I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn, which was a first for me. She emailed me and we set a time for the following Monday for an initial phone interview. The phone interview started off pleasant enough however I'm a little burnt out on these phone interviews and generic behavioral questions (I've been interviewing quite a bit and the numerous levels of interviews is slowly killing me) and I could feel my interviewing powers failing. At the end of the interview I expected a "we'll let you know..", however she said she'd like to set up an interview with the DM or the DM who was interim at the time. She handed me off to a Recruiting Coordinator who emailed me some documents to fill out and fax in and set up a time with the DM. I quickly filled them out and faxed them in and got feedback from all my references that they had called. On Thursday I went to a local store to meet with the DM - she was a new hire to the company and had recently come from being a RM for Walmart. She was running late as she was finishing up another interview for a different position. She let me know that she was unprepared for this interview due to the fact that the recruiter had called her and asked her to take this interview. It was a pretty standard interview - behavioral questions, pleasant chat , we joked about the location, talked about retail business in Texas, yada yada yada. The whole interview took about 45 minutes, a good length, however at the end she let me know that there was a large amount of internal interest in this position and she was interviewing the ASM of that location the following day.
I shook her hand and new I'd never hear from her again.