To ensure you can reach the person at a time when they are available. If you call unannounced and they don’t/can’t pick up, you’re not allowed to get upset.
they don’t/can’t pick up, you’re not allowed to get upset
Agreed, although I would expect a person applying for a job to be reasonably responsive. I personally would try few times and perhaps send an email saying I tried to ring. But to expect phone call to be “scheduled” is just daft - phone call is the quickest method of contact.
No, you can’t expect someone to be responsive at any random time out of the blue. Every phone interview I’ve had was first scheduled via text or email.
No one is available 24/7, it is not reasonable to expect them to be. If you need to be absolutely sure that someone will definitely be available at a given time, you schedule it.
Or, you leave a goddamn message like a reasonable person. You know that voicemail was invented for a reason, right?
Not everyone keeps the same “office hours”. In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up. You don’t know my schedule, you can’t just make assumptions and then get upset when it turns out I may have other engagements. You might even be calling at a time when I already had something else explicitly scheduled!
It is called voice mail. You are expected to leave one.
In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up
These were intern applications.
I agree that he should have left a message or send a quick email after he didn’t reach them on the phone. I strongly disagree that phone call should have been “scheduled”.
Scheduling is how you can be certain that the person will be available at the scheduled time. If you don’t schedule, then you don’t know if they will be available, and so you have no grounds to get mad at them for not being available.
To ensure you can reach the person at a time when they are available. If you call unannounced and they don’t/can’t pick up, you’re not allowed to get upset.
Agreed, although I would expect a person applying for a job to be reasonably responsive. I personally would try few times and perhaps send an email saying I tried to ring. But to expect phone call to be “scheduled” is just daft - phone call is the quickest method of contact.
No, you can’t expect someone to be responsive at any random time out of the blue. Every phone interview I’ve had was first scheduled via text or email.
Yes, you can expect someone who applied for the job to pick up the phone if you ring few times at different times.
No one is available 24/7, it is not reasonable to expect them to be. If you need to be absolutely sure that someone will definitely be available at a given time, you schedule it.
Or, you leave a goddamn message like a reasonable person. You know that voicemail was invented for a reason, right?
I don’t believe he was called at midnight. It is called “office hours” and you are expected to pick up.
Not everyone keeps the same “office hours”. In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up. You don’t know my schedule, you can’t just make assumptions and then get upset when it turns out I may have other engagements. You might even be calling at a time when I already had something else explicitly scheduled!
It is called voice mail. You are expected to leave one.
These were intern applications.
I agree that he should have left a message or send a quick email after he didn’t reach them on the phone. I strongly disagree that phone call should have been “scheduled”.
Scheduling is how you can be certain that the person will be available at the scheduled time. If you don’t schedule, then you don’t know if they will be available, and so you have no grounds to get mad at them for not being available.
Every phone interview I’ve had was scheduled.