Started out great, I applied and was contacted the next day by the recruiter. First interview was by phone, very reasonable questions. Second was about a week later, via a video call. My interviewers seemed very disinterested and disappointed when speaking to me, minus one of the women. I was told I’d be contacted if I moved forward. Over a week later, I finally was contacted to shadow. I was told this would be a **ONE** hour shadow. I had to schedule that for the next week, as they waited until almost end of business hours on the Friday of the week they contacted me. I went and commuted down to go do this shadow, dressed in full interview attire as I was told their facility admin would want to interview me as well. No, that was incorrect. I had a five minute conversation, a quick tour and then I was attached to a CCHT and suited up in almost COVID levels of PPE. My time with her was great, but it was far more than an hour and I had not ate breakfast. Almost five hours later, I was still very much unpaid and woozy due to fasting since 5pm the previous day when I’d had dinner. I asked the tech for a moment to sit, as I had almost blacked out when my blood sugar dropped, as well as because of the fact it was 75 in the clinic and they had me in full PPE. I took off my PPE & sat for a brief moment when I felt good enough to stand again. I was still lightheaded due to the low blood sugar, but managed to keep it together to say goodbye to the FA. I asked to leave, as I had only been scheduled for an hour there and had been there over five. I needed time to go get food before I actually blacked out. I was told the FA did not make any decisions and that I would hear from HR soon. I got ghosted for two weeks, sent two follow up emails (one to thank the clinic for their hospitality having me the day after, and then again two weeks later to ask for an update) before the recruiter reached out to tell me I’d been rejected due to the fact I almost blacked out and needed to step away. And that I “should get more experience with needles if I’m going to work in healthcare” when I already have dealt with injections, IVs, etc constantly the last five years. Sorry for trying to not have a medical emergency??? I also still have pending status on workday, so if she hadn’t gotten tired of my emails and emailed back I never would’ve found out.

Interesting, the interviewer was very enthusiastic and supportive. They really emphasized communicating calmly with coworkers and helping prioritize tasks. It was a very humbling interview, despite how easy-going the interviewer was.