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Should i follow up after an interview2/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Or you can be perfect but they decide at the last minute that they really need to go with someone who speaks Flemish. You can be a stunningly perfect candidate for the job, and then another candidate can come along who’s even stronger. It’s really impossible to tell from the outside what might be going on that could massively mess with their hiring plans or hiring timeline.įor candidates, this means that no matter how well your interview went, you should always avoid the trap of thinking a job is a lock, because hiring is never a sure thing. Maybe they’ve had a project explode spectacularly and that’s all anyone over there is dealing with right now. Maybe a key person on the team resigned and now they’re thinking about reconfiguring the role. Maybe the CEO announced at the last minute that she wants to sign off on the final hire, and they’re debating whether to bring people back in for final interviews. Maybe a last-minute candidate emerged and they need time to interview them. Maybe the hiring manager is out sick, or unexpectedly had to go out of town. Plus, you never know what’s going on behind-the-scenes. So they often have other, higher priorities.) (Since this is a common point of confusion: “hiring manager” means the person who will be managing you once you’re hired, not the person who’s in charge of all the organization’s hiring. That’s not a great practice, of course - ideally they’d write back to say, for example, “Things are taking longer than we expected but I should be in touch in another week or two.” But realistically, hiring managers are busy and often pulled in a bunch of directions, and hiring can end up lower on their list than work projects with pressing deadlines now. ![]() ![]() Why do employers leave candidates hanging?Īn awful lot of employers simply don’t bother to contact candidates until they have something definite to say, even when they’re well past the timeline they told you to expect. This, of course, leaves candidates frantically checking their missed calls and wondering if they’re still in consideration, or if no one bothered to tell them they’ve been rejected. And some employers never get back to candidates at all, instead just full-on ghosting them even after multiple rounds of interviews. Even employers who provide candidates with a very precise timeline for when they plan to be in touch (“we will reach out to all applicants no later than the 15th”) often miss their promised deadlines - sometimes by a lot - without bothering to update you. If there’s one experience nearly every job seeker has, it’s this one. Should you reach back out? Is the silence a bad sign? And for the love of god, why are they putting you through this? The employer told you to expect to hear something in a week … but now two weeks have gone by and you’ve heard nothing. You had a great job interview, seemed to connect with your interviewer, and left feeling good about your chances. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photos: Getty Images ![]()
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