This really gets under my skin. When a person is applying for a job, he has decided to make a big life change. So she goes through the application process and hopes for an interview. The timeframe that companies have from application deadline to notification of interview varies hugely. This is where I have my beef, any time frame longer than 2 weeks is just unacceptable. Those applicants have their lives hanging in the balance and need to know what is going on. Yet HR departments can have total disregard for the potential employees. Worse yet is when there is a long delay between the interview and notification of success/or not. Here, I think anything past a few days is out of bounds. I once waited 3 weeks between an interview and notification. It drove me nuts.
What can we do? Well when we serve on hiring committees, we should encourage our supervisors to push for reasonable notification of candidates. I do this with my supervisor all the time. We've all been on the receiving end and anything we can do to help those candidates is simply exercising our own professional responsibilities.
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