I’m on the receiving finish of a bait and change job provide. I used to be employed to be a venture supervisor and am now successfully an administrative assistant.

The job I interviewed for was listed as a venture supervisor at a really massive firm. The job description clearly outlined expectations of a venture supervisor and appeared to completely align with my background.

Throughout the preliminary telephone display screen, the recruiter requested about my experiences as a venture supervisor – however oddly, he additionally requested about my expertise with calendar administration and planning off-sites. Since I had labored at massive corporations earlier than, I knew the challenges of scheduling conferences with quite a few stakeholders and executives and figured that is what he meant. I defined that I had performed that work in these contexts earlier than. The recruiter mentioned that 10% of the position can be these tasks and “mild admin” work, comparable to submitting bills. A bit involved, I attempted to make clear, and he assured me the admin work was minor. He additionally talked about that the position was open as a result of the one that beforehand had the position, “Melissa,” had moved to a different staff however was nonetheless with the corporate and really joyful.

Subsequent interviews targeted my venture administration expertise so I wasn’t too apprehensive.

Nonetheless, as soon as I began the job, in my first assembly with my boss, “Kevin,” he outlined his expectations of the position and mentioned 75% of the position can be to assist initiatives he assigned me to and 15% to assist different staff member’s initiatives, with the remaining 10% admin work. Then he started assigning me administrative work like submitting his bills, scheduling conferences for him with others, reserving convention rooms, reserving lodge rooms, and ordering catering.

Reduce to 4 months into this job and I’m now a full-blown admin with completely no venture administration work. I’m handled by Kevin and the staff as an admin. I’m invited to conferences simply to take notes. If I try and take part in any approach (as I used to be used to doing as an precise venture supervisor), I’m dismissed or lower down. Kevin messages me to do extraordinarily trivial issues that he’s absolutely able to doing himself. I arrange conferences for him after which he promptly modifications his thoughts. Once I booked a convention room that didn’t have sufficient seats, he ordered me to go seize chairs for the others. He asks me to seize pastries and ebook catering, order him lunch, ebook resorts — all very admin stuff. He additionally introduced at our most up-to-date staff assembly that he had employed an individual with a venture administration background to assist with initiatives so I’m suspecting that he actually has no intention of me taking up the position I used to be employed for.

Final week I met with Melissa and defined what was occurring. She nodded knowingly and mentioned that Kevin got here from an organization the place he had an EA who did all the pieces for him. Since our firm doesn’t enable EAs at his stage, he makes use of the venture supervisor position to fill that operate.

I requested her why the job description was for a venture supervisor – why not simply rent somebody with an government assistant background? She defined that HR is concerned in reviewing the job descriptions, screening candidates, and interviewing candidates as a management for stopping this from occurring. My boss is simply blatantly circumventing this by forcing the particular person on this position to be an EA and it was why she left the staff to affix a special one.

Do I’ve any recourse right here? Or do I simply need to stop since this isn’t the position I signed up for?

I fear about leaving early. I’ve just a few brief stints on my resume and it’s not perfect so as to add one other one, however I don’t know that I can keep even six months with this therapy. Do I maintain out and attempt to switch internally? Is there any approach I can alert HR to what’s truly occurring? Or do they know, and simply don’t care?