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My experience applying to work at Admiral Insurance On February 11, 2009, an employment recruiter asked to put me forward for a job at Admiral Insurance. On March 16, I had an interview by telephone which seemed to go well. Some time after that, I travelled for 40 hours at a cost of about £200 to attend a "job interview" at Admiral Insurance on May 5, 2009. I was led to believe that this job was primarily about mathematical analysis and generating better ideas than competitors. I have a Ph.D. in mathematics. Based only on my work while a student, I had nine papers of my original mathematical research published in peer-reviewed journals of mathematics, and I was the sole author of seven of those nine publications. I have passed several exams of the Society of Actuaries about mathematics and statistics applied to insurance. I did not get the job and the only feedback that I got after the interview with Peter Marissen was that I was "not a good fit". Is that the best that Peter Marissen can articulate? I do not consider that to be up to the standard of communication that should be expected of someone in a director-level position of an insurance company. Not to mention that it is immensely discourteous and abnormal treatment of me not to provide more meaningful feedback to me about the interview after I travelled for 40 hours and paid about £200 to attend this interview - money which is a very substantial amount to me as an unemployed person, and which I consider to be a business expense of Admiral Insurance. That is, in my opinion, Admiral Insurance asked me to pay £200 of their expenses, and in return they have not even had the courtesy to honor what I consider their obligation to provide a legitimate business reason for denying me the job. "Not a good fit" seems to me to indicate that in fact Peter Marissen had additional or different conditions in mind for this job, different from or additional to what I was told -- something other than ability to do work of superior quality. Surely he should have told me beforehand what he wanted so that I would have known that there was no chance that spending £200 and travelling for 40 hours would lead to getting the job that was described to me. According to everything about the job that was described to me, I would be a candidate of a calibre that would be very difficult to find - practically impossible to find, really, considering the rather low salary on offer. |