An interviewer at a Staffing Agency or Employer is a gate-keeper. That person (or team, but normally one of the interviewers opinion tends to prevail) can change your life.

Most interviewers are professionals and do a good job. A minority… not so. The most common complaint, when things don’t go the right way for a Candidate, is how impolite (or outright arrogant) a particular Interviewer is.

This is not commonplace, and it is certainly unfortunate, as it gives the rest of us a bad name.

In those cases, I feel that the Interviewer developed some variety of Napoleon Complex: the power to change other people’s lives is just too tempting not to feel grandiose.

If you consider that a Corporation (Government is different, we will talk about them in another article) was started by a guy or two with big dreams, little money, lots of sweat and tears and slowly (as soon as they could afford payroll) they started hiring fellow workers that shared the dream and gave it their all… why so much has changed when the Company is not big?

The pioneer spirit that started that Company, is what made it great, what created the vision and a business model that succeeded. There is really no room for arrogant, cocky interviewers that feel so self-important. No room for them to be rude.

Not only that is morally wrong and bad for the business, but it gives the Employer a bad name and shoos away the best talented applicants, who normally have more than one job offer and would rather deal with true professionals.