Waiting For The Career Offer

If you have been interviewing with various companies over the past several months. And with one of these companies you have actually had three interviews;

 the first being a typical phone screening interview, the second being an interview with key players within the organization, and lastly, an interview with potential co-workers and possibly the company president.

 Days after these series of interviews with the potential employer contacts your references, which leads you to believe that they are interested in making a job offer to you at some point in the very near future. So you wait... And you wait.... And you wait.... And, nothing!

Maybe two weeks after your references had been checked, and your final interview had taken place, you noticed that this particular company placed an ad for the very position you had just gone  three interviews  for. This totally baffles you! So you decide to forget about the experience and move on to seek other opportunities. A month later you see this same particular employer placing  another advert for the very same position you had interviewed for . Now this really gets under your skin!

So for the second time you conclude in your mind  that possibly you are not the most correct fit for the position. You also realize that you still may be a potential candidate and they may be looking for a different type of person to fill the role for possibly you did not have all the pieces they were looking for. So you think.

One more month goes by and you still hear nothing from this particular employer and you have pretty much forgotten all about any job offer coming from this organization. Upon looking for new opportunities in the local "help wanted ads" you discover yet again they place another job posting for that  same position. But this time you realize the possibly it is a good thing you did not get hired by this employer. Your thoughts are if they cannot locate any talented and qualified applicants after four job postings, over a period of three months with more than likely up to 100 potential applicants for this very position, then possibly it is best that you are not working for this particular employer.

So what could be the issue here? Let's see....

1.)Somewhere within the interview chain of events you were not well received by one of the interviewers and thus disqualified for "whatever reason". This could be attributed to a difference of personalities, or viewpoints, based on the conversations you had with these very people interviewing you.

 2.)Possibly your references did not pan out as you had expected. This can happen to anyone, if by chance one of your references had made a statement that possibly could have turned off the potential employer.

 3.)  It could be that the company seeking to fill this particular position has yet to clearly define what the role entails, the place within the organization this person would fit, or have a firm commitment in filling the position anytime in the near future.

So, the lesson here is to not get discouraged. Learn from this experience and take this knowledge to your next set of interviews. Waiting for the job offer can sometimes be a very stressful event. You may think you have done everything correctly and to the best of your ability during the interview process, but quite often it is things out of your control, and quite often, unknown to you, that can get in the way of job search success.