Weird Reasons For Interview Dropouts :P

Just though of sharing this information with you :)

In your Hiring life have you faced a scenario, where you have lined-up candidates for the in-person interview and finally no one turned up? What will you do in those situations? What would be your answer to the interview panel which is ready to interview the scheduled candidates?

Those were "Standing on the Knife" kind of situations where i am trying to reach the candidate on the one hand and on the other hand, convincing the client to wait for some more time to see if the candidate arrives the venue as committed. I wonder sometimes if those candidate can understand the word called "Commitment". The interview panel believes the words of the Consultant/Recruiter to make themselves available on their productive time. Still there are some genuine candidates who calls the recruiter to explain their absence. On such case, we can make the interview panel/client understand and provide an opportunity to see if the candidate turns up on another schedule.

Despite several reminder, the candidate commits us their presence and at last you will still look into the doors to see if someone turns for the interview to save our face from the interview panel/client. There are some candidates who will not answer the call and keep the phone ringing. Few, afraid to say their absence and some switch off their phones for few hours or a day.

On the next day i call them to enquire their absence and to explain that i was in soup. But i would get a weird reasons for not showing off as committed. Few of them for you inline below

* My relative or Granny suddenly expired.

* Met with a minor accident.

* Fever or illness.

* Went to home town for holidays and could not come back as planned.

* One of my friend met with an accident, went to hospitalize him and got delayed.

* Vehicle got punctured or struck in between.

* My boss didn't grant me leave or permission.

* Critical project issues came up.

* Team discussion extended or prolonged.

* Unscheduled Training sessions.

* Unplanned Client Call.

* Went to solve legal issues in our family.

* Went to renew driving license / family card / gas connection etc.

* On the way (but still in his/her office).

 Hope you would have got more funny reasons than me. Never schedule someone who is not keen for job and who doesn't feel his/her commitment as top priority than anything else in the world.