CauseForce Interview Questions
& Process

This role involves working closely with event participants, offering them support to improve and succeed with their fundraising efforts, making sure everything goes well as the event gets closer. The job mainly uses phone and in-person interactions.

I found out about this 'opportunity' through a recruiter. I read the Glassdoor reviews, so I was a bit concerned about the bad reviews. My recruiter encouraged me to ask about what I had read if I had any concerns. First interview was via phone - pretty easy. It was supposed to be with 2 people, but it was only 1 person. Then the second interview was a presentation via Skype. I don't understand why they did this, considering I live in the same city as they are located. Third interview was another phone interview with the same person (for the 3rd time) and someone from their office back east. In every interview, they never fully answered any questions about who they were, what the work style was like, who the team was etc... they kept dodging all the questions, so it doesn't seem quite legit. I asked them about the bad reviews on Glassdoor and the response I got was 'those are the other offices, the Vancouver office is great'... that's not really answering my question. The interviewer would not give me any straight up answers for questions about the company and the work place. It was actually quite frustrating, as all they seemed to care about was your own personal experience with cancer, so that they could exploit that for their cause. Yes, the Ride to Conquer Cancer is a great fundraiser, but CAUSEFORCE is a BS company that doesn't really seem to care about who you are (as a potential employee) or what you are looking for -- just how to exploit you and use you to help them make money - by ways of telling you how 'you're doing this for a great cause'. Interview never gave any specifics about working hours (apparently depends on you???) or benefits of the company, or holidays or anything... all very vague. I only asked these questions, as the bad reviews on here make it sound like they don't give any benefits or compensation for work paid -- so I wanted to clarify... but clearly they don't... so after the 3rd interview, I said forget it... not interested. Complete waste of my time, because they wanted to do a FOURTH interview? Seriously? I mentioned this my recruiter who also thought it was quite absurd, considering that he had previously placed others in 2 or 3 interviews.

I had an interview set up through a temp agency. They told me the position was for a nonprofit, which I later informed them was extremely misleading. Causeforce preys on people. They are all about profit. I was initially kept waiting for over 20 minutes past my appointment time, sitting awkwardly in a chair next to the receptionist. There were dogs everywhere. It looked like a really nice office environment. Finally, I was taken to a back room for the interview. The interviewer was unprepared, told me he had just started a few weeks prior, and asked me to sell him something I was passionate about. That's lazy. At least it wasn't a paperclip. I asked if the office in the main area is where I would be, and he said no and lead me through the hall to a small dark room with the shades all pulled that was much more cramped and screamed "telemarketing gig." Make no mistake, their call center rep job is telemarketing. You are there to sell their product, all under the guise of doing good. I told him at the end of the interview that it wasn't the job it was advertised as and that I wasn't interested, so I'm not sure if I would have gotten an offer or not.

The entire hiring process took about two weeks. A week after I applied, I received an email from HR for a brief phone chat where they asked me to summarize my experience and explain my motivation for joining the company. Following that, I was sent an email to schedule an in-person interview with the department manager. I attended this interview the next week and got a job offer a few days later.