How Long Would You Wait?

Re: How Long Would You Wait?

• flutteringinfl member

  

  January 2015

  Do you mean how long would I wait for them to call, or get back to me? For the former, if they're running behind, awhile, maybe up to 30 minutes or so. For the latter, I've been known to wait awhile, but anything longer than a week without at least a "checking in" message from them raises red flags. But to pull the rug out from under you at the last minute like that is a bigger issue to me. It indicates that they are disorganized and that this won't be the last time the disorganization affects you if you continue with them.

  

  
  

  
  

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• lovegood90 member

  

  January 2015

  Oh sorry, I was unclear. I meant how long would you wait for a recruiter to call you before getting annoyed, if you had a scheduled time to talk? Ie scheduled call at noon, it's 12:15 and they haven't contacted you yet.

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• flutteringinfl member

  

  January 2015

  Probably about 30 minutes before I'd go on my way. If they called late and had a good excuse, I might be forgiving. I've conducted interviews before and there's always the chance of some crazy factor coming in and messing things up, but a good recruiter has also planned for that.

  

  
  

  
  

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• labro member

  

  January 2015

  flutteringinftmyers said:

  Do you mean how long would I wait for them to call, or get back to me? For the former, if they're running behind, awhile, maybe up to 30 minutes or so. For the latter, I've been known to wait awhile, but anything longer than a week without at least a "checking in" message from them raises red flags. But to pull the rug out from under you at the last minute like that is a bigger issue to me. It indicates that they are disorganized and that this won't be the last time the disorganization affects you if you continue with them.

  All of the bolded. This just comes across as very messy and a fly by the seat of your pants attitude.

  Did you have noon as a hard time set up to have the call? I guess I can see a 10 minute delay not being a huge deal if it was a "around noon" sort of thing versus "we'll give you a call at noon". It's the sudden email with the change in plans to a video chat instead of a phone call that kind of bothers me a bit more. They're making a lot of assumptions that 1. You're prepared for a face to face meeting and 2. You're in a place where a video chat is even possible.
  

  
  

  
  

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• blabla89 member

  

  January 2015

  I guess it depends on how much you want the job. I get that things happen, they're busy, they're in a meeting that runs long and makes them late to call or whatever. But after 15-20 minutes I would start to wonder whether they had blown me off.
  

  

  
  
  

  
  

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• lovegood90 member

  

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  LaPeanut1018 said:

  flutteringinftmyers said:

  Do you mean how long would I wait for them to call, or get back to me? For the former, if they're running behind, awhile, maybe up to 30 minutes or so. For the latter, I've been known to wait awhile, but anything longer than a week without at least a "checking in" message from them raises red flags. But to pull the rug out from under you at the last minute like that is a bigger issue to me. It indicates that they are disorganized and that this won't be the last time the disorganization affects you if you continue with them.

  All of the bolded. This just comes across as very messy and a fly by the seat of your pants attitude.

  Did you have noon as a hard time set up to have the call? I guess I can see a 10 minute delay not being a huge deal if it was a "around noon" sort of thing versus "we'll give you a call at noon". It's the sudden email with the change in plans to a video chat instead of a phone call that kind of bothers me a bit more. They're making a lot of assumptions that 1. You're prepared for a face to face meeting and 2. You're in a place where a video chat is even possible.
  

  Sorry, I don't know why I said around noon haha, it was a set time of noon. And I agree the thing that bugs me the most is the last minute video call request. Like, it's 12pm on a Tuesday and you know I'm still employed at my old job, do you really think I took time off to go home to have a quick chat with you? I dunno I know I'm overreacting a bit but come on.
  

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• flutteringinfl member

  

  January 2015

  blabla89 said:

  I guess it depends on how much you want the job. I get that things happen, they're busy, they're in a meeting that runs long and makes them late to call or whatever. But after 15-20 minutes I would start to wonder whether they had blown me off.
  

  Yeah, I'll wait a lot longer both right before an interview and during the pre and post-interview contact period if it's like, my dream job. I waited an obscenely long time to hear back on a job I really wanted, before I accepted that they'd dropped off the face of the earth and had decided not to reply to my emails or give me an answer either way. But I've applied for jobs that looked decent but that I wasn't too enthusiastic about, and either never heard back or heard back awhile later, and I wasn't impressed.

  

  
  

  
  

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• flutteringinfl member

  

  January 2015

  lovegood90 said:

  LaPeanut1018 said:

  flutteringinftmyers said:

  Do you mean how long would I wait for them to call, or get back to me? For the former, if they're running behind, awhile, maybe up to 30 minutes or so. For the latter, I've been known to wait awhile, but anything longer than a week without at least a "checking in" message from them raises red flags. But to pull the rug out from under you at the last minute like that is a bigger issue to me. It indicates that they are disorganized and that this won't be the last time the disorganization affects you if you continue with them.

  All of the bolded. This just comes across as very messy and a fly by the seat of your pants attitude.

  Did you have noon as a hard time set up to have the call? I guess I can see a 10 minute delay not being a huge deal if it was a "around noon" sort of thing versus "we'll give you a call at noon". It's the sudden email with the change in plans to a video chat instead of a phone call that kind of bothers me a bit more. They're making a lot of assumptions that 1. You're prepared for a face to face meeting and 2. You're in a place where a video chat is even possible.
  

  Sorry, I don't know why I said around noon haha, it was a set time of noon. And I agree the thing that bugs me the most is the last minute video call request. Like, it's 12pm on a Tuesday and you know I'm still employed at my old job, do you really think I took time off to go home to have a quick chat with you? I dunno I know I'm overreacting a bit but come on.
  

  You're not overreacting. That's really unprofessional behavior and I'd be pretty pissed too, especially right when it happened and in the immediate aftermath.

  

  
  

  
  

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• lyndausvi mod

  

  January 2015

  My DH waited a 45 minutes for his interview with this job before he called them.   Apprently they thought IN was central time, but we were in eastern time.    The had to call him back in order to gather everyone.

  
  

  But I think 30 minutes is a good amount of time.      DH's first interview lasted 30-45 minutes.  It wasn't a short 10 minute chat either.   Add in travel time he was gone for 2 hours.  Luckily he makes his own hours.  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• photokitty mod

  

  January 2015

  Depends how bad I want the job. I have had to wait 20-30 for in person interviews, but once you are sitting in their lobby it's not really worth leaving.

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