HR did not call up for a second Interview. Do I have to contact the Assistant Manager?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I attended an Interview on April 21st with a company. The Senior Manager and HR Executive interviewed me for the first round. I am afraid it did not go well as I could not meet one of their skills.

I followed up with HR Executive on May 2nd to know the status. He replied

As said earlier, your candidature has been referred to IT department and they would like to meet you for next process. I am awaiting some internal clearance post which shall schedule an discussion with CIO.

But I didn't get any calls for next three weeks, so I made a call to HR Executive on May 28th to follow up the process. He replied he has not got any information from higher official yet. I waited again for a week and mailed to Senior Manager on June 9th. But no response yet.

I am worried now whether to follow up or leave this Job as it's bugging me everyday.

1. Any idea why there is no response?
2. Do I have to call Senior Manager itself to know the status instead of mailing again?
3. Is it proper to mail the Assistant General Manager to ask about the status of an application? The reason why I would do this is because the Assistant GM helped me to forward my resume to Senior Manager in the beginning.

manpreet 2 years ago

Any idea why there is no response?

The recruiting process is long by essence. There's a lot of steps, and probably a lot of candidates that passed the first step to process. Especially in a big company where you have to get approval of more people and communication between departments can be harder, slowing the process.

Do I have to call Senior Manager itself to know the status instead of mailing again?

This is a big company, constantly calling the Senior Manager won't accelerate the process, and if they really want to hire you, you'll get an update sometime anyway.

Is it a proper way to mail Assistant General Manager to ask about status? because Assistant GM helped me to forward my resume to Senior Manager in the beginning.

Nothing prevents you from doing it but then again, slow process and maybe they just evicted you. If that's the case, they won't call to tell you most of the time, because a big company won't "waste time" on people they won't hire.

The main question here shouldn't be if you can "harass" the employees of this company until you get an answer (even if that can be very frustrating). The real question is what are you going to do while they don't answer?

I'd suggest to just assume for now that you didn't get the job and they didn't tell you.

Do interviews, clean your suit and keep looking for a job without thinking all the time about "Why didn't they answer me?" because no one will be able to answer you why.