A few months ago, I interviewed for an HR position. As soon as the interview was over, I felt dissatisfied and knew I wouldn’t want to work there. It was clear that they were in a hurry to fill the position, but out of courtesy, I still needed to give them an available start date, so I provided one that was relatively far in the future.
Then last week, I received a phone call asking whether I wanted to come in for an interview—for the exact same internal position??? What the heck? Is this how HR operates in Tainan⋯⋯? Have you even checked whether I interviewed before? Does your company not keep applicants’ information on file⋯⋯?
What I found unsatisfactory was that they didn’t know anything about the benefits when I asked? Please, take it a little more seriously. Your company isn’t the only one looking for people—job seekers choose companies too, you know⋯⋯ If you don’t even understand your own company’s benefits, what exactly are you interviewing people for? It was an interview that wasted someone else’s time.
The atmosphere at work is pretty good and relatively relaxed.
You have to perform at the year-end banquet. Traveling down from Taipei is exhausting, and you still have to go on stage and perform.
You’re required to wear a uniform, and you can’t wear jeans or casual pants. You can’t wear sneakers or canvas shoes either :)
There apparently isn’t any overtime pay; it’s a fixed-responsibility system. After hearing that rotating holiday duty pays only NT$500 per day, I no longer wanted to join.
The position is for English translation, but the entire interview was conducted in Chinese, and there was not even an English test.
I could not identify any particular advantages.
There was no English test at all, so how can the applicant’s English ability be assessed?
Although the interviewer is Vietnamese, their Chinese is quite good, and their English also seems to be at a certain level.
The company’s policies and salary were not discussed at all.
The customer service translator role is treated as a responsibility-based position. Although there are designated working hours, any messages received outside those hours must still be relayed to the colleagues on duty.
This effectively means there is no real end to the workday. If scheduled for duty on a holiday, one compensatory day off is provided.
The work involves more interpreting than written translation, but there was no English assessment at all during the interview, which is really strange.