Entretien d'Embauche : les Promesses Verbales (ne valent rien!)

Good morning, my friends. I have never in my life seen or heard of a verbal promise made during a recruitment process that was kept or honored afterwards. It doesn't exist. There's no reason for that anymore. People who make verbal promises to you, worse and worse, like you're in an office. Yes, I promise you that. They're generally not serious people to start with. No serious person will make a verbal promise to you in a company. I'll tell you why. Because people simply change. People move on. The guy makes you a verbal promise today. Tomorrow he gets promoted to another place. Tomorrow he finds a better opportunity in another company and he leaves. And you're left alone with your promise. And no one knows what you're talking about. And I keep getting testimonials to that effect. I'll give you an example from my professional life. One day, a company contacted me through a recruiter, a headhunter. He told me, we have a manager position opening. Okay? We have a team of technicians. We need someone with experience to manage them. I agreed. I sent my cv, all that. I went to meet them, and a long process began. Interview after interview after interview. It lasted, I think, six weeks of interviews. Literally almost every few days there was someone who wanted to talk to me. We were getting towards the end, and then suddenly the manager who was being recruited, the director of this department told me, yes, we have a problem. What is the problem? Yes, I am very embarrassed, but we have a problem filling positions. He told me that the manager position on paper is not ready yet. Human Resources is taking too long. The. There are obstacles. Some of the decisions are made in the United States. All that, there's a lot of bureaucracy. It's complicated. So what I suggest is that we simply recruit you on a technician's contract. And of course, I'm telling you, between ourselves, it's just a matter of two to three weeks. I don't want to delay because we really need you. We need your camp. He's always brushing you off. Those who lie to you are always going to do these systematic things, like all the crooks on earth will always brush you off. You are someone very competent. We need you. You are essential to our department. So you come, you start your management job, and then under a technical contract, but quite quickly, a matter of two, three weeks. The time for things to unblock at the human resources level, the time for the paperwork to be ready, and they update your contract, and there you go, and the whole thing and the title and everything. Okay, I'm coming. I was just happy. I said to Myself, Here it is. This is an opportunity for me to do something else. I'm joining this company. First of all companies, I'll tell you right away, where there are guys who make you promises like that, it's already a sign during the interview phase that things aren't going well. The guy is recruiting for a manager position. When he tells me there's no contract or there's no manager position, so what do you do? You miss your people. The guy makes you walk around for six weeks and only then does he tell you that the position for which you have been interviewing for six weeks is not available at the moment. Do you know what I mean? Generally, these are indicators that you are in a dishonest company, you are in a disorganized company. You are in a company where nothing works. And honestly, do you want to go there? Do you want to make a career there? You will just tear your hair out, you will just get angry, you will. You will just stress out, you will achieve nothing. Demoralized, you will leave. And that is what happened afterwards. So I joined this company. And then. And then there you have it. And then I end up managing a team. And not only do I have a technical contract, which means I have a contract at the same level as the people I manage. And on top of that, I have the same salary, not a higher salary. So I have more responsibility. I have more work in terms of more responsibility. Just to give you an idea, I sometimes had to wake up at 5am to attend meetings with people who were based in Singapore. Okay? So the Asian teams towards the end of their day. So I really had to get up really, really early. Then I spent the day in the office with people here in the UK. Okay? And in the evening at midnight 11pm, I was sometimes in bed with my headset on like that, attending a meeting with people in the United States because there were urgent meetings and this manager was very demanding. He kept sending me meetings. Yes, please. You have to be there. You have to be there, okay? Just to tell you that sometimes it can be a bit of a challenge. So I can understand being given more responsibility. I have no problem being given more responsibility, being involved in the field more often, having impossible hours, I'm fine with that, but I want to be paid accordingly, okay? Because the guys I managed, they came in at 9am, they left at 5am and that's it. They didn't worry about it. I kept chasing him for this contract. This contract was never done. It never materialized. Then the guy who promised it to me left you know, he found another opportunity elsewhere. He left. So I found myself again. Everyone knew that I was the manager. Everyone saw me as the manager. That's what was written in my outlook signature. However, in the company's systems. When I went into the human resources systems, where I saw my profile, my photo, my address and all that, my title wasn't manager and my contract didn't say manager. Well, after six months, I was fed up with this team. I realized that these people were unprofessional and there were many, many problems in this company. A lot of turnover, a lot of people leaving and all that. I myself ended up resigning after six months. My patience was already exhausted. However, I'll tell you something now. Can I put on my CV that I was a manager? No, I can't. You see the lie, the impact it can have later on. That means today, if I find a managerial opportunity and I want to rely on this experience, I can't put it on my cv. Do you know why? Because in the uk, like elsewhere, when you give a cv, it serves as a basis for conversations, for interviews and all that. They recruit you and everything. But what we're going to do is immediately, at the time of recruitment, we're going to do what's called a background check, a profile check. Now, it's quite rare for the company itself to do it, but in fact they have it done by agencies. There are companies that specialize in profile checking, so they give them a cv. They say, this is the candidate or employee who gave us this cv. Can you check it? So what are these people going to do? They've started calling all the employers or creating emails or HR and asking, this is what this person has worked for you? Of course, there's data protection in everything. Companies respond to reference requests within a fairly strict legal framework. They're not going to talk about exactly what you did inside, what are your missions, whether you were satisfactory or not, whether you were nice or not, whether you showed up on time. That's not it at all. They don't have the right to talk about that. They'll simply say, there's a very specific reference. Yes, we confirmed that. Such and such a person or such and such an individual, for us, from such and such a date to such and such a date is, thank you. It's just a line and a half, right? There's no more than that in the reference search. The problem is that if I put that I was a manager in there and then they do a reference search and tell them that I was a Technician, they say, well, you lied. You don't have that experience. You told us that. But then I end up explaining that I was lied to during an interview and that I have to lie now, too. Do you know what I mean? Always, always scams. And this is not a personal story. I'm telling you a personal story. But many people who are watching this video recognize themselves in this kind of story. And the people who write to me here on this, on this phone that I keep giving out, who write to me on this WhatsApp. Don't send text messages. Please send WhatsApp. For real. When I say WhatsApp, I mean WhatsApp not. There are people who send me text messages. I don't have credit on this chip to respond to text messages. So I was saying, you should never believe the promises that are made to you. And lots of people write to me saying, look, I was disappointed. I'm in a company, I was promised things. So they promise you things when you're recruiting, and then it doesn't materialize. So what you have to do is always get the promises in writing. And again, I don't even want to tell you. I don't even want to tell you. You know, I've even seen written promises being broken, the violated. Right? I don't want to tell you that. If it's written, it's great, but if it's written, it gives you a certain amount of leverage, okay? It gives you a chance to negotiate. You're in a position of strength. No, no, it's written. Guys, listen. Look, it's there. Whereas if it's not written, the guy could leave tomorrow or the girl could go on maternity leave or whatever, and then you're screwed. There. You. You're alone with promises that you believed in, and then there's no one who can do anything for you. So never, never listen to or take seriously the promises that are made to you verbally during the recruitment phase. I'll even tell you something. Those who make verbal promises to you during recruitment, well, generally they're telling you that this company isn't a good place to work. Okay? If they make verbal promises to you, if they tell you, yes, I promise you, okay? This is just us. There's no one here. We're between four walls. I'll tell you something. If they do that to you, if you hear that kind of conversation, well, if you have to feed your family, then go ahead and join that company. I'm not going to tell you not to go. Sometimes it's a crisis. You have no choice. You only have one shot, so go for it. But if you're in a phase where you're interviewing with several companies, okay, you're interviewing elsewhere, and you have a better option elsewhere. Go elsewhere. Just burn them. Burn them because they're dishonest. No one, no honest person can do that. It's not possible. I have been in recruitment. I have assisted in the recruitment of I don't know how many dozens or dozens or hundreds of people in companies for over 10 years. There is not a single honest person in a company who can make you a verbal promise. Even if I want to promise you something, I can't because I know that I myself could be somewhere else tomorrow. Okay? It's simple. You shouldn't accept this kind of province and take it as a negative element against the company and the people who make it to you. It's a very broad topic. I'll come back to it another time. I have had cases. I have had one or two or three cases where people have made things for me in a company, okay? And sometimes people that I respected. People. I'm talking about people here. This video is really specifically about promises during recruitment. That means towards people you don't know. You're seeing them for the first time or the second time, so you have no idea of their value there. You don't have any closeness to them. But I can tell you that I've been betrayed on promises by people I even considered friends in business. Okay? Verbal promises are worth absolutely nothing. Okay, thank you, my friends, and I'll see you in the next video.