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COMMUNICATING INTERVIEW RESULTS 1

 When I arrived the Commercial Capital of Nigeria in 1988 armed with a Second Class Upper Division Bachelor's Degree, I was confident that securing a job will not be difficult, that was not so after all.

In several of the interviews I attended, I was told, they were looking for Masters Degree Holders, and out of naivety I believed without understanding that I was face to face to one our national maladies - NEPOTISM.

Towards the end of that year, I attended an interview, at the end of which an announcement was made to the effect that the results will be available to our sponsors. In answer to a question with regard to those without sponsors, we were told that those without sponsors had no business attending the interview in the first place.

The first interview I attended after post graduate school, I got to know the result of the interview on a Sunday evening, a day after I should have assumed duty. When I got to the company on Monday morning, I collected the Offer letter which I rejected initially because of the terrible small salary until my attention was drawn to two sentences therein:

Firstly, That the official working hours shall be 8.00.a.m - 4.00 p.m. Monday  - Friday.

Secondly, That I should resume on Saturday, 7th July, .... My conclusion was that somebody was against my employment, hence the delay of the information as regards the results of the interview. There and then I decided that wherever I shall be in charge of any interview process, I shall communicate the results of interviews to all candidates within a reasonable time 


Fast forward to the first decade of this 21st century, I attended an interview in a manufacturing company where I decided within myself before meeting the panel of interviewers that I was going to work there. Three weeks after the interview, I had an urge to call the Consultant for the result of the interview. Hear the Consultant "we have been looking for you for two weeks now". I was not contacted, consequent upon our national Malady, the Financial Controller of the company had a preferred candidate, the Consultant equally had a preferred candidate but the Senior Staff Association and the Branch Trade Union of the company rejected the Financial Controller's candidate before the interview held.

When I finally assume duty, I rededicated myself to the decision I made back in 1991 to communicate interview results to all candidates within a reasonable time.


In concluding, next week, I'll share how that decision worked for me.

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