on hold = rejection ?

On Hold with no background music. So When does it end?

o to all Aramco seekers and Student 13.
This is my first post although I have been checking this site for 4 or 5 months following my job application. Posts about the sometimes long application process and especially the 'On Hold' situation are often answered with the mantra of 'patience' as the key to Aramco.
This clearly true. It might also would help for some to state that other obvious fact, put in polite terms of course, that the process is much less than very very poor for some applications.

I would expect many applicants from the from the oil and gas industry proper to be acquainted with a former colleague or know of some other who has made the move to Aramco.
Other professionals and 'outsiders' would not I expect understand much about the company methods. I struggle to understand what the constraints are preventing a happier application process for some.

I applied for a single vacancy. I got an interview. It was straight through the door and in to a video link. Before, during and post interview I was given no overview of the project. It was not even mentioned by name by anyone on the day. I would say that the role and project scope were not really explored either.
As no information was volunteered about further possible recruitment stages or about the company or anything at all, I came away feeling I had misfired and that somehow it had got away from me. I was told only to expect feedback in a few weeks. I fully expected this to arrive and to be able to move on. Well no such luck.

Months had elapsed and after repeated requests the promised feedback arrived - a stereo typed thank you ect..on hold. lucky me? For the benefit of an 'outsider' no clue given as to what 'on hold' meant. In my case ' On Hold' meant waiting to be embarrassed after the vacancy was re-advertised. :oops: Finally over?

With Oil and Gas professional perhaps their skill set enables them, to cross over to near - related work and be easily considered for new vacancies, I am not sure. I would have looked forward to learning about some of the amazing jobs people do in oil and gas.

I personally feel that for my industry it would have been better by far to be given thank you but no thank you. At least then, any future fresh job enquiry would be appreciated. With out that few would consider the process credible enough to consider it again.

Thanks for reading.....over I think? :mrgreen:

thanks for the post VPainter
Well yes I suppose so. After one year I am sure that I would forget about it. I had started too forget and then saw the job re-advertised.
I imagine that your friend would have been offered the same job or one very close to the one he originally applied for. I doubt that would happen in my case.
In the end I suppose that if I had what they believe they needed, then I would have been invited to chat a bit more or given more information. I would prefer rejection to the subs bench. That way you cant be thrown on too late in to the game.. eh la :roll: