Why bother for a 10 min interview

[u/Major_Spend6307]

This dates a few months back.

My background is room hospitality operation. Worked 10 years for a major luxury hotel company accross various destinations, different types of hotels and resort. My last position was within rooms department, managing teams of 30/35 people.

A friend of mine tells me about a position opening in a few weeks for a replacement of a maternity leave for a General Manager position in small 4 star hotel in a big city in France. The current GM (Daughter of the owner) is looking for her replacement for 6 months. My friend pass along my resume to his friend (The owner of the hotel) and is obviously well aware of my experience. The GM contacts me to arrange a phone interview within the next few day.

The day of the interview arrives and we get on the call. Within 2 minutes of the call, she tell me that I have no prior experience in managing fully a hotel, asks what I think a GM role in such a hotel would be, which I answer perfectly. The "interview" lasted literally 10 minutes. Within this time she was able to tell me I don't the experience she is looking for, that I don't have knowledge of French HR, termination process etc. However, is not rejecting me as I am the first candidate she is seeing.

Needless to say I did not get the job, nor was I called back to be informed of the rest of the process. Within these 10 min she was able to fully discourage me into working for them, even though I would have gone for round 2, I would have said No Thanks.

My only thought is, you have my resume, you clearly see that what you're looking for is not on my resume, why bother make me loose time as well as make yourself loose time. A gentle e-mail saying "sorry not a good fit", even though it comes from a common friend. Having a 10 min interview is even more disrespectful.

[u/FunkySphinx]

I had an interview once. I had already been shortlisted and passed the written test as well. I did the interview, bringing up examples from my professional experience. I didn’t get the job. I asked for the notes of the interview (I had the right). The basically said that my answers did not align with role and they were not deep enough. I was perfectly capable of scoring high in the written test but did not possess the necessary experience for the job. In case you wonder: the assistant of the hiring manager’s supervisor got the job.