There are red faces all round at Irwin Mitchell, after at least one applicant for a training contract was offered a job by mistake - and then had the offer retracted.
The student was phoned up and told that he'd been lucky enough to secure a training contract. And he then got another call the next day (presumably while he was shaking off the celebratory hangover) from an embarrassed HR manager, who said that it was all down to an "admin error" and the offer would need to be retracted. Nice.
Naturally the student was devastated, and apparently he wasn't the only one. Sources claimed to RollOnFriday that other candidates had suffered the same fate and that the firm's HR department that couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery if it was given the keys and the glasses.
Irwin Mitchell's HR department yesterday
A spokesman for the firm said that "regrettably one candidate was verbally offered a contract in error. We called the individual the following day to apologise and explain what had happened." He added that the firm had "reviewed our internal processes in this area to ensure it doesn’t happen again", and said that he was unaware of any other similar cases.
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The student was phoned up and told that he'd been lucky enough to secure a training contract. And he then got another call the next day (presumably while he was shaking off the celebratory hangover) from an embarrassed HR manager, who said that it was all down to an "admin error" and the offer would need to be retracted. Nice.
Naturally the student was devastated, and apparently he wasn't the only one. Sources claimed to RollOnFriday that other candidates had suffered the same fate and that the firm's HR department that couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery if it was given the keys and the glasses.
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A spokesman for the firm said that "regrettably one candidate was verbally offered a contract in error. We called the individual the following day to apologise and explain what had happened." He added that the firm had "reviewed our internal processes in this area to ensure it doesn’t happen again", and said that he was unaware of any other similar cases.
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I bet they did not say it was conditional.
As they and the candidate will know English law enforces verbal agreements.
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