Yes, I wrote a letter. And the letter I wrote was to the VP of Human Resources at Aon, Inc. about a Monday’s little fiasco. I went back and looked at the emails sent to me AND the form I was given to fill out and found that (as I remembered) that I was told to check out the Aon.com web site, but the form was for “Combined” which is an ?? affiliate? subsidiary? something or other.
Since the form didn’t say “Combined Insurance, Inc” at the top – only “Combined — Application for Employment” I stupidly assumed it was combined, I don’t know, application and interview notes?
Let’s put it this way. I couldn’t find any reference on the Aon site to Combined. On the Combined site, it was obviously the same web design and I think there was mention of Aon. Combined certainly did have their own employment listings. (and management positions were listed there as well as sales).
Anyway, my letter deals with the pointing me towards the Aon site and not the Combined site and then to the really bogus questions on the application form. And to the fact that this guy had told me there was a possible array of jobs available and when I arrived it was only sales.
By the time I got done with the letter I was totally creeped out about the whole thing. And I mentioned that frankly, I had NO way of knowing, sitting there in a hotel lobby, if these two men actually worked for Aon, Combined or anyone else for that matter. How weird is that? I might NEVER go on an interview in a hotel lobby again! And I will certainly ask for company ID next time I’m anywhere but on company premises. Geesh.
This VP was the ONLY even vaguely HR related name/title I could find. On the Aon site of course it lists the Board and the Management heads and that’s where she was listed. It was even hard to find a real address for these people and there was NO email addresses given. I think one phone number.
I’ll be interested to see if I get a response at all.
