Hearing back from your recruiter
Posted Tuesday, March 18 2008 by The JobsBloggers
Dear JobsBlog: I know every candidate wants to hear from their recruiter as soon as possible after their interviews, but what if you've got an offer from another company or another deadline? If the recruiter doesn't get back to you within a week, should you just assume you didn't get the job?
Those are great questions! In order to make sure that you always hear back in a timely manner, please let your recruiter and recruiting coordinator know BEFORE YOUR INTERVIEWS that you have to make a decision and when you have to make it by.
Many times hiring managers or key interviewers will be a bit late in their feedback due to a release, a holiday, a vacation, a weekend, etc. It’s a recruiter's job to keep on them to make a hire or no hire decision, but please understand that things do happen. If we know you have a deadline from the start, we can make sure your interviewers know that too!
In general, we try to ensure that hiring decisions are made within the week that you interview, but if it doesn’t happen don’t assume the worst. It could be that the manager is gone, or something urgent came up. For college candidates, they could also be determining if they have openings, or if the team that you interviewed with is the best fit and the team who should be making you the offer.
Be persistent but not obsessive. Leave a phone message and send an email but don’t call every hour on the hour and hang up without leaving messages! :-) Your recruiter will get back to you as soon as possible. Just remember, we often have too many candidates to email or call you back and say “just wanted to let you know we haven’t heard anything yet.” We try to reach out when there is action or an update instead.
- Janelle
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Hello
This question applies my present status, I actually talked to my recruiter before the interview that I have to make a decision soon. I was interviewed last Thursday(3/13) so my recruiter said she will call me Friday(3/14) or at least by Monday(3/17). I actually sent a follow up mail on Friday(3/13).
But I didn't hear anything yet. Is that implied that I haven't been selected. Do normally candidates if they or they are not selected!
Actually I've got a question that doesn't involve a funny response (WHAT THE WORLD IS OUT OF SYNC?!?)
Somebody called me on a position and it hit my voicemail box. It actually turned out in my case I was having "one of those weeks" where I was so bogged down (Think 15 hour days constant with a weekend server install to boot) that I couldn't actually get back.
What would be considered a "reasonable" amount of turnabout time for a phone call (keeping in mind some of us ARE still employed in one of those insanely busy, no time to sneeze jobs).
I would assume no more than a day or so as the hiring manager has to move on right?
Now ANOTHER detail I think really does need to be added in. With this goofy hectic schedule going on with all of us, would it not be considered "reasonable" for potential recruiters to leave a phone number and e-mail address? Doing work for Microsoft, they must have a Microsoft address (which could change on the fly and is protected by Frontbridge) as well as their personal.
For some of us, picking up a cell phone and "chit chatting" during a disaster recovery session wouldn't be exactly "Professional" but you can type in an e-mail during "sit about and wait" time late at night.
Thoughts on that one?
Sean
(Oh my God, he didn't make a funny comment!) Yep happens once in a while.
Friday Funny Guy
Hello
I do not know if I need to email/call my recruiter again or not. But I do have offers that are pressing me to take decisions soon. What is best to do in this situation as I do have to take care of visa processing!
What about the process leading up to a potential interview? I've submitted a resume and had a recruiter call and leave a message for me. She mentioned someone would like to talk to me for about a half hour and mentioned that I would receive an email shortly thereafter, but I never did. She did not leave a phone number--she just told me to respond to the email that I would get if I was interested, but since I didn't get one, I called the number back and left a message explaining that I was indeed interested. Nobody has responded still.
Should I give up hope? Should I wait longer? I really didn't know where else to inquire about this. Any insight would be appreciated! Thanks.
Hi,
I have this doubt for long. In this post Janelle says that if you don't hear from your recruiter, it might be the case that she is looking for openings, etc.. I would like someone to clarify this point, as to what do you mean by looking for openings. Does MS interview candidates even when there are no opening? and if there aren't any, is the candidate rejected even if he/she is good just because there are no openings? An answer will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
This post is an ideal theory. I have some Microsoft recruiters who didn't let me know the interview result. "No response" is my answer for them.