Found position advertised on national job board. Followed directions, submitted resume to website along with a few questions. Heard back from EWB within a few days to set up phone interview. Standard personality and fit type questions with recruiter. Within the week, received an invitation to submit a work sample before moving on. The sample was an assignment, not unusual in the industry, asking to show in some creative way how a PBJ sandwich would be created. I laid out my approach, documenting along the way to illustrate my skills in the creation and professional instruction side of the assignment. I finished, hitting the deadline with a few days to spare: I prepared a thorough dossier of end-user documentation, a video showing a test subject using the created instructions, and a rubric actively used to assess the subject's performance. There was a bit of trouble getting documents over as the video was a large mp4 file, however we managed everything using Google Drive. EWB personnel actually asked for additional copies to share with colleagues (not sure). A week or so later was asked to attend in-person interview with hiring manager and colleague. No agenda for meeting was provided or questions to be discussed so prep work was just a guess. Interview on site began on time with a tour of the facility and working spaces. Following was a 1.5 hr interview discussing the role in detail, focusing on expectations, needs, politics and resources. It became evident as interview continued that EWB was looking for a person with far more that what was publicized in the job description. I was well prepared and addressed their questions at a level consistent with the conversation. I felt I could have taken on this role and made considerable contributions, however they felt another candidate could do more of what they wanted. This may sound like sour grapes but I was more annoyed in how the rejection was handled. For the considerable amount of time I put into my preparation, I felt treated very dismissively and unprofessionally. I realize in the interview process, candidates are not owed anything; the companies with whom I have dealt with class have been more understanding and sympathetic, offering suggestions regarding interview performance, decorum and the like. Equally unprofessional was the actual advertising of the role itself. The job description was borderline misleading, even the job title stated "E-learning specialist": This implies the much of the job involves creation of e-learning training and not building the LMS architecture. There was no consideration given to supporting resources such as software and limited regarding hardware outside the LMS proper. Had this information been included in the job description, where it belonged in the candidate pre-screening process, I doubt many of those interviewed would have been involved. I know I would have given it much more scrutiny.