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Channel: Jennifer Brick
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Has waiting to your back
from a job ever been like,
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"Okay, how long should I
wait after the interview?"
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"Why isn't this recruiter responding?"
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If you feel like you've been
ghosted after a job interview,
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this video is for you. Stay tuned.
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Hello and welcome back to my channel,
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where I help you slay your career and
cultivate the successful life you deserve.
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click that subscription button
plus the notification bell.
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I release a new video every Tuesday.
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And since you're already waiting
to hear back after that interview,
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let's just jump into how
long you should be waiting,
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reasons why you might be
waiting after the interview,
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and what you can do about it. If
you're ready, click that like button.
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We're jumping right into it.
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One of the questions that I
get asked most frequently is,
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how long should I wait after
an interview before I hear back
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from the recruiter and on
average, it's going to be about
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one to two weeks before you do
hear back. It might be faster,
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it might be slower. Ideally before
you actually leave the interview,
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you're going to ask about the timeline and
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ideally they're actually going
to hold on to that timeline
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but there are several reasons why
there might actually be a delay.
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Some of them are good, some
of them and so why has it?
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Why are you waiting for me? You're
back after your job interview.
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The first reason is the best
possible reason for you,
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and that that they are doing
their pre-offer due diligence
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before they actually extend you
an offer after your interview.
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This is going to be all the requisite
stuff that a lot of employers do
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before they actually extend you an
offer including your reference checks,
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verifying your education, and there
might be some other steps that
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they're taking depending
on what role and industry
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you are in now because each due
diligence step that they take is
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actually depending on other people and
potentially some really slow agencies.
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Sometimes this can take
a little bit of time.
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There's one thing that I find you
can actually really help expedite
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for the person who is doing their due
diligence check after the interview
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to help you get to the offer,
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and that is making sure that you
have spoken to your references
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so that they are expecting the call.
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If someone knows that they are going
to get a call to help you get a job,
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and they've agreed to it, they're
going to be much more responsive
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and really expecting that call or
that email when it does come through.
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And it is going to be something
that they are able to prioritize.
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The second reason why you might be waiting
to hear back after your job interview
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is
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one that is unfortunately really
common given our current circumstances
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and that is they have either
entered a hiring freeze,
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or hiring for the position has
temporarily gone on to hold
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while they reevaluate and potentially
reorganize their company in better
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times. This can also happen when the
company is going through an exit event,
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such as the finalization of an acquisition
or when they're going through an IPO.
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While many companies and many
recruiters are going to be very open
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with you in the circumstances that this
is actually happening. Some just aren't.
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Some are going to totally ghost
to you for months at a time.
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I personally had this experience with
a job that I actually got several years
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ago, where the company was going
through their initial public offering.
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All hiring was put on hold for
months. I didn't hear anything back,
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but as soon as the hiring freeze lifted,
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I got a phone call and proceeded
very quickly to complete the
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interview process and very
rapidly got the job offer.
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If the company does have a hiring
freeze or hold in the position,
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I definitely don't encourage anyone
to sit around and wait for it,
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especially if you're in between jobs
and you really need to get to your next
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paycheck. However, knowing what is
actually happening can be very reassuring.
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And if you are someone who was
looking while you're employed,
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and you're not in a hurry, it lets
you know that if you wait a few months
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that maybe that dream job is
going to come open for you.
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Especially in times that are a
little bit rocky like where many
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companies unfortunately are right now.
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Sometimes they are going to
have to have extra hurdles
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and extra steps in order to get budgetary
approval before the actually extend
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you the offer.
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Sometimes this means that the
authorization is sitting in some
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extraordinarily busy VP's
inbox just waiting to be found.
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If this is the case, you
might not know about it,
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but it is probably the best reason
why you're waiting after an interview
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to hear about the next step.
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If it's not because they are
getting your offer prepared or
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because they have entered a hiring freeze.
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Another reason why you may be waiting
to hear back after your job interview
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is that they are still considering
other things candidates.
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This one obviously a
little less advantageous,
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but it doesn't mean that you're
out of the running yet. Sometimes,
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and especially as you get through
the different phases of interviewing,
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there can sometimes be
scheduling conflicts that do
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arise and they may need to
actually be moving the timeline
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because there is someone else that
they are actually interviewing
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before they're able to
make their final decision
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about who they're going to hire
and who to extend the offer to.
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I've also seen where companies
didn't feel total 100%
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confidence in any of the
candidates that they did interview.
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Though they felt really good,
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they still wanted to reach out to
some additional people to see if
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anyone would be a better fit
before they actually proceed.
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Now this can also be a flag
because when that happens
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it might be because the company
doesn't actually really know
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what they're looking for and
they're discovering their needs
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as they're actually
interviewing candidates.
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Whether or not that is going to
be the right environment for you
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is something that is totally up to you,
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but something to take into
consideration if it's apparent to you.
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Drawing from that, the fourth reason
why you might be waiting to hear
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back after a job interview is that they
have extended an offer to someone else.
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When an offer is extended
to another candidate,
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there is typically not going to be
a notification sent to the other
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candidates that were
under final consideration.
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The reason for this is
pretty straightforward.
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Not everyone accepts the offer.
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If that person doesn't end
up accepting the offer,
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they want to make sure that one
of the other people that they
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have screened and that they know
they really like is still going
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to be available to have the
offer extended to them and I
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kind of feel like I'm telling the story
of my life because this is actually
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something that happened to me and I
kind of found out about it by accident,
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but I was waiting for several weeks
to hear back after a job interview.
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I found out later it's because
they did offer to someone else.
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She didn't end up accepting
in which time I suddenly
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heard back with a job offer in my inbox.
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The fifth reason why you might be waiting
to hear back about the job is quite
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honestly that
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that company does not
have their stuff together.
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And I've heard a lot of reasons from
hiring managers, from recruiters,
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about why they aren't actually
communicating with candidates.
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Especially the candidates that have
taken the time to interview with the
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company. Sometimes the
recruiter is overloaded,
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sometimes the hiring manager isn't
getting back to the recruiter. However,
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the end of the day it's a
lot of internal dysfunction,
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and quite honestly a deep
prioritization in candidate experience
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that is actually impacting
communications and it is the
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reason why they have ghosted you
after the interview. That's said,
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If you end up getting the offer
and you choose to take it,
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this might end up being the best
company that you've ever worked for.
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I've mentioned two instances
now of companies that I loved
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and managers that I loved working
for where I was actually ghosted
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in the recruiting process. However,
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you do need to take it as a
signal about the efficiencies
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of their internal communications
and take that for what it's worth.
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If it's something that's
extraordinarily important to you,
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it might be something that makes
you very frustrated as an employee.
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The fifth reason why they aren't
getting back to after the job interview
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is probably the worst one
and that is just aren't that
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you. And instead of being professional
and respectful and letting
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you know that they've decided
not to proceed with you,
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they have just gone ghost town. They're
just hiding their heads in the sand,
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and pretending the whole
thing never happened at all.
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And unfortunately this does
happen to people and in no
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uncertain terms, I want to be very, very
clear. If a company does this to you,
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this is not a company
that you want to work for.
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If they are treating you like that,
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when you're considering a
potential position with them,
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imagine how they're going to treat you
when you were dependent on them for your
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paycheck.
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Them ghosting you is the biggest
favor that they can pay you in your
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career. In the long run you are
going to see how true that is.
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The unfortunate thing with all of
the reasons why you're waiting to
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hear back after an interview and
the recruiter isn't responding to
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you is that you might not be able
to find out what the reason is.
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Just like waiting for a text from a guy,
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you're waiting for that email from
the company and if you don't get it
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or if it takes a while, you're really
not going to know the reason why. Well,
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the reason why it can be
very helpful to you as a job.
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The more important thing is
what you do about it now.
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Now if you were good and you
watched my what questions to ask
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at the end of the job interview
and you followed the last question
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that you absolutely must ask, you
already know what timeline you
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should be expecting to hear back.
If you don't hear from them,
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that timeline is now going
to provide you a parameter
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in order to follow up with
them. If they said one week,
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wait one week to send that email.
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If they said two weeks, wait two weeks
at a couple of days to send the email.
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When you do follow up with either the
recruiter or the hiring manager and say,
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Hey, as we discussed,
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I was expecting to hear
back by about this date.
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Just wanted to check in to see if
there was any updates on next steps.
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If you already set that follow up
and it's been more than a week,
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you can send one more followup.
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I don't generally recommend setting
additional followups after that.
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While I know some people do encourage
to continue sending followups.
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I tend to just fall off
the radar off for that.
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I personally find that when a
candidate keeps fun sending it,
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showing a level of desperation
that you really don't want to be
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showing in your job search
even if you're desperate.
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The other thing that you can do is
if you have both the hiring managers
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and the recruiters contact information,
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is send one followup to one wait a
few days and if you don't hear back,
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send a follow up to the other one.
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The second thing that you absolutely
must do if you are not hearing back after
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an interview is to keep on looking.
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I've spoken to so many people that thought
that an interview went really well.
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There was discussion about an
offer during the interview.
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They felt so positive and so
optimistic about the opportunity
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that they basically stopped looking
and stopped interviewing until
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you actually not only have that
offer in hand, but you will hav
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literally started at that company.
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You need to continue your search.
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I know a lot of people say after the offer
you can kind of lean back, celebrate.
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Unfortunately, because of
what is happening right now,
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I have heard instances where
offers have been canceled.
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If you are interviewing
and you do get that offer,
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keep on interviewing up until
your actual start date. This way,
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if you don't hear back, if they're
going to be that jerk company.
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who totally ghosts you,
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you're fine because you have
continued your active search
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and you are on your way to
your dream job at a company
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who deserves to have you and
if they do reach back because
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they want to invite you for another
interview or you're finally getting
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that job offer in your inbox,
you haven't done any harm.
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And just an FYI. If you are
considering a job offer,
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I do have a video on that that you should
absolutely check out after this one.
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I'll link it down below. Finally,
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the third thing that you absolutely
should do when you were waiting,
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we're back after an interview.
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If you are very interested in
this specific opportunity and
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you are actively interviewing elsewhere
and potentially expecting an offer to
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come in,
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you can actually send this as
this is great for two reasons.
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First of all, it is going to
trigger their scarcity mindset.
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Even if you were not the lead
candidate before you send that note,
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you are probably going to skyrocket
to at the top of their list.
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The reason for that is people
want what other people want so now
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all of a sudden they're going to realize
all of the things that they might be
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missing out if they don't get you
that offer or in for the last round of
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interviews really, really quickly.
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On the other side of it is a
little bit more practical if
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they have just been kind of dragging
their feet, lost fizzy of internal
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miscommunications or maybe just
waiting to see if another dream
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candidate falls from the sky.
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This is going to be the fire under
their peach in order to get you into
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the next round of interviews or get that
job offer out to you before they miss
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their chance.
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The other advantage this step has for
you is that when you do begin negotiating
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your offer,
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you now have a little bit
of extra leverage on your
perceived value is going to
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have gone up.
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So if that's not a Testament for why
you should continue searching when
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you are waiting to hear back for an
interview, I don't know what is told you.
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A few of my personal stories about
instances where I was waiting to hear
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back after an interview
and I got the job offer.
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Do you have one of those stories too?
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If you do drop it down below because
you know how hard it is to be in
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a circumstance and it's going to
give a little bit of encouragement.
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And let's spread a little bit of optimism
around to the people that are waiting
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on the companies who have
ghosted them no matter why.
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Waiting to hear back on one job interview,
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and putting all of your
eggs in that basket,
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is not the best approach when
you are searching for a new job.
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And continuing your search
is truly crucial as I just
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punctuated.
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If you aren't really sure about all of
the different strategies that are out
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there to search, check out this
video right now. As always,
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thank you so much for watching. If
it was helpful, give it a thumbs up.
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Consider subscribing and I'll see you
next time. Bye for now. [Bloopers]
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