How To Follow Up After An Interview

How to follow up after an interview - how long you should should wait after your interview to follow up? And what should you say in your email or call? If you had an interview and still haven't heard back from the company, it can be a frustrating experience.

As a recruiter, I am going to share with you how to follow up after your interview, what to say when you follow up and what not to do when following up.

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[rhoonah]

Any head hunter, recruiter or hiring manager that doesn't act professional enough to spend the 37 seconds to send a "thanks but no thanks" email is a jerk.

[benrobinson]

Regardless of when to follow up, the job searching doesn't end until you have a job offer and contract in your email. That's how I see it :) .

[WomanOnTopOnline]

Thanks for this video. I’ve been to many, many interviews and in most cases there was only 1 reason for a recruiter or hiring manager not getting back to you quickly. It’s because they didn’t want you.It’s a tough pill to swallow, but more often than not, that’s the case. Every hiring manager will know within minutes whether you’re a good fit and whether they want to hire you. To take longer than 24 hours to get back to candidates with a simple copy and paste rejection e-mail, is unacceptable and shows a bad work culture. You wouldn’t have wanted to work from them anyway! The recruiter will get back to the successful candidate and forget about the rest. Harsh, but 100% the truth!

[benrobinson]

It's difficult to know how long to follow up sometimes, but after around 1-2 weeks it is certainly worth doing by then. Government positions are notoriously slow when it comes to hiring people as they have to jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops. I've applied for jobs where they invited me for an interview more than a month after application. After that, you have only a few days to prepare. But then after the interview you must wait a month again...

[beltingtokra]

Great video! I was once headhunted on LinkedIn for a "casual chat" at a local company (well it was a good train ride away). I turned up, had a great experience, touring the office, having a go at the job and being coached a little. Then the managing director invites us to his office. All going well until he asks me point blank if i am a qualified x. I was not, so i said no. The "casual chat" turned pretty sour after that and i never heard back. If they had wanted a qualified x they should have asked before i went. 🙄

[TwoGoatsRacing]

I spent 26 years active duty, so I had ZERO interview experience! After my retirement I went back to school, earned my MBA and did some post graduate work. I am currently one of two final candidates for a job that I am SUPER excited about! Our interviews were yesterday. I was given a choice of time, and I picked the first available time. I was nervous, but genuine with my answers. I’m more nervous now…..waiting. I’m glad I found THIS video.

Regardless of the outcome of my current interview, I felt compelled to say thank you for providing these lessons via YouTube. I found them extremely helpful while I prepared for my opportunity.

[johnthornton]

My experience with recruiters is rather poor, 99+% of the time. I get ghosted by the recruiter, the recruiter gets ghosted by the client company, etc. I reach out to recruiters and get no response, or they tell me they got no response. Nothing. It's hopeless.

[YoussefZIbrahim]

If a job seeker have been informed that he/she have successfully completed the first interview and the next step would be to either go through a 2nd interview or get selected for the position. How long should he/she wait before following up with the recruiting manager about the next step?

[arydant]

Things may be very different if your skills are in high demand. In that case you may be pestered by the recruiters and have other opportunities to deal with.

[MannyLoxx]

I don't allow more than 2 or 3 weeks time on a interview process! I'm not spending 4 to 12 weeks to get hired for a job! That's way too long to wait!

[jameboston]

I am at the 4th scenario, and it does feel worrisome since I don't know or have much feedback from the internal recruiter. But faith tells me to calm and carry on with my day until the news comes - so I shall do that and wait without nudging the recruiter. Thank you for your sharing.

[rejectwokeness]

I wouldn't say external recruiters are agents on the candidate's behalf. They are more like acting for the hiring company's interest. If they represent more than one candidate, they could play them off and say things behind the candidate's back if they have a preference. That's why it is best for companies and job seekers alike not to engage the external recruiters cos of the conflict of interest, they don't usually know what to look out for in a candidate most of the time anyway.

[seutatia]

feeling much better! i had a phone screening on tuesday, havent heard back but will wait however long i need to. dream job! thank you much <3

[wenlong]

It can be quite painful when the HR folks literally ghost you after the interview session.
If it's unsuccessful, notify the applicant so that he/she can move things on instead of having to wait indefinitely or being cut loose w/o realising.

[GolfNut]

Got a message like this within 24 hours of the interview:
"Hello, a quick note to let you know that our client enjoyed your meeting and they need some time to assess the candidate pool and decide on next steps. Will keep you posted."

How long should I wait before following-up?

[miggarrivx]

Great video. I completed all interview including with VP. Last Monday HR contact me to the me that I was selected for the job. Told me next step (enter salary expectation on the system). Should I wait or follow up with HR. Great video help me a lot.

[justsnappy]

I had my phone interview with the hiring manager ten business days ago. Haven’t heard anything. Feels like I didn’t make the cut.

[aliaturner]

At my company I applied for an internal position last year and it was over a month from when I submitted my application to when I was interviewed, then an additional few days from interview to job offer. This year the same thing is happening. I applied for an internal position a month ago, nothing yet. I asked the HR recruiter if there were any updates and they said they haven’t started interviews yet. It surprises me that companies wait so long in this market. Isn’t it difficult to find quality candidates right now? Surely quality candidates aren’t waiting months for one position. In my case it doesn’t matter so much because I am internal and have a job already, but it’s shocking to me that no interviews have started. I am hopeful that the hiring manager is just busy with other things and already knows he wants to hire me so isn’t rushing it ;) lol!

[mikejarmoluk]

Isn't this their job? I mean we did the interview, if it was up to us we would assume we got the job.if you were in football tryouts I'm sure the coach would phone you were cut

[sergiomurillo]

The examples for the emails are @4:24 and @7:21.