Follow up - job edition

[chickens987]

I need advice on following up with these 2 jobs, please. Yes or no and suggested verbiage?

1) super involved interview process, culminating on Friday the 21st, told they wanted to move quickly, sent an email on the 25th just thanking her and reiterating my interest.

2) working with a sort of recruiter. Had 2 interviews, last on Wednesday the 26th. Emailed recruiter that day. I know the hiring manager was on vacation last week.

So wwyd?

[dancingirl21]

I would follow up with both.

1. Thank you, again, for taking the time to meet with me. After thinking about the position further, I am very interested and think I would be a great fit because XYZ. I look forward to hearing your decision soon.

2. Hi, Recruiter name. I am very interested in XYZ position. Is there any additional information I can provide to move forward in the process?

[chickens987]

Sept 1, 2015 12:25:45 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

I would follow up with both.

1. Thank you, again, for taking the time to meet with me. After thinking about the position further, I am very interested and think I would be a great fit because XYZ. I look forward to hearing your decision soon.

2. Hi, Recruiter name. I am very interested in XYZ position. Is there any additional information I can provide to move forward in the process?

1 is basically what I sent last week

[dancingirl21]

Sept 1, 2015 12:31:16 GMT -5 chickens987 said:

Sept 1, 2015 12:25:45 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

I would follow up with both.

1. Thank you, again, for taking the time to meet with me. After thinking about the position further, I am very interested and think I would be a great fit because XYZ. I look forward to hearing your decision soon.

2. Hi, Recruiter name. I am very interested in XYZ position. Is there any additional information I can provide to move forward in the process?

1 is basically what I sent last week

Okay.  In that case, I might be a bit more direct. 

"Hi, Manager Name. I appreciate you taking the time to meet with me and was wondering if you have made a decision. I am still very interested in the position. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide to you".

Not worded well here, but something to that effect.

[Deleted]

I wouldnt follow up any more. You followed up last week stating you were intersted. Any more and I think it becomes annoying.

[Deleted]

Ok I retract....ask a manager says to follow up www.askamanager.org/2007/08/when-to-follow-up-after-interview.html

[thebreakfastclub]

I just want to commiserate here. Follow ups like this suck so bad and writing them stresses me out.

It took one hiring manager 3 weeks and 2 times sending my resume (with internal references) for him to just place a 5 minute phone call back.

I like what dancingirl21 wrote.

[chickens987]

Sept 1, 2015 12:39:35 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

I just want to commiserate here. Follow ups like this suck so bad and writing them stresses me out.

It took one hiring manager 3 weeks and 2 times sending my resume (with internal references) for him to just place a 5 minute phone call back.

I like what dancingirl21 wrote.

It's THE WORST.

When is your hq visit?

[thebreakfastclub]

Sept 1, 2015 12:41:57 GMT -5 chickens987 said:

Sept 1, 2015 12:39:35 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

I just want to commiserate here. Follow ups like this suck so bad and writing them stresses me out.

It took one hiring manager 3 weeks and 2 times sending my resume (with internal references) for him to just place a 5 minute phone call back.

I like what dancingirl21 wrote.

It's THE WORST.

When is your hq visit?

More waiting on that, LOL.  The HR admin is supposed to be emailing me.  I can appreciate that getting 4 people's schedules and figuring out times for interviews all on one day would take a couple of days though.

I think what makes it hard is when you have a job, the time flies by.   Sometimes I think I would blink and it was Wednesday already.  Now we are in the opposite boat.   I try to remind myself that this is not anyone's priority but mine, but it's so hard.

[dancingirl21]

I work in HR and honestly, a lot of times I'm so bogged down in other stuff I sort of "forget" about candidates. Candidates and hiring are my job exclusively. Managers need to do work in addition to hiring.

I hear from managers a lot that they just got caught up in something else and they didn't have time or forgot to respond. Getting an email jogs their memory.

And frankly, if you don't hear back from someone after attempting contact twice, that says a lot, IMO.

Good luck!

[Deleted]

As a hiring manager, I would be super annoyed if you were emailing me again when you already had last week.

Whatever the length of time they told you it would take, double it, then follow up. People are always overly optimistic about hiring time lines.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Sept 1, 2015 14:41:29 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

As a hiring manager, I would be super annoyed if you were emailing me again when you already had last week.

Whatever the length of time they told you it would take, double it, then follow up. People are always overly optimistic about hiring time lines.

Pretty much this.  And assuming you're in the US, it's also the lead up to a holiday weekend and a lot of people are sneaking in some last days off.  It's entirely possible that they thought they'd be able to get the hiring committee together to make their selection, but one person is out one day, another is out the other, and so on.  It sucks to wait, but I'd wait at least another week or two before contacting them.