Accepted a job offer and asked for my name to be corrected on the job offer then got no response

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I received a very good job offer Last Wednsday after conducting 3 interviews with HR, Delivery Manager, Program Manager. People were really nice and gave me extremely positive feedback, and even said they can't wait for me to join the team.

The HR called me before sending the offer and said that she wants me to reply on the same day. Start date was set tothe first of october as we agreed to put it likr that until i negotiate it with my boss.

I replied to the mail, accepted the offer but i did not sign it as both my first and last name were written incorrectly. I accepted by mail and asked them to correct it so i can sign it. A day after i resigned and agreed with my boss that my last day will be 31st of August so again i emailed the HR and informed them with my updated availability date.

Its been 5-6 days now and i have gotten 0 replies, when should i start to worry and how often should i be bugging them? I dont wanna seem impatient or show that i want the job too much but i already resigned so there is no going back.

manpreet 2 years ago

This could turn out to be no issue, the employer set October as an acceptable start date, and you've updated to say beginning September, but there are big mistakes here:

1. Name - I would have crossed out the bad spelling, and fixed it, then signed.
2. Bigger point - I wouldn't have resigned until I had all paperwork sorted, dates agreed, and know there are no other conditions to the offer (background check, credit check?). This goes triple as it sounds in comments like it's an international move.

It's not out the bounds they could go cold on you, given they wanted to get it fixed that day, and you sent the offer back unsigned. I wouldn't email, but phone and find out the status. You may find it's fine, but you may need to try and backpeddle at current job/ find a new job NOW.

In future don't jump until you know the net is really there, not just someone has said it will be if you agree to jump.