3 years ago I applied thousand jobs across EU and finally landed a job in the Netherlands for an analytics role in a technology company (±1 billion revenue).
However I couldn’t help but to notice that I got so many interviews from German companies that never progressed from the first interview. They immediately said I wasn’t a good fit and didn’t bother to send a business case study.
I read that sometimes recruiters interview people just to add numbers on their KPI goals and one of them is to ensure they at least interview people of color. Is this actually a thing?
While I am glad in my current state I always wondered what went wrong with my interviews
I don’t know but I experienced the same thing at all the German institutes I applied to. I got one interview and after that, no news, nothing.
My interviews also had a person on the committee who wasn’t specialized in the field but was there to ensure that the questions I was being asked weren’t discriminatory. That’s what I was told, anyway.