Yes. Crapdoodle, Nora. That sucks. Especially since they interviewed him.
You know, that's the hardest thing for me too-- I have absolutely no concept of what's an acceptable length of time between, "Oh, they might still get in touch," and "I'm borked, they've filled the job and I'm a loser."
I mean, I work in publishing. Which has the strangest rules in terms of correspondence that I can think of. Example-- a friend of mine had her option book picked up by her publisher-- nearly EIGHTEEN MONTHS after submitting it. I'm still getting rejections to queries I sent out the first week of May, never mind that I've had an agent since the second week of June.
So with respect to the "regular" workforce and the process of application, I have no idea, so I have no way of reassuring Lewis that it's a normal amount of time that's elapsed. His last several jobs he's applied, interviewed, and been hired within a matter of days.
GAH.
Well crapdoodle. The job Lewis applied for in Austin has apparently been filled as the listing has disappeared off the jobsearch sites.
I'm on board with, Lewis will be THE candidate, they are just putting it through the various departments before making the offer, and offering that-long-sentence-of-hope~ma that it will be so.
ION, Gronk!
Nora and Barb - crapdoodle, indeed.
When I've been in charge of searches, I've tried to keep people informed. This past search, our HR department kept telling me they'd send out letters to tell folks the job had been filled and I was forbidden to contact candidates for fear that I'd say/write something that would somehow make them think they were getting a job offer . . . but HR still hasn't sent the letters. So I contacted the current boss for each candidate we interviewed and didn't hire and got the news to them that way, because I'm sneaky like that and I pretty much hate the HR people here.
I have no idea, so I have no way of reassuring Lewis that it's a normal amount of time that's elapsed.
I don't think there such a thing as a normal amount of time. My first serious job, it took a long time. I got a rejection letter a few weeks before I got the job.
The job Lewis applied for in Austin has apparently been filled as the listing has disappeared off the jobsearch sites.
Fuck. I'm sorry, Barb. w/r/t reasonable amount of time - this current economy has everything so very out of whack. Who knows, really?
In small world news, lisah's guitarist from SCS also applied for that job. I'm pretty sure he didn't get it, though.
So I contacted the current boss for each candidate we interviewed and didn't hire and got the news to them that way, because I'm sneaky like that and I pretty much hate the HR people here.
I totally appreciate what you're trying to do there but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that as an applicant. Did the bosses serve as references? If not, then I definitely wouldn't be okay with it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
I have no idea, so I have no way of reassuring Lewis that it's a normal amount of time that's elapsed.
Having been part of the hiring process a few times over the past year or so, there is no normal. We were very good about informing people right away if we had made a decision not to go further with them, but several times the entire interview/hiring process itself got shelved for weeks at a time due to other internal issues, whether general workload, inability to get stakeholders to weigh in, etc.
Did the bosses serve as references?
They did. We're a very small world, so I knew both of them personally, and it was a very natural thing for me to say we'd made an offer and had been accepted during the course of conversation. The applicants really needed to know where they stood, because our annual conference was this past week, and we've been asking HR to send those letters for month.
w/r/t reasonable amount of time - this current economy has everything so very out of whack. Who knows, really?
Plus there is the fun of when and how often to call for a status update shows initiative and healthy interest versus when it becomes stalkerish.
I figured it was something like that, Sparky, you being you. But without the context it kind of set off my "boundaries, Will Robinson" alarms.
