Waiting for the call, What your criteria should be for 2nd interview
Waiting for the call, What your criteria should be for 2nd interview
- After the interview waiting for the call back is hard. Did you remember to send a thank you note? Did you highlight your points and add anything you forgot to cover?
- You made it past the first/possibly even a second interview, Now what? If the interviewer said they would get back to you, allow the time agreed on to pass.
- When the call comes, you need to be as prepared as you were for the first interview, many of the same rules apply.
- Dress for success.
- Bring extra resumes, you will most likely be meeting with the next level and possibly the staff who you will be working with.
- Be prepared to spend at least two hours at this interview (so don’t overbook yourself, allow plenty of time)
- This is now the time you can discuss benefits, salary etc (keep it light the offer hasn’t been made yet)
- Once the interview is complete, again shake hands, collect business cards. Don’t forget to ask them when they plan to make a decision.
- Send out thank you note, take this opportunity to let them know that you can do the job and you really want to work for them.
- Then the waiting game starts again, you are hoping for an offer at this point.
- If the time has passed and you haven’t heard back then you can: If you made a connection with Human Resources you can send them an email or call them. But you don’t want to seem to pushy, they have jobs to do. They may tell you they haven’t made a decision or they haven’t heard either way, or even that they have decided on another candidate.
- Don’t loose heart, keep in there. Continue your search, set up other interviews while you wait.
- You Don’t want to not have choices, ideally you want several offers on the table to choose from.
My week will be busy again this week. I received a call back for a second(third really) interview with a firm I am very interested in, waiting to firm the date of this interview sometime this week. Possibly Thursday. And on Friday I received another call for a first interview in the city. So I am encouraged. I had three interviews last week, two of them may not be a great fit, but the practice is good. Helps to be more relaxed if you are doing more interviews you aren’t as anxious since you are getting more practice.
Thats all for now will try and keep you update.
Trish
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