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Susan H. wrote:Dear forum, I just had a telephone interview for a position I was really interested in. The contact by email was very cordial, but now after the interview I am completely frustrated. In the end it was the usual: don't expect to hear back from us any time soon, application process has just started, many applicants - so that is most probably a no. However, I was wondering what went actually wrong. There was no structure, I answered what I was asked, but there was no flow, and it ended with irrelevant repetitions from my side. He asked for a current reference, explicitly line manger of my current job - I found that extremely weird. I thought I needed to leave it to the hiring manager to take the lead. Any advice? How can I avoid such a situation in the future? Should I still write a thank you note, or just forget about the whole thing?
I thought I needed to leave it to the hiring manager to take the lead.
Rich Lemert wrote:I thought I needed to leave it to the hiring manager to take the lead.
That, in a nut-shell, is where you went wrong with this interview.
Parker wrote:You may be reading too much into it. I find the bar for phone interviews to be rather low. I have had cases when I thought I did really poorly in the phone interview only to be told that I'm their top candidate during the in person interview.
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