I followed up on the job I did reference checks for because it’s been two weeks now. The recruitment person said she’d get back to me. In that time I got an email saying I was unsuccessful. But the hiring manager is on leave. This is all very confusing.
Since this progressed to references I expected to hear back with an offer. Not that it was guaranteed but that’s how things normally go. We’re around two weeks out from the end of the year and I was kind of expecting to hear back on this job so the whole thing has just thrown me mentally at the moment.
I’ve been fucked over by jobs in just about every way imaginable and even this is a slightly new one for me. Fortunately it’s not the worst, but still odd
Recruitment person hit the send button on the system that send out the rejection letters during the call? Hiring manager may have already left a ‘no’ in the system but it just hasn’t been sent. Sorry you missed out but it can be something as benign as they had an internal applicant that got priority, may have been nothing to do with you specifically.
If any of those outcomes are the case it’s weird for them to ask for referees two weeks ago and only get a No now. Nothing is guaranteed with a new job until you’re in there but this is just a strange waste of everyone’s time
Ah man I’m sorry to hear that. That is very annoying. But I’ve been in the situation like this before. Got to references but they liked the other candidate more.
I’m hoping its an automation accident but its still a strange one. They should have thought about things more because reference checks start to take up other people’s time as well
That’s really odd. At the references stage it’s as you’d expect - you’ve got the role barring
The references being terrible (like “I worked with this person and have nothing further to comment”). If you’re suspicious of that being the cause you can request a full copy of your references and the detailed interviewer notes/feedback under GDPR, to which they must comply.
The role has been removed and doesn’t exist any more. It happens sometimes and sucks for everyone on both sides of the fence. But you’d typically be told that was the reason why.
Stretching here: but it was a scam role to gather PII 🤷??
Again, really sorry that you’re going through this!
It’s an established place so it’s not a scam role, and I had too much of a hand in the reference checks for those to turn out negative. It could be the place is too big to properly know what’s going on, and this time of year a bunch of people are on leave, stretching out the process
I followed up on the job I did reference checks for because it’s been two weeks now. The recruitment person said she’d get back to me. In that time I got an email saying I was unsuccessful. But the hiring manager is on leave. This is all very confusing.
Since this progressed to references I expected to hear back with an offer. Not that it was guaranteed but that’s how things normally go. We’re around two weeks out from the end of the year and I was kind of expecting to hear back on this job so the whole thing has just thrown me mentally at the moment.
Oh hey, that’s so frustrating.
The whole job hunting process is tough.
I’ve been fucked over by jobs in just about every way imaginable and even this is a slightly new one for me. Fortunately it’s not the worst, but still odd
Recruitment person hit the send button on the system that send out the rejection letters during the call? Hiring manager may have already left a ‘no’ in the system but it just hasn’t been sent. Sorry you missed out but it can be something as benign as they had an internal applicant that got priority, may have been nothing to do with you specifically.
If any of those outcomes are the case it’s weird for them to ask for referees two weeks ago and only get a No now. Nothing is guaranteed with a new job until you’re in there but this is just a strange waste of everyone’s time
Ah man I’m sorry to hear that. That is very annoying. But I’ve been in the situation like this before. Got to references but they liked the other candidate more.
I’m hoping its an automation accident but its still a strange one. They should have thought about things more because reference checks start to take up other people’s time as well
Sorry to hear this has happened to you, that all sounds very unprofessional from them.
Have you asked your references when/if they were called?
It was an online form they were emailed. I got emails myself when they were completed.
And I know they were done because I coordinated with them what to say when they filled the form out
That’s really odd. At the references stage it’s as you’d expect - you’ve got the role barring
The references being terrible (like “I worked with this person and have nothing further to comment”). If you’re suspicious of that being the cause you can request a full copy of your references and the detailed interviewer notes/feedback under GDPR, to which they must comply.
The role has been removed and doesn’t exist any more. It happens sometimes and sucks for everyone on both sides of the fence. But you’d typically be told that was the reason why.
Stretching here: but it was a scam role to gather PII 🤷??
Again, really sorry that you’re going through this!
It’s an established place so it’s not a scam role, and I had too much of a hand in the reference checks for those to turn out negative. It could be the place is too big to properly know what’s going on, and this time of year a bunch of people are on leave, stretching out the process