What's the weirdest story you have with HR.
Recently I connected with an HR through LinkedIn. I sent her a message asking her what the timeline for the program was looking like. She didn't answer my message, but went ahead and endorsed my bilingual communications on my profile.
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A guy involved with recruiting at GH restructuring came to my school, and I reached out to him for a coffee chat afterwards. He told me that in order for him to take a coffee chat from me, I would need to read all of Distressed Debt Analysis by Steve Moyer. It’s a good book, but it’s…dense. My edition was about 500pp, if I remember correctly.
I sucked it up and read it, and took him up on the coffee chat, which went pretty well since we had the same pretty niche major. Ended up not even getting to the first round at his shop. Whatever—-ended up getting an SA offer at a better shop anyway.
idk why but this is hilarious, heard its a semi-interesting book (as far as finance books go)
I was waiting for him to just not do the coffee chat
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Had a couple friends get asked to do a paper LBO by some of the ladies at Henkel. They showed the prompt and then moved the paper blocking the answer to then reveal the answer inadvertently because they were texting someone while my friends were supposed to answer the question.
Had the head of market operations (who recruited) tell me my interview answers were some of the best she's ever heard in her career and she would set a meeting with me and the team I would be working on. 2 months later she tells me I currently a backup amongst other candidates in the interview process. So weird and frustrating.
I finished a third-round interview with a company that I found through a recruiting agency. The founders of the company were alumni from my school, I put on a great presentation in the second round and they even let me pick an office at the end of the third round. All positive signs right?
Recruiter calls that night to tell me that the offer will come the next day. The next day I hear nothing, absolutely nothing. I follow up with the recruiter, I hear nothing. Conflicted feelings because it was some of my best interviewing - again, they even let me pick an office! - but I move on.
About 4 months later, the recruiter calls me (completely out of the blue) and asks if I've heard from the company at all. I mean, this guy is calling me as if there wasn't a 4-month gap in between calls and asks me if I know anything about their client. I call him out on it, "Hey, I'm just the candidate, you sent me to those guys, why are you asking me about YOUR client???". Recruiter goes on to tell me that the company completely ghosted him - no calls returned, no emails, he even went down there and they wouldn't see him. For whatever reason, this recruiter became persona-non-grata and they didn't want anything to do with them and the client company couldn't contact (or hire) me directly.
So the company ghosted the recruiter and then the recruiter ghosted me in return for 4 months. After that time, he just didn't know what else to do other than call me and ask if I knew anything. It was the weirdest recruiter crap I've ever had.
Bump, these are great
Had a meeting with a scumbag recruiter from Henderson Harbor Group that was based in New Jersey. I unfortunately arrived 30 min late (I did give them advance notice I would be late). The guy was so angry he didn't bother seeing me and sent two guys to talk with me. Surprisingly, I expected a recruiting firm to have had my resume printed out, but they didn't and it lead to an awkward situation where the two went to print out my resume while talking shit and looking at me as I was sitting in the glass conference room.
The meeting was a total waste of time because they were so deeply offended by me being late and not having my resume printed out that they really didn't want to help me out, but they did want me to give them a few references. The guy called my references only to talk shit about me lol
Now this is unreal. They were upset that you were late, but then went ahead and wasted their own time to call your references to talk shit? Unreal 1st tier Degen.
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