To & Fro Expenses – Face-to-Face Interview

In these recession times, getting an interview call is a big achievement. Normally companies conduct telecom before they go for a face-to-face interview with the candidate. Earlier, most of the companies used to pay to and fro charges for all the outstation candidates. Sometimes, in earlier days, depending up on the position and urgency of the job vacancy to be filled, companies used to book flight tickets for the prospective candidates; but those days were gone. In these times of recession, if a company responds to your resume and calls you for an interview, that itself is a big achievement.

Nowadays, companies are not declaring to outstation candidates that if they want to attend the interview, then they have to do it at their own cost. The company is not going to pay anything from its pocket toward the to and fro charges of the candidate. Actually, the candidate who is looking for a job is not in a position to pay the expenses. This is the time the company should come forward and shoulder the expenses. Nevertheless, this is not the case. In good olden days (read pre-recession days), every company worth its salt used to pay all the charges including relocation to the selected candidate. But, in these times of recession, where people lost their jobs and are unable to pay their own expenses to attend the interview though talented, are not getting help from the interview-calling company. This situation is too bad.

In summary, companies have to think humanely. If they feel that a candidate is worth to do a job with them they should come forward to pay the expenses incurred by the candidate for attending the interview. That is what is called "Gentlemen mentality"; companies, which are mean and do not have the Gentlemen mentality, just tells their prospective jobseeker that you are selected for face-to-face interview, but if you are willing to pay your own expenses, you can attend the interview otherwise no, because we are not paying you single penny toward your interview expenses.