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Original poster

to think this interview and the follow up is incredibly unprofessional

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Orlantina · 26/04/2017 11:49

There's so much I want to say about this interview. But it would be revealing. My colleagues now and were shocked.

Closing date was before Easter hols. Was for a teaching role. Interview was 3 days later - just before break up. Interview went well - and the head phoned up to say that there was still a few things to consider money wise but they were on holiday so he'd get back to me after holidays to let me know more. So it wasn't a yes, it wasn't a no, it was something...

So they're back. I emailed him last week and then rang up on Monday. And still no reply. Not even a courtesy follow up.

There's so much more to this - but they've had 10 days. I don't know what to do. Ring again?

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RedSkyAtNight · 26/04/2017 12:02

I don't think I've ever had an interview where I've been contacted in as little as 10 days, and I wouldn't even have bothered to chase by now. So I am not see any unprofessionalism.

But maybe it's different in teaching.

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Orlantina · 26/04/2017 12:05

I've had loads of interviews - and have always heard the next day in teaching. It's just what happens.

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Chocmudpie · 26/04/2017 12:12

10 days?! Thats way too long. Not sure what jobs redsky has been applying for. Longest I've ever waited for a job interview decision was about 4 days and that was a no. If its a yes usually same day/next day or a day after the last applicant has been interviewed. Definitely chase and then make ground for a complaint if you can (not sure how the teaching world works, do you complain/apply via the council or does each school have their own rules?)

highinthesky · 26/04/2017 12:13

Assume that the role has been offered elsewhere and they are awaiting an acceptance (perhaps you're the second choice). If that's the case, it would have been polite to have given you verbal feedback after the interview to let you know that you are highly appointable but were pipped to the post on this occasion.

Either that, or that he's died...

So not completely unprofessional but gives you good insight into how the head works. S/he's not a good people manager if they cannot get the basics right.

C0untDucku1a · 26/04/2017 12:14

In teaching it is usually the same day or the day after.

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Orlantina · 26/04/2017 12:14

Either that, or that he's died

I have checked the website. Still alive.

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highinthesky · 26/04/2017 12:15

PS: if you want closure, call the head proactively and say you'd value their candid feedback. You do need to know what went well, developmental points etc.

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Orlantina · 26/04/2017 12:15

TBF - he did ring me at 9pm the day after the interview to let me know that he'd let me know after Easter.

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GeekLove · 26/04/2017 12:18

My record is seven weeks and counting. But they did re-advertise the job since the position changed.

I have NEVER been offered a job within a week of the interview.

highinthesky · 26/04/2017 12:18

Am not a HR professional but have an active interest in organisational development. (Also have worked in the public sector for many years and am a long-serving school governor).

Would love to hear what went on at interview if you have the energy to commit to keyboard and PM me.

gandalfspants · 26/04/2017 12:20

So not completely unprofessional but gives you good insight into how the head works. S/he's not a good people manager if they cannot get the basics right.

This, I had similar recently where I applied through multiple courses (UCAS style) and was interviewed by 2/3. I'd heard from no. 3 saying they'd be in touch soon, but it was dragging on so I accepted one of the others and withdrew the third. Organiser contacted me weeks later to say they'd just noticed they couldn't see my app anymore and had I withdrawn (now I'll 99.9% certain the system will have sent an automated email that he's missed), because they had been planning to interview me 'in the next few weeks'. I figure I dodged a bullet there.

highinthesky · 26/04/2017 12:20

IIRC we celebrated the resurrection 10 days ago. YANBU to chase.

alphabook · 26/04/2017 12:24

I guess every sector is different but I've never had to wait longer than a week to hear back, and after that amount of time I'd assume I didn't have the job (unless they'd told me it was going to take longer, I always ask at the interview when I'm likely to hear back).

I think it's so rude to not get back to people to tell them they haven't got the job. I had an interview recently where I was asked to do a PowerPoint presentation for a not that senior or specialist role, so i put a lot of effort into it, and I never heard back from them. After a few weeks I emailed the HR person I'd been in contact with for feedback on my interview, no reply.

Moanyoldcow · 26/04/2017 12:26

We let our teachers know either way within a day or two without fail. If we are unable to appoint we tell them that.

I have heard within 2 days about any job I've had an interview for - most actually the same day. Definitely not unreasonable to chase.

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Orlantina · 26/04/2017 12:28

It's the fact that I emailed and also left a message a week after he said he'd get back to me (after they returned from Easter) and haven't had any kind of reply to that.

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Cantseethewoods · 26/04/2017 12:29

I once had someone call me 6 weeks later and be perplexed that I was no longer interested.... but coming from a family of teachers I know that in teaching the norm is that you're told pretty much immediately.

AsthmaQ · 26/04/2017 12:30

Sounds like you are their second choice candidate and they are waiting to see the response from their first choice.

eurochick · 26/04/2017 12:31

I agree with Asthma.

WannaBe · 26/04/2017 12:32

I would hazard a guess that the job had already been offered to the preferred candidate before easter but they had as yet not replied or had given reasons to not reply until after easter hence why the HT said he would get back then.

After easter the preferred candidate accepted and the HT didn't deem it necessary to contact other candidates.

I would be assuming at this stage that you hadn't got the job, tbh.

MiaowTheCat · 26/04/2017 12:46

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HateSummer · 26/04/2017 12:52

The only time I've waited a week is when I was a second choice candidate, and they couldn't get hold of the first choice. Every other job I've been offered or not I've found out the next day. 10 days is a very long time.

2ndSopranos · 26/04/2017 12:56

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Susiethetortoiseshellcat · 26/04/2017 12:57

In teaching it is generally usual to hear the next day. It sounds like a money thing. Is it a position with responsibility? Or did you have to negotiate pay? Weird anyway but schools can be a bit like that!

ShotsFired · 26/04/2017 12:59

In my younger days I applied for a p/t job in a pub, casual weekend work, that sort of thing. Had an interview/meeting, all went well.

Heard nothing, so I get a job in a different pub, no drama. Weeks, probably a month or two in fact, go by and I have been happily serving pints for ages when the first pub sends me a very sniffy letter telling me they felt I was not qualified to work in their fine establishment and would not be taking my application further.

I'm afraid my youthful indignation got the better of me and I wrote an equally snotty letter back.

highinthesky · 26/04/2017 13:05

I wasn't suitably qualified

Bollocks. If that were the case, you wouldn't have been interviewed in the first place. Another lucky escape!

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