Received an email from RJ that advised another email would be sent inviting me to a 'Digital Interview'. This is the single most unprofessional approach to recruiting talent I have ever even heard of. An internet-delivered set of preselected questions you are supposed to respond to while being recorded on your webcam. 30 seconds to consider your answer, 3 minutes to respond. Rinse-and-repeat.
Make no mistake - this is a very valuable bit of information on how a firm fails to value its people. Not simply outsourcing the HR process, at a senior level, to a machine, but the macro-view on what people mean to the organization. "We haven't the time nor interest in speaking with you, most especially if you are interested in working here and we believe we need your skills."
As a candidate, you have no manner in which to ask questions and explore the role or your fit. In fact, by outsourcing, even if given an interview (which this web-record nonsense is not), you still wouldn't be able to have an exchange of thought to judge cultural fit as it is a 3rd party. RJ hides behind some specious lie about this being "for your convenience". PLEASE.
It is also reflective of a larger workforce that is unwilling to defend their personal integrity that a firm even dare to take this approach. Candidates suffer through such an engagement believing 'they have no choice'. Well, not me.
If out of the gate a firm is so disinterested in your skills that this is their chosen method of interaction - THANK THEM! They've made it quite clear that you should never entertain any relationship with them as an employee or a customer. What a wonderfully valuable lesson to gain so quickly in the process. You've removed any uncertainty.
This is the definition of an - INTERROGATION - not an INTERVIEW.
Goodbye Raymond James - you'll join the countless in the books of history of financial firms that once were...
