be more valuable an experience for you......I wouldnt touch them if i were you!!

katiekins

I'd be more than a bit dubious about it if I were you.

I'm reminded for some reason of an induction day a friend of mine attended a few years ago for a door to door sales company. The day involved lots of 'team building' group exercises, chanting positive mantras, etc. He came out of it on a high, really enthusiastic, but realised the following morning that he'd essentially been brainwashed to a degree about what was really a fairly crap job.

Not saying this is definitely the scenario here, but the people running the company were obviously very clever at this kind of thing, and I have to wonder if this is the next step.

Let us know what you decide to do either way. Would love to find out if my paranoid little theory is anything close to reality!

mrpink6789

It sounds like it's those Concern lads you always see around Grafton Street. Looks like a terrible job to be honest. If it's door to door sales it's even worse.

Is your CV on Monster? He might have sene it up there. Or Irish Jobs have their own database that you can upload your CV on to when you apply for jobs so you might have done this. Jobs.ie is the same.

oldscoil

To be honest, this person sounds like a chancer and definitely not someone you want to have any dealings with.

Experience is not what you learn, it's what you do with what you learn.
If you go along and find this is a waste of time, then what purpose will that serve, I'm pretty sure you know in your heart and head, that this is a waste of time.


You could end up giving him details that could cause you problems down the line, repeated phone calls etc etc.

Therefore a stern FCUK OFF should do the trick!

doolox

Since I took redundancy last Nov 07 and at home if not at FAS I am plagued by chancers coming to the door, especially at night.
My wifes advice is to not deal with anyone coming door to door looking to supply services or get you to give to charity.
Most of the big charities handle their finances in other ways such as postal subscriptions, church gate collections etc.
Once I act like the village idiot, tell them "I have a problem" or "the wife doesn't trust me with cash" they vanish into the distance like a hot snot.......

Pyjamarama

As MrPink said maybe they saw your CV on a job website you're subscribed to. I wouldn't bother going to those type of interviews because the job itself is so rubbish that they'll spend most of it trying to sell it to you, seen as this is not what happens in most interviews and this area holds no interest to you what experience would you gain really?

In my desperation last week I applied for all those Sales/Marketing Jobs on jobs.ie, you know the ones, no experience necessary blah blah blah. Agreed to go for an interview for one even though they wouldn't tell me what kind of job I was interviewing for ("We have roles in lots of departments, the manager will decide what area would suit your skills"). I was suspicious so googled the company and found out that it involved selling make-up door to door commission only. Didn't go to the interview and since then all the other companies that have rang me I've asked if it was door to door sales and they've always said it was so I've just told them I wasn't interested.

Jobhunting right now is so horrible no point in making yourself feel worse by going to a stupid interview for a job you don't want

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Well I never heard back from that guy that rang me... I didn't tell him to F off or anything... I don't know what happened really.

Well at the moment I am not after experience or anything, I am after a job, in anything (within reason), if pay is based in sales then I will pass as I am not good at selling everything. Every role I have had involves sales in some sort or another, I was good at selling products at where I worked. If I have to sell something I am not interested in or have limited knowledge about, well... I won't be good at selling it.

I find it odd that he didn't ring back or e-mail me. Only thing I thought of was when he asked me "are you a bit of a messer" I thought it very odd and said "no. not much of a messer". Maybe this was one of the requirements?

Only other call I ever get is off one woman from an agency to see if I found work... "I really want to help you out, I would love to have a roll for you, but there's nothing, sorry".