When you are searching and applying for jobs, you sometimes begin to feel that the job interview process is designed to make things hard for you to get the job you want. All the applications, all the interviews, all the questions and references… it can start to make you frustrated. You might even start wondering why the company can’t just hire you or reject you and be done with it sooner. Seen from the company’s point of view, however, the hiring process makes more sense. For a company, each hire is both an gamble and an investment. These workers will have access to the most valuable aspects of the company; the information, other employees, the customers, the physical premises. What’s more, each employee costs considerable amounts of money to train, to manage, to supervise and to turn into a productive worker. The job interview process is designed to reduce the risk of the hire, and to pick the employees that will require the least amount of investment to bring up to productive level. The procedures and questions that the company puts candidates through should help them identify the employees who can be entrusted with the future of the company as quickly and inexpensively as possible. Judged from this angle, even the bureaucracy and paperwork of the hire makes sense. These elements are a part of every job. Candidates who lose patience and refuse to complete the required steps in the job application process are likely to show that same sort of impatience and lack of persistence later on the job as well.