I was really, really excited to work at ARC so I appreciated that they let me do an interview by Skype while I was out of town for a few weeks. It went well and the interviewer, in an admin position, asked if I could come in when I got back to town to meet with the manager of the open position. From what she said it did not sound like this would be a second interview, but in her scheduling email it was referred to as an interview so luckily I did a bit of preparation in the little time I had, because that was what it turned out to be. I thought it went really well and I sent a handwritten thank you note to the manager. A week or so later, the admin emailed me saying they hoped to have more info for me soon. A couple days after, she left me an ambiguous voicemail asking me to call back about the position. Before I had a chance, she left another similar voicemail, so of course by the time I did call her, I had gotten my hopes up in spite of myself. Turns out, they were "going a different direction" with the position but they hoped I would still volunteer. I kept it professional on the phone but I was incensed and heartbroken. She didn't even say it was a hard decision, or that they would like to see me apply again in the future, just that they hoped I would donate my time to them instead. I know they had no way to know about all the factors on my end that made this so hard to take - I had been applying to jobs for months, I had missed possibly the best Northern Lights display of my life so I could finish the application, I was on vacation when she called - but it still seems like a lot to ask of an applicant for such a low-level position to do two hour-long interviews in the space of a week (and without clearly stating that the second would be an interview, when I had to really put myself out even to get to it). Moreover, it just seems inconsiderate to leave a person two ambiguous voicemails and make them call you back so you can tell them they're not getting the job. Please, just use email. I applied for 40 jobs last year and interviewed for more than a dozen, and no one ever called me to say I was rejected, much less made me call them. It might seem like a nice personal touch, but it was actually devestating, and it's so disappointing that they would fail to realize this.