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Re: job interview conundrum Posted by EGD [Email]  (#663) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from EGD) on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:55:55
In Reply to: job interview conundrum, rob5, Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:39:47 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I've hired about 75 engineers over the past seven years for a large corporation. You will never hear from the hiring manager or an HR person that they didn't want to hire you. The rejection will always be couched in terms of 'another candidate was better suited' or something similar. Why? Too many lawsuits from candidates that thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread but we didn't hire them, etc.
The delay in getting a response may be due to an inability to get a large enough candidate pool for the position (it's difficult to interview just one qualified person for a job and then make a hiring decision without being second guessed), the organization may be looking for diversity (yup, it happens, and I have been under tremendous pressure to hire women and other minorities to make corporate hiring 'goals'), or they may just be having funding issues for the particular position (in my business, it happens a lot that a program has budget, opens up a position to fill a need, and then the budget is reduced and the 'need' goes away until they can secure alternate funding).
In any event, I advise skipping the HR person and contact a member of the interview panel. That person most likely will have the real story as to what's going on. If you don't get a warm feeling, move on. It's an extremely tough market right now and even exceptional candidates are being denied (believe me on this one).
Just keep plugging away.
Good luck!
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