Shortlisting

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If a job advert says they are short-listing on a certain day is that the day they contact you for interview or the day they decide who to interview and then they contact you the next day?

Does this make sense?

So say the advert says shortlisting on the 10th. Would they invite candidates to interview on the 10th or would they just decide to interview them on the 10th and contact them on the 11th.

Cheers.

that's a funny way of saying it.
it isn't clear is it, but I suppose it means they'll tell you? because shortlisting isn't interviewing, that's selecting isn't' it.

Oh I know that I know its selecting/contacting, I mean do they contact the candidates on the shortlisting day or do they shortlist on one day and contact on the next?

Shortlisting on the 10th means just that - they are doing their shortlisting on that day. It doesn't give any indication as to when or how they will communicate that decision. They might ring people on the 10th, they may not have time and may do it on the 11th, they may write or email. Up to them.

oh I see
god knows, that is useless information if it is as flowery described, what is the point of knowing when they are selecting and not when they tell you?

I hate HR people

Ok. Waiting waiting then.

Thanks for the quick replies.

In my experience of shortlisting we've always invited to interview (by phone) the same day, although if it's late we might leave it to the next day. I guess some places will write rather than phone with interview arrangements and not ring at all, and the letters would probably go out the following day.

Plenty of 'point' knowing. It means you don't keep ringing expecting an answer before that date for one thing.

Perhaps they are not able to commit to telling people on a specific date because they don't know whether shortlisting will finish before the end of the working day.

Perhaps there wasn't enough room on the ad to give both the date of shortlisting and the date people can expect to be informed.

Perhaps HR don't make decisions about when managers will communicate their own decisions.

why don't they give the date they will inform?
that would stop the phone calls
and would be actually USEFUL

who cares when they shortlist?

See reasons given earlier as to why they may not be able to commit to an exact date to inform people.

What's the big deal? Giving a shortlisting date is useful to most people because it means they know not to expect to hear anything before then and don't sit by the phone. If you don't care when people are shortlisting for a position you are applying for, and don't find that information useful, disregard the information.