The progress was lengthy (due to the COVID-19 outbreak) but I was committed to sticking around. I had a short phone interview with a recruiter that was a very basic conversation about the role and my experience. The next round was supposed to be in-store however this is when the COVID-19 started to break out in the United States. We originally scheduled a 2 hour long interview in the store but ended up switching it to an hour long video interview with multiple people that went deeper into how my past experience would benefit the role and behavioral questions. That interview went well but because of the outbreak they didn’t know next steps. This is when everything went downhill....ikea closed stores due to the outbreak and I was pretty sure they would cancel this position as it was a new role the company was adding into all stores at the same time. They had planned training to be over a set time where you would have to travel. I was fully ready at this point to hear from ikea they were postponing the entire thing yet they persisted on. They decided they wanted to schedule another video interview where we would have to do a “virtual store tour” over a computer. I was told to prep a portfolio and have it to the recruiter a week in advance. I prepped it the weekend before only to receive a call that Monday after that ikea was canceling the role for the foreseeable future....while the outbreak threw a wrench into their plan ikea really strung along the candidates “trying to make it work” when they should’ve looked at the big picture and just postponed it from the beginning. I wasted almost 2 months chasing this role and even turned down another in the process.