How long should I wait to hear about a Job?

Hi,

I started a thread a few weeks ago on Direct and personal Questions at an interview.

this thursday will be 4 weeks since that interview.
I just want to know is that a very long time to wait to hear back word about whether I was successful or not?

I mailed the guy this day 2 weeks ago and he said to bear with him for just a few more days.

I think its appaling to leave candidates waiting more than 2 weeks, never mind four.
I'm wondering should I make more contact or just assume the worst at this stage.

Any advice?

Very, very hard to know. It depends on how busy people are and it varies a lot from company to company. I know that for my current job I was waiting nearly 3 weeks and was told afterwards that they had made up their mind on the day.

I think that the old adage " No news is good news" applies.......

4 weeks .... chances are you are not successful.


In general ... when you find a good candidate you tend to "move" on them quickly ... you make the offer or set up the next stage of interviews quickly ..ie within a couple of days of a week.

A month without feedback in 90-95% cases means a "no".


There are exceptional cases .... such as a very specialised technical role or a very senior role or sometimes government run organisations can be slow and drawn in their recruitment process ...

Why not call the recruiter of hr person in the company and ask if you have been successful ... you might find out why there's a delay (you can always say you have a job offer elsewhere and just wanted to know what was happening) .... so i'd call just out of curiousity if nothing else.

Hi james99

I sent the guy I've been dealing with a mail today.
I got his autoreply saying he's on holiday from 02nd may to 18th may.
so hopefully thats whats holding it up.

fingers crossed, he may get back to me when he returns,

thanks,

Hi ci1
I would have to agree with other posters here. Guy obviously knew in advance that he wold be on leave until 18th May, thereby pushing it out to nearly 6 weeks before you'd get a response. Poor show not to respond back to you. My hunch would be that they may have offered the job to someone else and are keeping you on standby in case that doesn't work out. I don't mean to sound harsh, and hopefully I'm wrong, you sound very keen on this job, but I think the time may have come to go back to the drawing board and look at other opportunities on the job front. Good luck anyway

I'm still waiting for a response from an interview I had in 2001!!!

Whatever about not acknowledging applications, not coming back to you after an interview is so unprofessional!!

Hey, I can beat that. Interview in 1998 and never heard anything. Mind you, interviewed the interviewer some years later...he didn't get the job.

Why don't you telephone and ask to speak to hr...no point in emailing, you just won't get an answer. At elast by telephone, you can probe a bit.

But why would you want a job in a place where they ask personal questions and don't get back to you?

Somebody must be taking care of this guys workload whilst away.


Phone, say ideally they remain your first choice, v interested but you have at least one alternative job offer in same industry want to know where your app stands.

I thought 10 days was long.

Once you get to interview stage no reason for this kind of undue deqly. Lack of professionalism on his part to neglect to mention he;d be on leave.