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I will try to keep this short. I was contacted on June 20th by a former colleague about a job at her company that she thought I’d be a good fit for. She’s the director or finance and admin, the dept is s smaller one within a large university. I applied for the job on June 24th. Spoke with HR a week or two later and was told by them that this position had been tough to fill. It had been open since April based on the time stamps I saw online. I was then sent a series of tasks to complete. I got little feedback on that. A week later I was told that my colleague would be on vacation so things would likely slow down but she’d be in touch the week of August 5th. At the end of the week I had heard nothing so I reached out. I was promptly responded to and invited for an interview with the hiring manager. I went, it seemed ok, he introduces me to others on the team. I asked when they were looking to hire and he fumbled a bit and said they were still interviewing other candidates. I took this as a brush off to be honest. I thought they’d beeen interested in me after all. I didn’t send any thank yous. I pretty much put them out of my head. Then two weeks later colleague emails me and said they enjoyed meeting me, hiring manager would love for me to meet with others on sept 6th. She added this is the soonest I could wrangle people together. I accepted. She then told me to expect to hear from HR for my references. She also added, I do want to let you know that we have other candidates but you are in the final group.
It’s weird to me that the hr person told me they have had trouble filling the role but the hiring manager and now the director keep bringing up all these other candidates. I assumed I wasn’t the only one interviewed. I figured people had been interviewed, they had trouble finding someone and then reached out to me.
Today I heard from the hr person and they want FIVE references. I have never been asked for that many. I have three ready to go but I had to come up with two more. And I need to have them by tomorrow morning. I contacts two who I know will be ok with this but I haven’t heard from them yet.
I’ve been at my current job for 4 months but I’m not really feeling it. I am interested in this other job but the process has been ridiculous. Is thrips normal?! I don’t think it is.
It isn’t unusual for academic hiring, although the process as you lay it out seems to be unusually unfocused and cumbersome.
Sounds like the job posting is ‘open until filled’. They are probably getting a new candidate now and again, then they have to find a time for the hiring committee to meet with the new candidate, which could take a week or two each time. Add this together for several candidates and you can get this long, drawn out process.
That isn’t the way I like to run search committees, but I have seen it done by others. The risk is that you lose good, early stage candidates who get fed up with the process, not to mention having an open position for months at a time.
I wouldn’t write this job off just because if the long process.
I applied for a job in September of 2017 and the process was still going in July 2018. It really was the job I wanted most out of those I was considering at that time, but when I got an offer at another company in July I called the hiring manager for an update. She explained where they were in the process and that they were hoping to have a final decision made by October. At that point I accepted the offer on the table. That was close to a year since my application and had they filled in in October it would have been more than a year. I'm dying to know if they evr did fill it. The story is long and winding and I won't bother you with it suffice to say sometimes the process does take a while.
Apply...move on...interview...move on. Been my mantra for months since I started following the Work & Employment threads. My stress levels and being anxious level has dropped since I no longer agonize over the tedious process hiring managers etc put applicants through. Yes, there have been jobs I would have loved to have landed but I soldiered on.
Well I am a little concerned now because I emailed my 5 references and only heard back from 1 it’s also the week before labor day weekend so people could be away. 3 of these references said they were happy to give me one a few months ago so I’m not sure what would have changed. I’m paranoid now I guess. Did I even need to alert them again?
OP.....RE-READ the above posts.....otherwise you will drive yourself crazy. Move on in you job search...if they want to hire you they will contact you.
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