Earlier this evening I received an email that gave me deja vu all over again (See Aug 20 entry), and I responded as follows, after I had emailed Aon corp demanding an explanation:
X-Received: 25 Aug 2001 00:13:28 GMT
From: Debbienor@aol.com
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:13:17 EDT
Subject: interview info
To: mgoodman@abcUpon reviewing your resume, I would like to schedule an interview with you for a career, sales or management trainee position. I am interviewing in the Albany, NY., area for a few positions, Monday, August �27 & Tuesday, August 28 from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. When would you be available ? The interviews will be held at The Clarion Hotel and Suites, 611 Troy-Schenectady Rd., Latham, NY 12110. Telephone 518-785-5891. Please feel free to visit our website at www.aon.com, Please return an e-mail of your availability . I look forward to meeting with you.
Thanks you,
Debbie Norton
My reply:
Monday, I had a rather strange experience with people purporting to be recruiting for your company and in fact, just sent a letter regarding the experience to the VP of Human Resources at Aon. It started out with an email just like you’ve sent me. Isn’t that fascinating?
I am not interested in sales positions, which one person conducting interviews on Monday indicated to me were the only positions available. Furthermore, I found some of the questions on the application form to be unprofessional, non-pertinant to job performance and bordering on harrassment.
Not sure what sort of campaign you’re running, but it strikes me as more than peculiar.
I will be pursuing this, since I feel that it is not about hiring me, but probably more to do with selling me whatever you have to sell. I have just sent an email to Aon with a copy of your email indicating that I will pursue this matter with the NYS Attorney General’s office if I do not hear from them directly.
Further, I have posted to the message boards at Monster.com about this experience and will be keeping them apprised of the situation.
Mary Beth Goodman
About an hour later, if that, believe it or not, emailer Debbie Norton from ??Aon?? called to find out what could possibly have made me so upset. I told her I had already contacted higher ups in the company and would await hearing from them.
no no no, no sales. She is recruiting.
I mentioned the highly unprofessional questions on the “application.” She wondered what I could possibly be talking about. I allowed that if she didn’t know, I couldn’t help her.
It did come out that the reason the email was identical was because the man who had previously contacted me and arranged Monday’s interview had given it to her to use and that he had trained her. I had the impression she had just started. She also knew the person who wanted to keep my form (steve) and allowed as she “didn’t interview anything like him.”
“Please call me if there’s anything I can do for you.” Don’t think so hon. Think I’ll wait and see what your home office says.
Totally bizarre. Feels like some really bad b movie. Maybe “return of the high-pressured pod people”!
Geesh, in the last days of my unemployment (hurry up Apple and send me the paperwork PLEASE) my life is turning into some weird soap opera of job seeking.
