In a recent post LinkedIn, a job seeker based in Whitefield in Bengalur, shared a confusing story of rejection for a remote position simply because of her residential address.
Suki Rajendran, the applicant, took on the social network website to describe in detail her experience and provoke a discussion among professionals about developing and sometimes arbitrary hiring practices in the city.
Interview and “last blow”
Rajendran noted in LinkedIn post That she was eagerly taking the position. “I got an interview from a company that I was really excited about, a great role, distant, exactly the job I was looking for.”
The initial interview with the recruiter was positive until the seemingly normal question about its placement appeared, Rajendran said. The question: “Where are you in Bangalore?” She replied, “Whitefield.”
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According to the paper, a short pause was followed by a recruiter to prefer candidates who lived in specific areas such as Hebbal, Indianagar, Hennur or Sultan Palya. The reason was the reason for the potential visit of clients that occur every three to six months and sometimes a little more often.
Original post
The recruiter asked her whether she could move, which Rajendran pointed out that this role was distant, and expressed his willingness to travel to occasional clients’ meetings. She even noted that Indianagar, one of the preferences of the recruiter mentioned, was “45 minutes from the metro”, which was easily accessible and comfortable for her.
Despite these assurances, the recruiter issued what a job seeker called the “last blow” by saying: “Unfortunately, the new norm in our organization is to hire only those who live for this role.”
Whitefield: Barrier for employment?
Rejection, based only on a residential location in the same city, left Rajendran stunned when she said, “So here I live in Bangalore, asks for a distant role in Bangalore and is rejected … for not living in the right part of Bangalore.”
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The post ended with Rajendran asking other job seekers in the city to share similar stories. “The Whitefield Warriors colleagues have been someone else’s recruiter to live east of the circular road?”
How did Netizens react to the post?
Other users LinkedIn also shared their experience in finding jobs in other cities, while mostly shared concerns about developing hiring in Bengalur. Some users also published their own reasons for refusal from the recruiter’s point of view.
The user said, “Similar experience with me too. I just said kengeri … I never heard them until then were okay to go with the interview.”
Another user shared a similar experience, but in another city: “I wasn’t in Bangalore, but this is also happening in Delhi NCR. The company based in Gurgaon does not want to hire people staying in Noida/Ghaziabad.”
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One person also called the original poster “Lucky” for the information soon acquired: “You are lucky that standards were published soon. Some companies take candidates through 3-4 rounds of interviews and stretch it over a month, only to reveal standards, budgets and other key details in the last round – then stopped suddenly.”
While another person criticized this practice by saying: “This moved rocket is and now in the city itself is ridiculous. Especially when you have more offices in the city. This is a new aspect of an existing problem.”
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