Can I vent? -- I didn't get the job

[countthestars]

Big hugs. I hope you get the position, but if you don't - keep your head up!

[noodleskooze]

Ugh, waiting to hear is SO HARD. I'm losing sleep over waiting to hear back after two rounds interviews. It's been a week since the second one.

I hope they offer you the permanent position soon!

[thecatinthehat]

Mar 11, 2015 21:20:13 GMT -5 @this said:

DO NOT STRESS YET.

The job I recently interviewed for and was basically promised took two weeks to get back to me with an offer (despite telling me four days). Things just get hung up in big companies (as in discovering). Give it some more time! It sounds like they would be crazy to hire an entirely different person.

To make you feel better, I just counted and the entire process took 112 days from the night I applied to the day I got an offer. lol

Thanks! At the interview, they said they will make a decision quickly (gave me a date). When that day came, HR emailed me saying they weren't able to decide (not enough time) and hence today was most likely the day! LOL. The job posting was taken down the day before I interviewed (I was the last one). I really was expecting/hoping for good news today. My second interview was not as strong as the first, I've been running on less sleep, DS got croup and it's been a week of awful juggling with DH (who was called on to every single emergency) and a babysitter. Ugh! I hate that I might have lost it just because I was functioning at 80% during those interviews (2 separate sets, different groups of interviewer, on the same day). I suppose there is still a 5% chance they needed more time. But I know they must have someone from the pool otherwise they would not have taken the job posting down.

The only other thing I can think of, was that there was already someone they had in mind but that person could not start immediately. 

[thecatinthehat]

I didn't get it. Officially sobbing

[gogadgetgo]

I'm sorry. Hugs

[teatimefor2]

I'm sorry, that's hard. Hugs. You will find a job that's right for you.

[countthestars]

I'm so sorry

[thecatinthehat]

Thank you all. Ugh! I am so torn. My 2 weeks worth of work that they probably judged me by was clearly not my best, but it was the best I could do given the situation and my slight lack of experience. I wished they waited a couple more weeks because I'm just finally at the point where I am getting used to a new job and all new responsibilities. We are just at the point where me and DH are getting used to full-time daycare and be both working parents.

[bbonanza]

I am so sorry

[greycat]

((Hugs))

[mannah]

I'm sorry. Sometimes people are idiots. Sounds like they are for not keeping you.

[mrsdoe]

I am so sorry. I missed the backstory and industry but just keep doing what you are doing. They may have another req open up eventually. I was in a longer term temp position and applied for a perm job and they wouldn't even consider me. Several months later another department pursued me and I ended up getting an offer which I turned down for a different company. It stings though.

[sent]

I'm sorry. Sometimes decisions like these make no sense.

[arch01]

I'm sorry, that's tough

I'd take the opportunity though to follow up and thank them for the opportunity to interview-and ask for constructive feedback. You can use it as feedback moving forward in not only the timre remaining and potentially keep a door open for the future and/or use it as feedback while interviewing for other positions.

[osulori]

I'm so sorry