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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Trust me, the slow pace of the hiring company is a big frustration for recruiters as well. We work like crazy to find people and screen them and submit them. Then the company either goes quiet, or takes forever to schedule an interview. By the time they get around to it, I'm telling them that the really good, possibly high impact candidates are gone.
Even in my own search, its frustrating. I went through 4 really good interviews in the last two weeks with one company. Got done the final interview, and then the next day they said they had some internal candidates pop up and they are obligated to interview them. Fine I get that, but before you go out on the streets to find candidates, look at your internal pool first.
But I went from feeling good about both of the jobs that they interviewed me for, to. Well they've now wasted about 5 or 6 hours of my time over two weeks and chances are I'll have to wait a couple of more weeks for the internal interviews to happen.
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Sadly - I just went through the opposite of this at a major here in town. I think the hiring department had an internal candidate identified all along, but HR policy dictated that they post externally just to see what came in.
The application submission, screening, and 1st interview all happened in like 2 weeks time, which is not common of a major - but I think that's because they wanted the internal to start working ASAP.
I think I sensed something was up when they ran through their standard battery of questions without asking once about companies previously worked at - anyone serious about someone does. I'll give them credit though, the hiring manager called me personally to tell me the news, which allowed me to get some feedback. At least I got something from it other than the standard PFO email.