Life in Business: What not to do when seeking employment
I was looking for an event planner to run a major conference. I put a post on Facebook and Indeed.com. I had a ton of inquiries. One person reached out to me. He had great experience and I contacted him immediately.
He responded with, “Where are you located?”
I wrote back, “Long Beach.”
He responded with, “Long Beach where?”
I wrote back and said, “Why don’t you check out our website?”
He wrote back with, “WHERE ARE YOU LOCATED?”
I was a little put off. He couldn’t look at the website and see that we were in New York? I was also concerned with his research skills. Did he have any?
When I wrote him back, I told him we were in Long Beach, NY and asked him if there was a time we could meet. He responded with the following inquiry, “What’s the salary?”
Okay, now I was put off. He sent me a great resume, but couldn’t even do his homework to find out about my company and now he wants to know what the salary is?
I wrote him back and said that I didn’t think he was the right fit. He obviously doesn’t do the research and his follow up skills aren’t what I want to see in a future employee.
His response was:
“I’d like to know what gave you the impression that the position is not a good fit? I’m sure it is not because I asked about salary and benefits. I, like you, have over 15 years of experience and owned and operated two business. I don’t believe in wasting people’s time, either yours or mine, if the role does not meet my salary requirements.”
I ignored his response. If he didn’t want to waste my time, why did he send me his resume to begin with? Why didn’t he ask me what the salary was prior to sending it over and having this encounter?
His arrogance was a total turn off to me. Could you imagine having someone in your office telling you what to do?
