I interned twice with Chevron with excellent reviews and waited about six months after the second one to hear of an offer. Getting emails every few weeks saying. . .we are still working on something give us more time, then after all the college recruitment fairs passed I received an email saying we're sorry we can't place you at this time. What I should have done is gone to the recruitment fairs and found something else. My fault, lesson learned, at least the experience was valuable and it will look nice on the resume. Really wanted to work with Chevron, but it looks like what happened is a blessing in disguise.
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Hunger Games comment cracked me up. May the odds be ever in our favor throughout these layoffs!
I started with a different company in 2002. They went thru layoffs, they were cutting people left and right, but they did not rescind any offers and were not cutting new joiners
My 2014 intern (full time new hire) just got here two weeks ago. I told her it's pretty much like hunger games this year.
Wow can you imagine being a new hire into this mess????????????
Most likely, they will follow the 2008 example. Accepted offers will be honored and those not accepted yet will be rescinded.
Chevron will not rescind an offer. Recruiting has reduced metrics, so there will be significantly less offers than ever before. But HR will not make the same hire-stop mistake again. It pulls the chair out from under the education system and creates age gaps in the workforce.