None, really.

At the beginning, I saw on a job board that O'Din Market was recruiting for a “Global Travel Itinerary Specialist.” The posting date was 9/12. I sent my résumé on 9/13 and received a reply inviting me to an interview the following week.

When I arrived for the interview, the COO interviewed me first. After asking a few questions about my past experience, he suddenly asked me, “Sorry, may I know what position you’re applying for?”

I was rather stunned and told him that I was applying for the “Global Travel Itinerary Specialist” position, but the COO told me that they did not have such a position.

I told him that I had seen it on the PTT JOB board, but he replied, “PTT? That was a long time ago, wasn’t it?”

I was quite bewildered and kept wondering whether I had gotten the position I applied for wrong.

The COO then told me that what they needed was a “B2B Hospitality Marketing Sales Representative,” whose main responsibility would be promoting the company’s own system to bed-and-breakfasts and hotels, helping hospitality businesses manage room availability and so on.

He asked whether I was interested in the position. I told him that I was not opposed to it, but that I was unfamiliar with the system and would need to spend more time learning about it, so I also asked approximately how long the usual training period was.

He told me that sales representatives would be expected to develop business independently after about two weeks.

He then asked me once again whether I was interested in the position. I told him that I was not opposed to it, because the tourism industry covers a broad range of areas and I also hoped to learn from the experience.

He then coldly told me, “Not being opposed to it doesn’t mean you’re interested.”

He asked me to wait a moment and invited another colleague to join the interview.

A female colleague then walked in. As soon as she sat down, she directly asked me, “What’s the deal with submitting the wrong résumé?”

I was so stunned that I was speechless. The COO then explained that they were no longer recruiting for a Global Travel Itinerary Specialist, but that I had thought they were.

However, I immediately told them that I had seen on PTT that they were still recruiting, while the COO had just told me that they were not.

Next, after roughly explaining their hospitality management and reservation system to me, the COO asked me to pretend that they were hotel operators and pitch the system to them.

Based on the knowledge I had gained from my previous experience, together with what the COO had explained to me, I roughly organized the information and pretended to be a sales representative explaining the system to a hotel.

After several rounds of questions and answers, the COO told me, “I think you don’t understand this system well enough. What you’re saying is so empty.”

I again explained to the COO that at my previous company, another department was responsible for this system, and I only had a general understanding of how it operated,

so I needed time to become familiar with the system’s operation and the relevant professional knowledge.

After hearing me out, the COO only said, “So you just don’t understand it.”

From the beginning until the end of the interview, the COO’s attitude was not very friendly and was full of skepticism toward my past experience.

Not to mention that, as soon as the female colleague entered the meeting room, she started scrolling on her phone—first while it was lying on the table, and eventually picking it up and continuing to scroll.

After the interview, I checked the JOB board and confirmed that the position had indeed been posted on 9/12, contrary to the COO’s claim that it was a position from a long time ago.

Furthermore, both 104 and the JOB board were still recruiting for the “Global Travel Itinerary Specialist” position I had initially applied for.

The subject line and body of my original email both stated the position I was applying for, yet when I arrived, I was told that I had applied for the wrong position.

It was truly baffling.