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Senior Systems Analyst at Zurich Financial Services
Posted Jul 9, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed Aug 2009 in Schaumburg, IL (took 2 weeks)
1. Submitted online resume for specific position with cover letter written specific to relate resume experience to position being posted.
a) The cover letter was written after having researched Zurich over the course of 4 weeks investing considerable time into the company, the organization, the type of work performed at location submitting resume for and finally several hours into the position itself. There was a lot of online detail about the position, and I knew indifviduals working there at the time whom I contacted to get personal information about the role and the organization it was in. Fortunately contact was very familiar with team and provided valuable input as to what would make a vialbe candidate and the type of people managers were for that area.
2. Contacted by recruiter for an initial phone screen, which had on the spot.
3. Scheduled face to face interview at end of phone screen. Consisted of:
a) initial interview with would be manager.
b) interview with another manager who would be highly engaged in working with role establishing detailed direction and schedule.
c) team interview with 3 individuals who would be co-workers, two who were currently holding same position interviewing for.
4. Was contacted by HR recruiter day after interview being notified of intention to make an offer to gather detail around timeline of availability.
5. Offer was made 3rd day after interview (48 hrs after contact from HR recruiter about intent to make offer).
6. Turned offer down.
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Reason for Declining
Had competing offers for similar positions from other companies at time. The offer I chose was financially comperable but location was more favorable. Major consideration was that the information I received from aquiatance at Zurich did not paint a positive picture of management in group, or really management of overall division. Sounded as if team had gone through several individuals who had all quit from being pushed to hard and burning out from working without appropriate time to refresh. Had known these individuals from having worked together in past and met with them while consulting in Schaumburg for lunch. During those lunches they didn't make it sound like they enjoyed their work or the way they were treated by their management. I don't mind working hard, prefer it to boredom as it makes day pass quickly and adds to sense of contribution to organizations success. Personal information and experience while interviewing left a deep sense that working beyond reason was the norm while there was no tangible reward, and managment was not beyond dressing down empoyees working very hard to meet dates but struggling due to volume none the less. Actually knew an individual that wound up becoming my uncle who afterwards told me turning down the position was a good move and proceeded to list why he left. Simply put, to much information (much more than the norm) from to many people I knew making it sound like working there was very impersonal and not rewarding. Competing offers all had much better backround information from the sources I had available.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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