Timeline for Why would people make interviewees and clients wait to meet with them, even if they're available right away?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 14:35 | comment | added | Jeroen | @bytebuster Being late for a meeting also shows your own personality. If I have more then one option open I would not pick the company that could not even be on time when meeting me. Whatever I am a client or interviewee. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 16:24 | answer | added | Michael Durrant | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 12:32 | history | edited | user5305 |
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| Aug 6, 2012 at 11:34 | comment | added | Donald | @Qwerky - You make a great point. I once had this interview where the supervisor had a team who was unable to go 20 minutes without direction from him. I say this because he spent the entire interview talking to them. He then had the nerve to suggest that I took to long to graduate from College ( I took my time and had the means to do so ). In the end the job wasn't for me, and I would have turned the company down, based on that person's personality. Did i mention how he spent the other half of the meeting saying how great he was? | |
| Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 | comment | added | Qwerky | Don't forget that an interview is a two way process. I've turned down job offers before because the interviewer was 20 minutes late and obviously was more concerned about his own importance than the task in hand. | |
| Aug 2, 2012 at 20:28 | vote | accept | Mark Henderson | ||
| Aug 1, 2012 at 13:42 | answer | added | David Navarre | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 13:30 | comment | added | acolyte | @Angelo +1. Whenever I had to interview someone, I always looked over their resume and made notes of questions to ask after I got the call that they had arrived. Then i got myself a Solo cup of water, and went forth to the interview. If you're not trying to play a game by making them wait, always offer them a drink of water and/or coffee, so as not to be rude. | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 13:28 | answer | added | acolyte | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 13:21 | comment | added | Angelo | FWIW, they might just be preparing themselves for the meeting: reviewing mental notes or just getting into an appropriate state of mind. How do you know for sure that they're really "ready" for the meeting and are just delaying for some kind of power play? | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 12:42 | answer | added | ewwhite | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Aug 1, 2012 at 12:15 | history | suggested | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2012 at 11:03 | comment | added | Mark Henderson | @superM - not an entirely fair statement, as I'm sure most of us don't work at 100% capacity for every moment when they're at work. | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 8:22 | comment | added | superM | If someone has enough time to pretend busy just to make others wait, it means he/she has too much free time | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 7:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWorkplace/status/230570669119791104 | ||
| Aug 1, 2012 at 1:56 | answer | added | Ulrich Dangel | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 1:40 | comment | added | Be Brave Be Like Ukraine | Sure, it's a personality check. They are trying to see how quickly the applicants get annoyed... Or the colleagues... :) | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 23:47 | history | asked | Mark Henderson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |