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Your job interview went better than you could have imagined. You walked away excited about the prospect of working for the person (or people) you interviewed with and for their organization. You’re confident you did everything right. You:
And yet, you’ve received no response. What gives?
Unfortunately, many employers ghost interviewees—even management-level candidates. Employers may say they’re too busy to reply to every candidate. It’s disrespectful, but there’s nothing to be done.
There are, however, several reasonable explanations why you’ve not heard anything right away. For instance:
They may still get back to you—just a lot later than you expected.
If weeks have gone by since your last contact with the company (after the hiring deadline has passed) with no response, it’s time to pursue other job opportunities. Hopefully, you were already doing that, because no hiring decision is a done deal until it happens.
Besides, do you really want to work with a person or organization that isn’t courteous enough to contact you with their decision? Pick yourself up and get back out there!
Five of the Worst Job Interview Mistakes
Congratulations—you nailed your last few job interviews! So why have they merely yielded polite turndowns? Perhaps you’ve unintentionally made one or more of the five major interview mistakes below.
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