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Here are my thoughts after an online interview lasting over half an hour:
1. Due to the pandemic, the interview was conducted online. Right off the bat, they told me that this is a job that is "very heavily focused on performance, and you need to be able to handle pressure."
2. Basic requirement: At least three and a half hours of call time. The call must actually be connected; unanswered calls do not count.
3. If you do not generate any sales that day (they said 60,000–80,000 is the basic target), you have to work overtime and continue making calls, without overtime pay (if you did not meet the sales target, what overtime pay would you get?).
4. The base salary is 25,000 (before labor and health insurance deductions). There is an evaluation every six months; failing one evaluation means goodbye. They did not say whether severance pay is provided.
5. They asked: What would you do if you encountered setbacks? You have never done telemarketing, so why do you want to enter telemarketing now? Are your strengths suitable for telemarketing? What are your weaknesses? If you lack patience, how would you develop more patience? ... A lot of strange questions.
6. The questions were very short, but the answers were correspondingly difficult.
7. The interviewer talked about sales performance from beginning to end: performance, performance, performance.
8. They did not tell me the result either, but from the conversation it was very clear that the other party was, in their own polite way, telling me: Come back only if you genuinely think you can handle it.
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The interview was for a telemarketing position.
The overall interview process was smooth.
It’s a six-minute walk from the MRT station, so you can treat it as exercise.
The questions were simple and ordinary—things generally asked in interviews, such as self-introduction, strengths and weaknesses, and learning experience.
Telemarketing is pretty much the same everywhere.
However, the products seem quite good.
They have a lot of awards, and I even saw on TV that each batch undergoes testing.
The brand seems pretty good, and they also have celebrity endorsers.
People were walking around.
I’m still not sure whether the requirements mentioned by the interviewer can actually be met.
The interview process was straightforward.
After receiving the job offer, I was told that the original employee would be staying on, so they no longer needed anyone. Absolutely awful…
The interviewer described the job very clearly and vividly, and clearly explained the plan for the first six months so I knew what to expect.
The interview office was a bit cramped, and there was also an unfamiliar massage chair, which made the setting a little unusual.
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Decisions change constantly; we spend all day in meetings, and I don't even know what they're about... After decisions are made in meetings, they get changed again. Efficiency is extremely low!
The infighting is severe. Whether managers or assistants, almost everyone is openly and covertly fighting against each other.
High turnover... well...
Pretends to be very polite
At first, they didn't carefully review the résumé. Only after asking you to come in did they say that you didn't have enough experience. Uh, couldn't you have checked first? What a waste of other people's time. So unprofessional.
The only pro is that the recruiters are easy to fish for information from.
1. I contacted HR, but they couldn’t answer even the simplest questions and couldn’t clearly explain the interview process.
Still, I managed to get some information.
2. It was a group interview, even though this isn’t a large company. That suggests they’re looking for disposable workers.
3. What era are we living in that they still require handwritten résumés and ask applicants to provide private information?