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Hi,
At the moment I am supposed to have a Teams 'interview'... but no direct invite was sent out. Contanct the agent get a message from him that he will get in touch with the company and get one sent.
that was 3/4 of an hour ago. Still waiting I really don't like Teams interviews...
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Just remember to wear trousers* in case you stand up to leave at the end ...
* For Left Ponders read "pants". If you reveal a lack of pants in a UK interview when you stand up you'll probably go on the Sex Offender Register ...
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Just finished, wore a clean shirt, with a pair Jeans a Levellers Roadie would be proud of so standing not an issue. 
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Did it go well?
I know, I know - you can't really tell until (if!) you hear from them. But you can get a "feel" for the interview and interviewers ...
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I think so, messed up the definition of S parameters...
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Good luck! Hope you get the job (if you want it after the interview, that isn't always the case ...)
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Not too sure... working in area which is a little outside my comfort zone (using RF to find cancers!)
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you reveal a lack of pants in a UK interview when you stand up you'll probably go on the Sex Offender Register ...
Here on the left side of the pond you can do much, much worse[^] and still keep your job at CNN... 
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So, it's true that CNN really is full of w@nk@rs ... 
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glennPattonInThePub3 wrote: Contanct the agent get a message from him that he will get in touch
And you really expect him to care about you?
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I usually have greedy agents who want to earn some money, not those who I would like to marry*. 
* Not that I would be that dumb in this universe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And you really expect him to care about you?
I'm guessing his comission would be less, ££ win every time!
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In my experience of agents I am not so sure.
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Agents don't like Money? are you sure?
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No, but I never understood why some of them did not try harder.
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A thing I have noticed, firms I have worked for don't like them and treat them as a pain. Treat canditiates like subhuman, what goes around comes around.
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Given the fact that you never received the interview link, I would wager you don't want that job anyway.
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Ah, the "agent" ... one "agent" stapled the first page of my resume to the front of someone else's and submitted that. I know because I was in the interview while they looked at "the" resume. The background questioning started "weirdly" ... "I never worked on xxx!?"
Didn't get that job (wonder why), though I did land there a few times under contract. Life.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Same thing happened to me, "ah you worked on X, I see", "No, I want to work X systems" 
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Teams interview? As in, install teams on a device that I own? Blasphemy!
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Teams or (HELP!) Zoom, thats whats secure(?)
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How about an actual phone call? My number is on my resume' and doesn't require either of us to install anything. If they insist on seeing my face I'd grill them on why, and see it as a warning of micro-management.
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Oh but that would violate GDPR (or some other rule), the 'agents' format the CV to meet company standard which mean, email, phone, postal address all come off meaning the company can't contact you without them. As above at times the 'agent' (for want of a better more offensice name)  rewrote my CV to fit the job, giving mr 15 years experince in a field that was at most 2 years old. In the post-pandemic where 'all roles are remote' you will be lucky to be able to see them face to face.
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Well if they can't contact you by email they can't really arrange a teams meeting either. In this case they obviously had some contact (presumably email) in order to agree to a time the teams meeting should happen, even though the email with the link never showed up.
Seriously though, applying for a job constitutes permission to be contacted regarding that application, equally regardless of the method of contact (within reason). If they somehow loose your phone number then they can ask for it via email the same way they asked OP to install teams.
My present job I got (with no agency involved) in the middle of the pandemic, and all my interviews were exclusively over the phone. The only time I did a video call was during onboarding where HR wanted to match my drivers license photo to my face.
My previous job (pre pandemic) only had one in-person interview. To this day I have no idea if they messed with my resume. The phone interviews in that process involved me and the potential employer both calling into the agency switchboard with a meeting code that was delivered by email. On the contrary, using phone instead of teams lets the agency invoke greater control, wherease if you use teams, you could record each others' teams ids and then go around the agency.
I stand by not supporting a video call, unless maybe I was desperate.
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