Last Tuesday I had my 3rd interview with a company. It went well. All signs pointed to positive. The recruiter called and said they would make me an offer by Monday. I fell asleep on Sunday certain I would have an offer in hand shortly. Monday came and Monday went. No one called me, no one emailed me. Tuesday morning came. Nothing. Tuesday afternoon came. Nothing. Why aren’t they calling me!!!!! The last bit of communication I had with them happened last week. The owner asked me to take an online assessment. “Sure! Just send me the link!” I assumed it had to do with assessing my sales skills. It turned out to be a psychological evaluation. As I went through the questions I felt extremely uncomfortable. I can understand asking a potential employee to take a drug test but a psychological evaluation seems like a huge breach of privacy. I considered closing the browser window and letting them know I refuse to take such an assessment. But I really like this company and I like the job. I NEED to work! I WANT to work. “Suck it up, Donna,” I said to myself. I finished the assessment feeling violated. And then came the silence. I suddenly started to worry that they got the report and decided I was too much of a risk. Did I answer the questions incorrectly? Am I psychotic? My stomach started to dissolve itself.
My Gmail notifier finally chimed. I got an email from the owner asking to call him tomorrow. It should take about 30 minutes. Perhaps my psychological evaluation didn’t show me to be as mentally incompetent as I thought? We shall see.
I like the new look myself. I think you should keep it. I don’t get over here as much as I did say in…2006, but I still stop by to see what’s up at the ‘ville.
Good luck tomorrow. Maybe he wants you to call to discuss your being hired, that’s the positive way to think. Lets hope so.
I’ve been sent to job interviews by recruiters after being told “Oh, you’re a cinch to get this job. You’re perfect for it. They aren’t even considering anyone else”. Then the tune changes to “Well, they’re looking at ONE other person, but undoubtedly you’re a better candidate”. Then the tune changes to “Well, they’re not sure who they want”. Then the final tune is “We don’t know HOW they could have picked someone else”.
Job searches are a sanity test. Remember that you ARE sane…Just hang in there!
I saw the other comment and wondered if I posted already. 😉
Anyway, I am sure you will do fine. Don’t get paranoid. If it was meant to be then it will happen.
I’ve never heard of an actual psych test BEFORE getting a job! Sure the usual psycho-babble questions about what kind of tree you’d be but not a formal test.
I was on the job 3 days before they gave me a Myers-Briggs test here. My favorite part was when they sent someone over to rush me which I figured was to see how I dealt with stress. I promptly got up and made coffee like I normally would if I want to work faster. I guess I passed because I’m still here.
Since you rank so high as a paranoid schizophrenic how about this – the reason he told you to call today at a specific time is so that they’d know where to find you when they sent the padded wagon 😀
Good luck today (one way or the other)