Interview but no outcome

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Hope to get some advice, i am feeling very fed up!! Applied for a job, filled out the personal statement which was a long one as, got invited to the interview, spent about a day prepping and took a day off work as annual leave what to attend. I have heard nothing. GUTTED. I would have loved the job and it is well within my skill set.

Would you contact the company or just write off as experience and a lucky escape? This has happened before but i am totally pissed of that a large company, as this one was, cant even be arsed to provide an outcome. Totally unprofessional and bad behaviour. Not sure why i am so upset, sick of people's lack of respect and basic business manners.

Any suggestions as i cant shake this off?

How long ago was it?

Over 2 weeks ago.

I'm completely with you, it is just so rude to do this. In these days of digital communication it is so easy to send a quick email saying 'sorry not this time' (obviously it's better to offer a phone call and full feedback/de-brief but something is better than nothing), it beggars belief that companies can't be bothered. A lot of HR systems will even send a template email for you at the click of the button so even saves the effort of typing it out...The worst I had was a 6 week wait after the end of a very long and multi-stage process entailing several days off work, heard nothing, then finally got a printed letter (?!) on very nice stiff headed paper saying basically 'no thanks and don't contact us for any feedback, we won't give any' - weird!

At a push what may have happened, depending on how long it's been, is that you are their 2nd or 3rd choice candidate and they are keeping you on 'hold' whilst waiting for references. etc on their 1st choice but it's still bloody rude not to tell you so IMO.

I would contact the recruiting manager or their HR department for an update. If they say it's a no and they just haven't bothered to tell you, depending on whether you can afford to burn bridges with the company, perhaps send them a brief to the point note saying that as you freely gave up your time and energy to participate in their process, you find it unprofessional and discourteous to not at least tell you the outcome and you will not be applying for any future vacancies? Might just make you feel better?

Two weeks is too long. We aim to give feedback within 5 working days - we often do several interviews and that can take a few days to get through everyone. If we go over three days we always send out a "sorry, still working on it" note to the candidates.

Thank you for your reply, i am glad it is not just me being arsey or having too high expectations. Maybe I will e mail them, my husband said i should do that but part of me thinks no, that is their part of the process. I have interviewed loads and loads of people and i would never not give an outcome of an interview. I would be trouble with work if i didnt.

I might leave to a little longer and send an e mail maybe next week xx

I have always sent holding statements if the outcome is taking longer to reach!!! Tbh, if i e mail it will be very to the point and if i burn bridges then so be it....

This is so common and completely rude. Who on earth doesn't know that the candidates are going to be sitting at home chewing their fingernails off wondering on the outcome.

I've had one role where I got to second stage, had the final interview and heard nothing. After a week and assuming it was a no but wanting to be sure, I plucked up the temerity to email the recruiting manager only to get her out of office telling me she had gone on holiday.

I wouldn’t leave it any longer, two weeks is long enough be strong and challenge them ask for feedback to help you in the future

I would not even bother to ask for feedback, if they haven't even got back to you with an outcome they are clearly not bothered about you and will probably give you the 'another candidate had more relevant experience/was a better fit' line.

Unfortunately this seems to be increasingly common. Some companies just don't care that they're giving a terrible impression.

I had FIVE interviews with a big name global consultancy, who wanted me to move to another continent at very short notice for a 12 month contract there. It was all very urgent, lots of senior people were involved and they had me jumping through hoops. After my 5th interview, I never heard from them again. I emailed my HR contact there and they never replied. That was before Easter. I guess I didn't get the job. Some feedback would have been appreciated though.

Hundredmilesanhour

That's outrageous and sadly all too common. Would you really want to work for a company who made you jump through hoops and didn't have the decency to let you know either way.

Same thing happened to me at an NHS hospital of all places!! Totally ghosted me. So so rude

Would you really want to work for a company who made you jump through hoops and didn't have the decency to let you know either way.

No, I wouldn't. To be honest, I wouldn't normally consider interviewing for these morons (they're a second rate competitor of my former employer) so it irks me even more. But my job was cut just before Christmas and roles in my industry are few and far between so desperate times means I'm having to lower my standards massively. I hate that employers thinks it's acceptable to treat people so badly. But there's such a glut of candidates on the market, they can get away with. I hope karma gets them in the end.

I know this is not a current thread, was going to start my own but then saw this one.

I had an iv last Wednesday, haven't heard back yet. I think they were still iv until possibly last Friday.

I am so stressed and anxious, partly because I really really really want this job because local part time jobs very are few and far between. And also because I hate where I am.

Also we will be away for 3 weeks from Monday and I'd really like to know before then either way.

Should I call and ask when I might hear purely because i won't be around for 3 weeks in an area with v limited internet/phone access.

If it's a no I'd just like to know before I go away so I'm not stewing on holiday and can take full advantage of the free drinks on the flight to drown my sorrows

Dimsum - no harm in you calling at all.

This has happened to DD twice now. Big companies in London. It would take minutes to send a quick group email to unsuccessful applicants saying 'thanks for attending but no thanks', with perhaps an offer to give brief feedback if required.

She invested in interview clothes, read up on the company, practiced her answers, bought a ticket and travelled an hour each way.

Makes my blood boil. She had to stop me sending a shitty email on her behalf berating her HR contact for having no manners after the last one. What's worse is she's temping locally (fresh out of Uni) and has to take time off unpaid.

@Redcliff thank you. I wouldn't normally contact them but I'd feel so stressed during the hol in case they were trying to contact me that I feel I have to.

TooOld (me too!), that is so rude, unprofessional and lazy when like you say a group email would take 2 minutes to send.

Such a horrible and expensive and disheartening experience for your daughter. Hope it doesn't put her off applying for more jobs. At least she'll know what to expect, and it won't be so upsetting next time. Shame it has come to this though. It seems people aren't seen as individuals anymore. Just some amorphous mass.

You should ALWAYS ask at interview when you can expect to hear of their decision and call if you don't hear back.

A colleague of us almost missed on a role because the HR person who was due to inform them that they'd got the job left a message on the wrong mobile number (one digit off). She told the manager that the person never called back and it was assumed they had decided the job wasn't for them. He was about to contact the second candidate and offer them the job but thankfully candidate 1 called to ask for feedback and that's where the error came to light.

A rare event but you never know what can go wrong.

Contact them. Either they are waiting for someone senior to sign off the decision, which can take forever (especially in public sector), or you are 2nd/3rd choice and they are waiting for first choice to confirm or reject the role.

I've got a couple jobs either from having nice chat with the manager who finally told first choice to go away if they couldn't make up their mind, or similar nice chat when they've ended up mentioning a similar job that's come up, so worth talking to them.

I am going to call them today. Or email.

They did say at the iv they would make a decision by Tuesday/Wednesday. But then they also said their HR dept are v slow and can take days/weeks to action something.

I'm assuming I'd hear from HR rather than the manager who interviewed me as it was HR who called to offer the interview.

I'd say though that in at least 90% of cases companies have got back to me later than they said they would even when I've been offered the job.

Perhaps I've always been the 2nd choice candidate but hopefully not!