ASK THE HEADHUNTER This job offer is unreal!

[deanwebb]

This job offer is unreal!

In the March 13, 2018 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader waits for a job offer and for the current employee in the job to quit. Question I applied for a job not too far from me. I was invited in for an interview. I went to the interview and did not hear back for two weeks. I e-mailed my potential boss to follow up and he responded by telling me something to the effect of, “I’m so sorry, I was just about to contact you and invite you in for a second interview!” So I went to the second

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[dlots]

I've had those.  It was really quite annoying :-(

[Otanx]

This kind of stuff happens all the time in government. Contractors post job openings for contracts they have not won yet so they can show that if they do win it they have experienced people that are willing to fill the spot. Of course once they win it they end up just hiring the team that was already doing the work. Every once in a while it will be new work, and need new people, but not often.

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

Right, and there's no way to know if you're in the "new work" group or the "holding pattern" group.

[icecream-guy]

Right, and there's no way to know if you're in the "new work" group or the "holding pattern" group.

in the gov'ie world, companies are bidding so low to win the contract, that not only is the contract winner not hiring anybody, but cutting a few of the staff to keep the costs low. ( at least that's what happened in my recent transition,  2 less guys on the team now (was almost 3)).