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On paper, a job candidate can skate to the next round using this tactic, but in person, you may be required to discuss this topic at length and describe how you would use that experience to propel the company forward. In my experience, both men and women who feel lacking in a specific area will find ways to make one relevant detail in their resumés into the crux of their entire application. Senior executives at Hewlett-Packard have suggested that women will apply for a job when they meet most, if not all, of the requirements of a job posting, while men are comfortable applying at much lower levels of qualification. Fess up: did you embellish a little? (A lot?) It could be internal red tape and emails that haven’t connected. If you think the interview went great and were expecting the offer, trust your gut.

…Or was it HR that was supposed to follow-up? Did anyone in HR send out an email to clarify? Gary, could you touch base and find out where we are? These situations happen easily in a busy company environment.Īlso read: When to Follow Up – And Give Up – After a Job Interview Once the hiring manager has decided they would like to extend an offer to you, that manager needs to contact HR. It could also be that internal communication has been unclear. Once the manager returns, they’ll trudge through all the email from the last few weeks, until they get to the swath of HR messages that say, “We still need a decision on this person!” It’s super-convenient for the manager, but it’s not so convenient for you, since you have no way of knowing about the travel. Perhaps they squeezed in your interview just before going on vacation. Maybe this was an inconvenient time for your soon-to-be supervisor. Read on to understand some common reasons why you haven’t heard back and what to do next. What happened?įrom your point of view, it looks the company where you were so excited to work may have ghosted you, but what seems like radio silence to you is probably a flurry of tasks for the hiring manager to complete before you can be offered the position. The job posting is still “open,” and HR said they’d get back to you within two weeks. It went great! …or so you thought, but it’s been over a month since you’ve heard from the hiring manager. You were flown in for an in-person interview, where you had the chance to meet and get to know the team.