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Topic: Long Wait Time on Job Offer
| Author | Message |
| 1978 | Posted – 7/3/2007 2:25:28 PM | show profile Overobsessing, but wondering: after an interview, and a ref. check, how long can it take to either hear back or get an offer? It's been a month since the initial interview but I know they haven't hired anyone yet. Also, is it standard practice these days to just not get back to someone if he doesn't get the job? Is it time for me to give up and move on already? |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/3/2007 3:18:21 PM | show profile Call them and ask what the status is. |
| Ms. Write | Posted – 7/3/2007 3:38:30 PM | show profile It can take that long these days to make a hiring decision (even longer!), but since a month has gone by, it couldn't hurt to call and ask for an update. I'd only call once, though--you don't want to come off as desperate. And yes, they should tell you if you didn't get the job, but some people are just too chicken to make that uncomfortable call and instead hope the rejected applicants have moved on. |
| 1978 | Posted – 7/3/2007 4:45:50 PM | show profile Yes, did call a week or so ago but haven't heard back, which leads me to to believe that's my answer. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/3/2007 5:43:27 PM | show profile Ooh, yeah. If you called a week ago, that's not a good sign. Keep trucking along. If you didn't get the job it just means it wasn't a good fit. Sigh...every day it becomes clearer and clearer to me how much job-hunting is like dating. |
| 1978 | Posted – 7/3/2007 6:42:06 PM | show profile Job hunting IS like dating! Exhausting and painful, yet sometime exhilerating :) |
| younged12 | Posted – 7/6/2007 9:11:26 AM | show profile dude the same thing is happening to me. i don't know what to do and i'm not desperate but i like to follow up because i don't believe that someone shouldn't have to ignore you if you didn't get the job. really, that's just not fair. but, since no one else has gotten the job yet i'm just in the same boat as you. very depressing... |
| thelittleguy | Posted – 7/6/2007 9:46:56 AM | show profile it can take forever... at my previous job, nearly one year elapsed between meeting with the bosses and getting hired. one year! so, keep looking... but hang in there, too. |
| mailbag | Posted – 7/6/2007 10:23:01 AM | show profile | email poster 1978 -- have had better luck with dating. Liking each other "a lot" isn't even required for planning a weekend romantic-esque getaway. lol. With jobs, if you aren't pre-packaged perfect - forget it... you don't even get an e-mail. |
| beachbum | Posted – 7/6/2007 4:44:45 PM | show profile that's true, dating is much easier LOL. it's not a good sign that a week passed and they didn't get back to you. but... it's not a total loss yet. if i were you i would keep job hunting and see what happens. don't call or email that company again, though. the ball is in their park. they might be undecided, or they might be waiting on a response from candidate #1, etc. who knows... better not to think about it, it's like wondering why a date hasn't called yet. good luck! |
| Telling It Like It Is | Posted – 7/8/2007 4:53:35 AM | show profile | email poster SOUNDS LIKE MY LIFE ONLY I DID GET A CALL...... Alright how weird is this? I interviewed for a editorial position and two weeks later, the Publisher/Editor called to ask me....if I wanted the job? NO! To ask me if I was still interested in the position. She left a message on my machine stating how great I was & how she was sitting there thinking of projects I could be working on & was very complimentary on the answering maching. I returned the call thinking I was going to be made A JOB OFFER, but no, she just said she was wondering if I was still interested in the position & I said in a positive way that I was & that I had e-mailed her my references. She said she would get back to me the next week WHICH SHE DID NOT. So, not wanting to seem desperate I waited two weeks then gave a call & since the receptionist says that she is voice mail, she just takes the messages which is odd. Yes, she is the gatekeeper. So I let her know that I had interviewed for the position & I was touching base, etc. No call back. So I called back two weeks later & said that I left a message & hadn't heard back from the Publisher yet & the receptionist said that she has been very busy. I asked if the position had been filled yet & she said it had not. That was two weeks ago & still no call back. Now when I interviewed for this position, it had been vacant for FOUR MONTHS. Now it has been vacant for Seven. The publisher at the time was adament on me spilling the beans on how much I made at my last job. Not just adament but pushy. Then she mentioned something about getting interns once they have had some of their summer break. Is she thrifty? Is she in a coma? WHY DID SHE CALL ME JUST TO SEE IF I WAS STILL INTERESTED IN THE POSITION? WHAT WAS THAT? AND WHY HASN'T SHE HAD THE PROFESSIONALISM TO CALL ME BACK SINCE? What the, what the? Advice really needed. Oh and I am looking elsewhere. I have an interview this Monday at a magazine but still cannot understand why someone would dangle a piece of cheesecake in front of me then pull it away. Was this for laughs or is she on meds or does she need meds? And don't say that possibly there was a family emergency because I worked @ a family agency where there were several unexpected deaths and business still has to go on, calls were returned and clients were still seen to as difficult as it was. So what is this woman's prob? |
| 1978 | Posted – 7/9/2007 4:40:04 PM | show profile i finally did hear back ... and obv did not get the job, though it was a very nice rejection from the editor. still, a nice rejection does not equal a job, which is what i wanted! must keep looking. |
| WinonaWriter | Posted – 7/9/2007 5:28:41 PM | show profile livinginitaly, if they call to offer you the job, don't take it -- unless of course you want to deal with this same situation any and every time you ever need an answer on anything from your boss! sounds like she is too busy for her own good! (or for the company's own good!) |
| GA>ME | Posted – 7/9/2007 11:44:11 PM | show profile yeah, that stinks. i've had that. i can understand not replying to applications, but to have the applicant go to the trouble of going out to interview, usually taking the day off, preparing, and then never getting back to them is insultingly lazy (pardon that sentence construction). |
