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I have been waiting on job offers with nothing. I did an email follow up with a woman and she told me it would be a few weeks. It has been a few weeks, no rejection letter or anything like I have usually gotten by now so do I email again? or is that just too needy and annoying? I know they say if someone wants you bad enough they will keep in contact. But do I really have anything to lose if I email again?
by recontacting, you will seem needy and annoying, and if you feel like you have nothing to lose by recontacting go ahead.
If you really have the strong, strong urge perhaps make a phone call and advise them you are looking at another offer and want to know if you are a front-runner candidate or if you should put aside your interest in their company. I am always honest with candidates who approach me in that manner b/c I don't want to see anyone lose opportunities if we have ruled them out.
by recontacting, you will seem needy and annoying, and if you feel like you have nothing to lose by recontacting go ahead.
If you really have the strong, strong urge perhaps make a phone call and advise them you are looking at another offer and want to know if you are a front-runner candidate or if you should put aside your interest in their company. I am always honest with candidates who approach me in that manner b/c I don't want to see anyone lose opportunities if we have ruled them out.
I don't want to lose out on an opportunity by rushing them and I don't want to look needy and annoying (although I am needy). If they want me they'll contact me, if they don't then I'll just continue looking like I have been. A few weeks in business may not be a few weeks for the unemployed. They've got other things they are doing, and there are about 10 other jobs they are hiring for as well. I'll sit tight, as hard as it is to do!
Just keep looking until you have a job offer in hand from this company or another one. A few weeks to you may mean 3 weeks, to the hiring manager, it may mean 6 weeks. Keep searching.
Once you have a job offer, call companies you preferred and tell them that you were offered a job but you prefer their company.
If they were interested in you but merely too busy to finalize an offer, they might quickly make a counter offer. If not, you've lost nothing because you have another job offer anyway.
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It often does take time. For our current opening, we had 15 applicants and interviewed 3. We didn't consider that enough to choose from so then opened it back up and got another 40+ applicants of which we'll interview another 5 or 6. The first 3 are still in the running. This has been going on now since before Christmas.
We simply want to get the best possible person for the job and while it's hard to get the work done short handed, it's even harder to clean up after someone that doesn't know what they are doing.
Once you have a job offer, call companies you preferred and tell them that you were offered a job but you prefer their company.
If they were interested in you but merely too busy to finalize an offer, they might quickly make a counter offer. If not, you've lost nothing because you have another job offer anyway.
I strongly disagree. I had a friend who did that( and this was years ago when the economy was better). They told her "we wish you the best with Company B".
After two interviews she got impatient and removed herself unintentionally from the job with Company A.
You try that now in this economy and chances are very good they will tell you "best of luck with Company B".
Back in 1978 I did a call back to let the person who interviewed me know that I really would like to work for her. I was hired and worked for her until she died. Now I am retired from the place after 28 years working there. When you are looking for a job, I don't think you can be too eager. Some people like to have their egos stroked or they may be trying to decide and it always helps to let them know you like their company. Don't be pushy, just eager.
They know you need a job or you wouldn't be sending out resumes.
I strongly disagree. I had a friend who did that( and this was years ago when the economy was better). They told her "we wish you the best with Company B".
After two interviews she got impatient and removed herself unintentionally from the job with Company A.
You try that now in this economy and chances are very good they will tell you "best of luck with Company B".
More than likely your friend was not one of the top candidates for the position-- she had not been already eliminated but she was more than likely the second tier third tier choice.
It is a good way of finding out where you stand with a company.
I had a friend who had a pending offer-- (she truly did) but really wanted to work with the other place she had interviewed. She preferred their benefits, the structure of the department, the potential salary, and the travel.
Of course, Murphy's Law-- the first company (the lesser preferred had called back and made the offer) so she did contact the first. They told her they would contact her later that week and just needed to do one more final thing. They called her within 24 hours to make the offer and sent out the offer letter by within 72 hours.
She pushed them-- because she was their top candidate. SHe didn't really realize she was, but they didn't want to play around and see if she was serious about having another offer.
If you are pretty high in their list of candidates-- touching base with them (after 3 weeks) is NOT going to make you needy.
If you are ranked pretty low in their selection criteria-- calling them or emailing them after 3 weeks with no information is either going to remind them to let you know that you are not their final choice, ignore you (some folks are cowards), etc.
If you are middle of the range and they don't want to turn you off (i.e. they havent disqualified you but they are still interviewing, etc) then they will just let you know that they are still in process.
I say-- if it has been 3 weeks-- I would email. Just as a follow up, don't go into some huge long winded schpill, but just a quick email about doing a checkin because this job/company was the top in your list, blah blah blah blah.
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