By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Someone asked my opinion on what I thought was going on and I thought I would share it with you.
i, I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. And I coach people and organizations to play big and got a message from someone who was asking me a question about a scenario they were involved with. And it goes kind of like this.
She thought she had a great interview, got good feedback live. Even after the interview, call from the recruiter, told her she did well. Hasn’t heard anything.
Two weeks. What does this mean? What’s going on here? And, you know, the long and the short of it is, as I’ve said to people for years, often what not hearing back after getting positive feedback means is that number one is they’re still interviewing. You know, they’re not ready to close the doors on their dream boat walking in the front door with the result being you’re left in limbo.
You’re sitting there going, Oh, when will they call? I hope I hear from him soon. And I know it’s frustrating. But if you sit there, waiting by the phone for the phone call to come from the employer, you’re making a strategic mistake.
What you always need to be doing is taking what they say at face value. And keep on interviewing. Keep on trying to market yourself.
Keep on trying to get opportunities to come up to you and just knock you over and really create competition for this situation. You see, most of the time, stuff that gets put on the quote back burner, while they look at other people, invariably falls off the stove, as the joke goes in the recruiting business. So you don’t want to be so dependent upon this one employer to be the one that you’re waiting by the phone for in unrequited love.
What you want to always be doing is to keep going out on dates, meaning interviews. Keep marketing yourself. Keep promoting yourself.
Keep networking. Keep on keeping on. Because, you know, until they’re ready to move, all that happens is you have a situation that’s tantalizing there, but nothing in reality.
They haven’t invited you back. They talked about how you did well, but so what? There could be five more people that they see after you that’s done well. Now, as things progress, you know, I’ve complained about this to employers all the time.
Sometimes they call a month, two months later and say, okay, we’re ready to go. And you shouldn’t be waiting for them because obviously, they were not in love sufficiently with you to drop down on one knee and propose marriage when they met. I mean, the two of you met.
So always be out there promoting. Always be out there selling yourself. Always be out there building your network online, in person.
So that’s the simplest thing about what’s going on. They’re not ready to move. And even though they told you you did well, it may not mean that you get a job or a job from them anyway.
So don’t fall for the seduction. I gotta say that again. Don’t fall for the seduction of the few words about you did well.
And that’s whether that’s coming from an employer directly, or from a third party recruiter. That third party recruiter may be your advocate, or they may have four other people in the loop with this firm. They don’t care which one of you gets the job.
They just want to collect the fee. So I’ll simply say, keep on keeping on. Don’t fall for the bull that’s being thrown at you.
They’re not ready to move on you. And you shouldn’t be ready to sit by the phone and commit to that. Hope you found this helpful.
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