How to Respond to No Response
If you were invited to an in-person interview and felt you did well but still haven’t heard back (even after you sent a thank you note), here’s what to do: nothing.
That’s right. Let it go and move on.
Many of the jobs posted on the Internet aren’t actual jobs anyway. They are postings from people in your very own field who want you to send them YOUR resume so they can see how you are presenting yourself in THEIR same field. Perhaps the posting demands you send your salary history or they won’t even consider you at all. That’s someone wanting to know how much you made so he can compare it to what he thinks he ought to be making. Maybe the job was posted by a Recruiter who needs to make his monthly quota for resumes received. There’s really no job available, but he has to accept so many resumes per week to show he’s doing his job.
Maybe it’s a real company you responded to and finally got invited to an in-person interview. You did well, you answered all their questions, you were presentable, sharp, and prepared. You had a strong handshake, you looked them in the eyes, you laughed at the right moments, and came up with excellent examples of how you would handle specific scenarios they threw at you. You left feeling confident and hopeful. As soon as you got home, you sent thank-you notes to each person who interviewed you at the company.
Little did you know that they already had the ideal candidate picked out but simply had to go through the motions to show in their documents that they actually really did interview 15 candidates. The friend of the cousin of the brother-in-law of their top sales executive got the job.
Meanwhile you’ve received no word. You rehashed the last few words of the interview over and over in your mind. You are certain they said they would make a decision in the next few days and get back with you.
It’s been a week. A month has gone by. Still no word. Are you really still thinking about it?
After you have sent the thank-you note, you turn it over to God and move on. You pray, you send out more resumes to different postings, and you move on.
You do NOT become one of those people who wastes precious time WEEK UPON WEEK complaining over and over again to others (whether over the phone or on some forum on the Internet) how you are still waiting for them to call you back and offer you the job.
Forget about it.
Let it go.
Turn it over to God.
Put your energy, your thoughts, your prayers, and your time into other things – sending your resume to new postings and places where you’d like to work even if they aren’t posting, starting your own at-home business, visiting your Grandpa, walking your dog, going to the beach, setting a crab free, praying.
Tags: after the interview, no job offers, no response, when the recruiter doesn't call back
