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Applying for a job should not be humiliating
Employers in the United States, it seems, are not as motivated as they should be to respect job applicants’ time, effort and dignity.
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Employers, it seems, are not as motivated as they should be to respect job applicants’ time, effort, and dignity.
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Kathryn Anne Edwards
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Everyone has a job-search horror story or knows someone who does.
After flying my husband to Chicago for a day-long interview, one company told him the position had been filled the day before – but that they would interview him anyway to be “nice”. Another relative was retrieved an hour late from a 60-minute computer test in an empty conference room – and flunked because the company could not verify that she finished on time.
