Approach after being ghosted

[quackhandle]

I have been here in the past, contacted pimp at well know agency, gig was at HSBC. Interview seemed to go okay but never heard back.


Fast forward 3.5 years later, same pimp, same agency, same bank, same role. Interviewed and got the gig.

Did mention this to pimp about not hearing back from first one and he actually apologised.


Should have recorded it.

qh

[cojak]

This is a very large company - the hiring team seem extremely nice. Ghosting appears to be an HR policy.

And that’s supposed to make a difference?

if you get a better offer, take it.

[psychocandy]

It's not civil service is it? A friend took interviews and then heard nothing for a year, suddenly got a call "you got it, when can you start?" Apparently this isn't even unusual.

Public sector client I used to work at handled it a bit like that...... They seemed to think everyone waited around for them.

[psychocandy]

Being ignored for initial applications is normal but ghosting after an interview is bad form. I've never experienced it. I would tend to go with another agent.

It seems a 50/50 split at the moment. The decent agents who will reply to emails and those who won't care unless its £ in the pocket for them.....

A lot of the "older" agents fall into the latter category.

[northernladuk]

It seems a 50/50 split at the moment. The decent agents who will reply to emails and those who won't care unless its £ in the pocket for them.....

A lot of the "older" agents fall into the latter category.

Older as in over 25?

[TheDude]

Older as in over 25?

Over 16.

[TheDude]

So I have been made a perm offer for this job a full 15 months after interviewing and at a salary that is very close to my day rate and could far exceed that with bonus.

My only concern is work/life balance.

[Whorty]

So I have been made a perm offer for this job a full 15 months after interviewing and at a salary that is very close to my day rate and could far exceed that with bonus.

My only concern is work/life balance.

Only you can decide what is important to you at your stage of life/career. No one else can answer that for you I'm afraid. You ask 10 people on here, you'll have 11 different answers (and that excludes NLUK telling you to go ask your accountant).

[TheDude]

So...

I received a verbal offer with a salary range benchmarked against my peers last week.

I have today received a confirmed offer that is 10% lower than the figure discussed last week but with a *potential* bonus of £40k.

Having seen bonuses fluctuate wildly as a permie in banks it looks like I will continue to fly the contractor jolly roger for the foreseeable future.

I can't imagine why HR bothered to mention an initial salary and then think I would be happy with a lower figure...

[WTFH]

I have today received a confirmed offer that is 10% lower than the figure discussed last week but with a *potential* bonus of £40k.

...

I can't imagine why HR bothered to mention an initial salary and then think I would be happy with a lower figure...

It's called negotiating.
Businesses do it all the time. They go in with an offer, you go back with a counter offer - if you're interested. If they are interested, then they look at the figures and make a new offer.