Which was good, and then the second one was really appealing
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:36 am
Don't Stall Your Job Search
Here’s an example of how stalling your job search can really hurt. I worked with Leanne a year ago – she desperately wanted to secure a minesite cleaning role, and she had great skills and experience for this type of work. She’d worked hard over the previous 18 months to get industrial cleaning experience in the metropolitan area to enhance her skills and was finally ready to start applying. She sent applications and had a good hit rate, securing four interviews over the following two weeks.
She went for one interview – this was the job she wanted. The roster, pay rate and taiwan phone number library conditions were in her words, ‘perfect’. She cancelled her other two interviews because she wanted the second one. She was told a decision would be made in a week, so she stopped applying and waited. One week passed with no news; she followed up. ‘Sorry, we’re running late with a decision but you’re still in the running’, the employer said. Two weeks later still no news, she followed up again and didn’t hear back.
Three weeks later she received an email saying the position had been withdrawn. She was devastated – not only because she really wanted the role, more so because she’d let other opportunities slip by while she was waiting. She felt very foolish and had to start over all again. The problem for her was that as there are only a certain number of contractors that supply cleaners to minesites, it meant having to revisit the two companies that she had cancelled interviews with, adding to her embarrassment.
Here’s an example of how stalling your job search can really hurt. I worked with Leanne a year ago – she desperately wanted to secure a minesite cleaning role, and she had great skills and experience for this type of work. She’d worked hard over the previous 18 months to get industrial cleaning experience in the metropolitan area to enhance her skills and was finally ready to start applying. She sent applications and had a good hit rate, securing four interviews over the following two weeks.
She went for one interview – this was the job she wanted. The roster, pay rate and taiwan phone number library conditions were in her words, ‘perfect’. She cancelled her other two interviews because she wanted the second one. She was told a decision would be made in a week, so she stopped applying and waited. One week passed with no news; she followed up. ‘Sorry, we’re running late with a decision but you’re still in the running’, the employer said. Two weeks later still no news, she followed up again and didn’t hear back.
Three weeks later she received an email saying the position had been withdrawn. She was devastated – not only because she really wanted the role, more so because she’d let other opportunities slip by while she was waiting. She felt very foolish and had to start over all again. The problem for her was that as there are only a certain number of contractors that supply cleaners to minesites, it meant having to revisit the two companies that she had cancelled interviews with, adding to her embarrassment.