If you dont want to tell us how our interview went...

[BrilloPad]

I implore you, please just tell the contractor! what's the worst that could happen! Don't be a wimp and pull the old 'hello, hello, if you can hear me I can't hear you' rubbish on your mobile.

BP (trying to make the world a little bit better)

[RichardCranium]

I wonder how my interview with EDS in October went?

I wonder when I'll get the feedback from the Hammersmith interview in November?

I wonder why it took the Warwickshire client from October until today for me to find out "Oh, err, umm, they filled it internally."

I wonder when Lorien will get back to me with the promised feedback for the gig that was supposed to start 19/09/2009?

I wonder when Elan will confirm the replacement date for the delayed interview in July?

(But I will let the agency off for the April role where the agent gave up trying to get hold of the interviewing manager as I was being cc'd on the emails.)



About once every two weeks I phone the landline from the mobile just in case.

[norrahe]

It's becoming more and more common either the client not to bother getting back to the agent or the agent doesn't bother ringing you at all.

[BolshieBastard]

It's becoming more and more common either the client not to bother getting back to the agent or the agent doesn't bother ringing you at all.

I think its been this way for the last 7 years at least. If you dont hear within 2 or 3 days, you havent got the job. so move on.

[bobspud]

When you have a business that makes money by selling resources it helps if the resources can be bothered to talk to you....

The market is a cycle.. last year was pants. But the 20 years before it rocked for IT. It amazes me that the agencies seem to have forgotten how they used to have to beg for our time on the phone... Things will be better again with the added bonus of a hole left by thousands of professionals walking away to plan B never to return...

When that day comes I will remember all agents / agencies that messed me about and they will find that I won't give them my time or CV and they will not be winning business as a result...

[TykeMerc]

It's becoming more and more common either the client not to bother getting back to the agent or the agent doesn't bother ringing you at all.

I've not really noticed Agents being more reluctant to give feedback recently.
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For the last 18, almost 19 years they've always been utterly crap at it.
It's the incredibly rare exception rather than the rule if they call other than if there's an offer.

[PinkPoshRat]

I now give the agency a whole week to get back to me with interview feedback. After a week has passed I call the person who interviewed me and explain the agency have not informed me of the decision. This makes it embarrassing for the client who is caught off guard! It also makes the agency look unprofessional.

[ratewhore]

I think its been this way for the last 7 years at least. If you dont hear within 2 or 3 days, you havent got the job. so move on.

WHS.

They'll get back to you if they want you. I've had the call a couple of months later. Clearly I was in another role by then...

[Darren_Test]

About once every two weeks I phone the landline from the mobile just in case.

Yes..I am doing that when ever my mobile is quite for 3-4 hrs, just to make sure its not the signal problem...!!

[TiroFijo]

I think its been this way for the last 7 years at least. If you dont hear within 2 or 3 days, you havent got the job. so move on.

That's correct, so no point in pestering the agent for interview results as if they had any good results they would be camped out in your front garden until they cornered you.