Pre-Interview Interrogation Anyone?

We’ve had candidates miss interviews, we’ve had clients miss interviews, and we’ve had a few recruiters muck up the process…But until now, I don’t think we’ve ever had Homeland Security interfere with a candidate’s interview.

Here’s the story… The candidate is making his way across the country for an interview and arrives in Chicago just in time to find his connecting flight has already departed.

The airline is kind enough to book him on to a flight the next morning (today), which still gets him to his destination in time for the interview.

The next morning he arrives at the gate for boarding and is informed that he is “Already on the plane”.

"No, No, really, I'm not on the plane" he must have insisted, "I'm standing here". At the same time the flight attendant must have been equally insistent that he really was already on board.

After some debate on his location, our candidate is whisked away by security and detained. A passenger from on board the plane is removed and also questioned.

The apparent cause of the issue? The airline had booked two guys with the same name on the same ticket! Security had to assume that one of the men was trying to get on the plane without a ticket, or worse, trying to assume another identity for some nefarious purpose.

Finally, after being detained for 3 hours, the candidate is released, and calls his recruiter... 45 minutes after his interview was scheduled to begin.

As of now, the candidate is finally on his way to his interview, which after an interrogation, should be a piece of cake.