To think my son didn't get the job - over a week since his interview and not a word.

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My 17 year old son was interviewed for a lifeguard position at our local lesiure centre on Wednesday last week.

It was a proper recruitment process - a long council application form, then an interview and a promise he'd hear by 'early next week'.

I'd assume early next week was Monday or Tuesday (just gone) but still nothing. He's emailed to ask when he is likely to hear and hasn't had a reply.

I've told him it's unlikely he's got the job at this point, but tbh, I really thought as it was a council interview etc and he was interviewed, that he'd have been told one way or another.

They may have offered it to someone else and are waiting confirmation of their acceptance before cutting loose their back-up options.

Has he followed up??

Yes, I agree with previous post. When they said you'll hear early next week, they meant they would offer the job to number 1 candidate on Monday, but keep the others hanging on until number 1 candidate had confirmed acceptance etc. So it does sound as if he's not number 1.

If they said that he would hear ‘early next week’, I’d assume Monday or Tuesday. If the post was offered to another candidate, that would surely have been either of those days, so if anyone turned it down, I’d expect it to be offered to the next on the list on Tuesday or Wednesday. I think he’s done what he can in following up with an email and in my opinion, it’s rude not to respond, both to the email and to the interview.

He’s learning a hard lesson unfortunately.

Yeah really hard lesson.

I was quite pleased his first interview was for a council as I really thought they'd see the whole process through properly!

i wouldn’t assume just yet, perhaps the had someone who had to rearrange an interview
perhaps there recruitment process is actually really rubbish

how long has it been since he emailed to ask when he’d know?

He emailed yesterday.

The interview seemed to go really well at the time.

Honesty it could be either he’s passed the interview but wasn’t number one candidate (likely they would have sent a decline email if he hadn’t passed at all) or it’s just the council and everything is super slow. No way of knowing really. We’re not the council and generally work at 100 miles an hour but have known recruitment super slowly.