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I decide to respond to an ad for Engineers in the above company.
Today had a phone call, you have been successfully shortlisted to attend an interview.
No surprise given my CV, I have never not been offered a job I`ve applied for in the past.
Can you attend the interview on the 24th, next Monday.
Do I have to attend in Oxford, yes, you`ll have to attend several interviews an assesment exam, a SHL test 😕 and a final interview.
I reply sorry, you did say your calling from Miele didn`t you.
My reply was I`m sorry with such short notice, a long trip and having to do it several times I`m not prepared too, my CV is long and comprehensive, if your not prepared to asses on that then I`m not prepared to waste my time.
After all you are only recruiting for repair Technicians, I guess I`m now not ever going to work for them with that response.
The last company which was based away from the location they were recruiting in put there Managers in a Hotel for several days and interviewed in the conference room.
Am I get to old, I`m only mid 30`s, but I`m still angry that a company has such a stupid recruitment process.
No way would I work for a company with that attitude.
I guess I`m not thinking the Miele way, guess I`m too independent for them.
Re: Mi5 or Miele.
Aye, and don’t forget before you start, you have to take another trip down there to have your brain removed and replaced with a laptop so you can just plug yourself into their machines to fault find 😉
TC
Hi Lee8,
Any reasonable company will cover your costs for travel, remember they are asking you to attend THEIR interview.
Call them and ask them to cover you travel expenses, I would be very supprised if they said no to this.
Re: Mi5 or Miele.
Many years ago I became disillusioned with the company I started off with in this game and applied to Miele for job, Actually was accepted and offered the position, But began to think ! Do I want to work for a firm that would employ Me? 😆 So eventually drifted in to the mad world of the self employed appliance repairer.
Goose
Re: Mi5 or Miele.
Maybe its a sign of the times or maybe I`m becoming a grumpy old man.
But a job is meant to be a two way relationship, not all there way.
Re: Mi5 or Miele.
They will pay your travel expenses for interview.
With miele you will also have to get into their way of thinking and that does not include thinking for yourself because thats not their way so its the wrong way! They will honestly try to brainwash you. You will learn what to say when to say what to do and when to do it i kid you not its part of the training and a whole lot more.
Nearly every person i know at miele seem to have come out the same mould they say the same things act the same way look at things the same way because it’s the MIELE WAY! Trust me you might not think it but they do! And the few that miele could not brainwash are actually decent people but are looked upon as outsiders and are marked as such there is a definate devide within miele sorry mielA forgot thats how your told how to pronounce it with an A instead of an E.
I know personally that most the engineers who work for miele visit this site but will never say anything and never post anything because they know like everything else with miele it gets monitered. They know to the second where you are and what your doing every minute of the day they watch everything and more.
I am not saying it is a bad company i think it used to be a better company when the germans actually run it just saying its a different type of company.
Some people like it that way just get up dont think and just go and do it come back home but me personally i dont i have to think for myself and i am not a number!
Oh forgot and i cant work 2hrs a day for nothing aswel like they do EXPECT!(1/2 hr travel in morning 1/2hr at night 20-30 min download calls and sort email updates et etc and 1/2 hr sending spares back thats without your unpaid dinner break!)
But on the plus side you dont work in many cr4p houses (well until they started selling in the sheds instead of independents now there is worse places then before) the machines are decent to work on, you dont have that many calls but you can end up doing some distance at times,van stock not that bad, they keep you updated, they do kit you out fairly well tools etc, you have a decent van, phone, laptop, pension a few other perks but wages are not the best at all (make sure you haggle in interview) seeing they keep telling everyone they’re the best they’re about average i would say for the industry but you do get dinner money which is a bonus.Hth phil
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