A new First!

chuckcork
chuckcork Posts: 1,471
edited August 2009 in Commuting chat
Ever applied for a job, been passed over but told "your CV would be kept on file"?

Now a world first: a job I applied for 2 months ago and got knocked back on a month ago, they've come back to me, asked if I'm still available and saying they'd need a quick start.

Never heard the like....

Anyone else ever had this happen?
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Yes.

    My current employer turned me down, called me back 6 months later when I was about to start with another firm (I turned them down) and then again about a year after that, when I eventually made the jump.

    A colleague got turned down in order for them to take me, then they called him back 6 monthhs later......

    A small company thing perhaps? HR departments are present to ensure that tallented people's CV's get shredded, right?
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Been kept on a waiting list.

    That's good news, Charles. :)
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Happened to me as well.

    I went for a contract job at a company but didn't get it as they were looking for someone more experienced who could jump in at the deep end. However a couple of months later when they were looking to fill a permanent role they contacted me about that.

    Unfortunately I didn't take it as the place was on the other side of Glasgow and I was looking at a commute of ~40 miles along the M8.
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    Same thing happened to me, the job I'm in now, I applied for a more junior role, got turned down, three days later was asked if I'd be interested in a more senior role and got it.

    Hooray!
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Happened to me to my first job in fact got turned down after the interview and they rang back about 3 weeks later to offer me the same job.
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  • fury21
    fury21 Posts: 71
    I think my Father-in-law has one of the best tales along these lines.

    He went for a interview for a Surveying role only to find out the company wanted a Quantity Surveyor, not a Land Surveyor (which he was). The interview ended quickly, but politely, once he pointed that out.

    A few months later the company phoned him up as they needed a Land Surveyor now... for a job in Jamaica. The result was my (now) in-laws lived there for 7 years and my wife was born there (Saint Andrew Parish, nr Kingston).
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  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Does happen. I am sat here proving it. Not 2 moths but 3.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    happened with me with the prison service. I was initally turned down for a job as an admin assistant working in the prison records office. two months later I was called and asked if I would be interested in accepting a role as an admin officer (high grade better paid) for the Home Detention Cerfew section of the custody office. Spent four years at the Prison before making my escape having also been prisoner employment clerk and an intelligence collator (i.e listening to prisoner phone calls and reading their mail)

    The commander recieved six job offers just before he hit 40 (standard age for retirement from the Royal Navy) all of which offered him work in senior roles as a marine or mechanical engineer in civvy street. He didn't apply for any of them, word of mouth just got around that he might be on his way out of the forces. He turned them all down and signed a 10 year contract extension with the RN, with a 5 year optional on top of that taking him to 55 and never having to work again if he dosen't want to. Methinks he made the right move.

    Whats more he dosen't have to go back to sea if it isn't required. Kind of good seeing as he loses five days of any deployment to sea sickness!
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    NGale wrote:
    Whats more he dosen't have to go back to sea if it isn't required. Kind of good seeing as he loses five days of any deployment to sea sickness!

    God help us if there's a war :)
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    biondino wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    Whats more he dosen't have to go back to sea if it isn't required. Kind of good seeing as he loses five days of any deployment to sea sickness!

    God help us if there's a war :)

    :lol:

    Believe me sea sickness isn't unusal amoung sailors. But never fear the Commander is a marine engineer by trade, so he isn't the one throwing torpedoes and bombs at the enemy. he gets the minions to do that :wink:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    NGale wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    Whats more he dosen't have to go back to sea if it isn't required. Kind of good seeing as he loses five days of any deployment to sea sickness!

    God help us if there's a war :)

    :lol:

    Believe me sea sickness isn't unusal amoung sailors. But never fear the Commander is a marine engineer by trade, so he isn't the one throwing chunks at the enemy. he gets the minions to do that :wink:


    fixed that for you. :wink:
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    NGale wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    Whats more he dosen't have to go back to sea if it isn't required. Kind of good seeing as he loses five days of any deployment to sea sickness!

    God help us if there's a war :)

    :lol:

    Believe me sea sickness isn't unusal amoung sailors. But never fear the Commander is a marine engineer by trade, so he isn't the one throwing chunks at the enemy. he gets the minions to do that :wink:


    fixed that for you. :wink:

    :wink:

    I have to admit I have a great time taking the mickey out of him for his sea sickness. it's kind of funny seeing him going green when we go out on the boat off Dartmouth.
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  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Well done CC! :D
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