I’m on the receiving finish of a bait and change job supply. I used to be employed to be a venture supervisor and am now successfully an administrative assistant.
The job I interviewed for was listed as a venture supervisor at a really giant firm. The job description clearly outlined expectations of a venture supervisor and appeared to completely align with my background.
In the course of the preliminary cellphone display, the recruiter requested about my experiences as a venture supervisor – however oddly, he additionally requested about my expertise with calendar administration and planning off-sites. Since I had labored at giant corporations earlier than, I knew the challenges of scheduling conferences with quite a few stakeholders and executives and figured that is what he meant. I defined that I had achieved that work in these contexts earlier than. The recruiter mentioned that 10% of the function can be these duties and “gentle admin” work, equivalent to submitting bills. A bit of involved, I attempted to make clear, and he assured me the admin work was minor. He additionally talked about that the function was open as a result of the one who beforehand had the function, “Melissa,” had moved to a different staff however was nonetheless with the corporate and really completely happy.
Subsequent interviews centered on my venture administration expertise so I wasn’t too anxious.
Nonetheless, as soon as I began the job, in my first assembly with my boss, “Kevin,” he outlined his expectations of the function and mentioned 75% of the function can be to help initiatives he assigned me to and 15% to help different staff member’s initiatives, with the remaining 10% admin work. Then he started assigning me administrative work like submitting his bills, scheduling conferences for him with others, reserving convention rooms, reserving lodge rooms, and ordering catering.
Reduce to 4 months into this job and I’m now a full-blown admin with completely no venture administration work. I’m handled by Kevin and the staff as an admin. I’m invited to conferences simply to take notes. If I try to take part in any manner (as I used to be used to doing as an precise venture supervisor), I’m dismissed or lower down. Kevin messages me to do extraordinarily trivial issues that he’s absolutely able to doing himself. I arrange conferences for him after which he promptly modifications his thoughts. Once I booked a convention room that didn’t have sufficient seats, he ordered me to go seize chairs for the others. He asks me to seize pastries and guide catering, order him lunch, guide lodges — all very admin stuff. He additionally introduced at our most up-to-date staff assembly that he had employed an individual with a venture administration background to assist with initiatives so I’m suspecting that he really has no intention of me taking over the function I used to be employed for.
Final week I met with Melissa and defined what was taking place. She nodded knowingly and mentioned that Kevin got here from an organization the place he had an EA who did all the pieces for him. Since our firm doesn’t permit EAs at his stage, he makes use of the venture supervisor function to fill that perform.
I requested her why the job description was for a venture supervisor – why not simply rent somebody with an government assistant background? She defined that HR is concerned in reviewing the job descriptions, screening candidates, and interviewing candidates as a management for stopping this from taking place. My boss is simply blatantly circumventing this by forcing the individual on this function to be an EA and it was why she left the staff to affix a special one.
Do I’ve any recourse right here? Or do I simply need to stop since this isn’t the function I signed up for?
I fear about leaving early. I’ve just a few brief stints on my resume and it’s not supreme so as to add one other one, however I don’t know that I can keep even six months with this remedy. Do I maintain out and attempt to switch internally? Is there any manner I can alert HR to what’s really taking place? Or do they know, and simply don’t care?
