How soon did you get an offer after interviewing? (employee, interview, references)

[MorkyMork]

Do most places make an offer the same day that you interviewed if they are interested in you?

[G-fused]

It varies based on a few things but in most cases people aren't extended an offer on the same day.

[davenj08]

Originally Posted by MorkyMork

Do most places make an offer the same day that you interviewed if they are interested in you?

Varies by role, industry, type of employment, seniority, company size, etc. I doubt you will be able to correlate to someone else's timing.

[MorkyMork]

So I should not take it as a bad sign? I interviewed today and am interested in the position but also have an interview tomorrow somewhere else.

I would rather just go with this place and cancel tomorrow's interview but now it's getting too late in the day to cancel.

[ChloeC]

It varies.

I had a job a few years back that literally took 5 weeks to give me the formal offer... citing the background check. I was like "really?"

My current job that I've been at for 2 years hired me about 15 minutes after I walked in the door. No background... they needed an employee to run their brand new $300,000 CNC machine that was just sitting there not making any money.

[phxone]

Getting an offer the same day you interview is very rare, I would expect it only to happen for low wage positions in the service industry.


The norm for most jobs is 1-2 weeks, if you haven't heard back after 3 weeks you probably didn't get the job.

[Jjmars]

Originally Posted by MorkyMork

So I should not take it as a bad sign? I interviewed today and am interested in the position but also have an interview tomorrow somewhere else.

I would rather just go with this place and cancel tomorrow's interview but now it's getting too late in the day to cancel.

Take the interview tomorrow and use it for experience. This stuff is invaluable. I know it's tedious but totally worth it.

[joe from dayton]

Originally Posted by MorkyMork

Do most places make an offer the same day that you interviewed if they are interested in you?

No.

[Girl]

For my current employer, it took them just over a month. However I took it as a good sign when they began calling my references 2-3 weeks post-interviews. They had a LOT of candidates to weed through and so I knew it would take a while if I got an offer.

I continued sending out resumes on the off-chance I did not get an offer (I felt REALLY good about the interviews, so was 99% confident I'd get an offer).

Go to the interview tomorrow and go into it trying to get the job - if you half-@ss it because you really want the OTHER job, they'll sense you aren't into it and think you aren't really interested.

[MorkyMork]

Well, now I have yet another interview (phone screen) which I scheduled for next week. I applied to around 30 jobs but I certainly don't want to go to that many interviews. These positions are all accounting/finance related. One is a cpa firm, one is a company and the 3rd one is a state job.