More employers should tell people if they're unsuccessful

[ChimneySweepLiverpool]

I did an interview last week for a panel. The interview took 1 hour and 10 minutes, was pretty full on. They were very positive towards me. Its a more junior role than the one I currently have but I want to leave management as I'm currently in quite a toxic environment.

They said I would hear early this week. Monday and Tuesday I jumped every time my phone rang or made a noise. I'm assuming now I didn't get it and I wish they had emailed to tell me. They are a small team but one of the panel was a HR representative so I'm assuming part of her role is to email unsuccessful candidates.

I email every person who comes for an interview. The company I interviewed for have just received a large amount of funding for hiring and I'd love to work for them if I didn't get this role, but I'm put off by the lack of communication now

you dodged a bullet as doesn’t reflect well on the company

did you apply through a vacancy or headhunted? if so i’d contact whomever you’ve been dealing with

I applied for an internal position and had an interview over a week ago.
Still no news despite saying the decision would be made quickly.
Yesterday I emailed HR asking for an outcome but it's truly left me with a sour taste in my mouth and I'm a current employee fgs!

I agree it is so incredibly rude to not inform unsuccessful candidates.

As it’s Thursday, why don’t you call or email them? Just in case someone is off sick or something. Sounds like you have nothing to lose.

My Ds has been going for interviews - he has so often not received any response .

That said a few years ago I got a job . The first person who was offered the job turned it down so was offered to me . I only found this out some time later . I think this is why some people don’t tell you.

I think I will send an email to the HR rep who arranged my interview

I was pretty confident I had a really good chance of getting the job

I agree they often contact the first choice and then send the rejections once they've accepted but it's been 8 working days since the interview so I would rather know

Got an automatic reply saying she is now on annual leave until next week. I'm going to assume they offered someone the job before she went on leave

It is really annoying, OP. Been there a few times.
As a rule of thumb, if you don't get offered the job in 48 hours, then assume it is a goner.

She has since replied saying she will chase this up for me by the end of the week..... surely you know if I am being offered the job or not?

Seems disorganised!

Sometimes they have to wait on HR giving the green light or maybe another candidate has asked to move dates and hasn’t been seen yet so they can’t make a decision? Trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here but I know both of these things have held up recruitment in my team many times.

Yes rude. I temped in a builders. My colleague was saying he took ages to get back to people after interviews. Lax

They said they've delayed offering the position until early next week so I guess I have to just breath and wait!

It's not unusual for the hiring decision not to be signed off for a week or two after the interviews. And that's without any of the short list requesting a reschedule/postponement. It's my experience that any organization big enough to have an HR department is unlikely to make fast hiring decisions.

My sons GF was offered an internal role 14 days post interview - it does happen

It annoys me a lot. Not me but my poor DS. He mainly doesn't get interviews, then when he does, he gets told he'll hear in a few days, then nothing, ever.
At the beginning I thought it was accidental - maybe they'd "lost" his number, etc. but it does seem to be the way of the world now.
Sometimes they contact his referees even ... still nothing.
It happened to me once and I am still annoyed about years later.

If it is going to be a couple of weeks before you get an answer, say that at interview. No harm in being advised sooner.

Well, if they do offer it to you make sure that you take at least a week to decide!

Or join the ‘Waiting to hear’ thread in the Work topic. A helpful bunch of MNers.

I once waited 4 weeks for a2nd interviews the woman thought that it was my first. Then waited 4 weeks to get an offer…massive well known company (everyone has heard of them). Stayed for 4 years but they were always chasing their tails.

I got fed up of driving 25 mile round trip to interviews/assessments and got told nothing.

Plus know I don’t like taking criticism, but if potential employers told me what was lacking - which I could use to improve chances in later interviews.

It's disconcerting enough when you don't hear back from an initial application. But not hearing back from an interview is poor. I mean how many people are they interviewing that they can't let candidates know?

You’re in management now? Surely you know how slow the hiring process can be and that it never happens as quickly as anyone wants it to (including the managers!)

I think the best advice while interviewing is to do your best during the interview then move on and push it out of your mind because it won’t be quick process. My DH was offered a position 3 years after he interviewed! It is an unusual but typical timeframe for his industry.

Yeah, it’s really rude. By interview stage you’ve put time, effort and emotion into it; it’s so shit not to communicate with people like that.

Really rude. I always called if I didn't hear back, and asked for feedback. Emails can be too easily ignored.

Equally, when I was recruiting I always phoned unsuccessful candidates and gave truthful feedback on why they had been unsuccessful. It takes such a short amount of time but means people aren't hanging on in limbo.

In our small company I usually offer within 24/48 hours if someone is good but that's because I usually want to snap them up. Our HR lady does the actual calls

This company is a similar size, maybe 12 staff, so when they said I'd know within a week I got excited/nervous