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Should I Go Around My Recruiter And Contact Firm?
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Date: May 31st, 2013 10:07 AM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Three weeks ago was the final interview.
Two weeks ago my recruiter emailed me and told me that the firm's HR person said that I'm the one they selected for the position and that an official offer would come once they finished all the admin/sign off shit.
Last week recruiter emailed me and said HR told her that they think an offer should come this week.
It's Friday and still no offer.
Nearly every instance the recruiter has contacted them for an update has been the result of me emailing her asking her the status. Both when she emailed me about the selection and the pending offer were emails responding to me asking for a status update.
I emailed her Wednesday night to check status, she said she was going to call the firm Thursday (yesterday). She hasn't sent me an email letting me know wtf is going on or whether she even called.
Should I just call the firm HR directly? |
Date: May 31st, 2013 10:14 AM Author: Useless Laser Beams Abode here's a hint: you didn't cop the jerb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23304048) |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 10:25 AM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Should I contact the firm directly? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23304119) |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 10:43 AM Author: purple theatre national security agency Xoxo: a pretty fucking shitty source of actual advice.
Bro, I'd call your recruiter now. Give that asshole til lunch to get you some info. If no word, I'd call direct. What are they going to do, decide not to hire you because you made a phone call? It's nbd. |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 11:33 AM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed I went with your advice.
Recruiter emailed me back: "[HR] just followed up with the partner and is waiting to hear back. She thanks you for your patience!"
ok........
Sounds like she didn't contact them until just now when I asked the status. |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 11:35 AM Author: Umber wild nibblets Lol bro they backed out on you and your recruiter is giving you the run around so you won't give her a bad yelp review. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23304495) |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 2:55 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Contacted the firm directly and got a full explanation of wtf is going on. It's pretty funny, but I'm not going to post it here for risk of outting.
I suspect the recruiter was keeping this stuff from me because she was afraid I would turn down their offer if I knew what was going on. |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 3:00 PM Author: Curious lavender gunner in other words, recruiters suck. don't use them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23305464) |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 3:02 PM Author: Supple puce locale recruiters can be useful if you're changing city otherwise you should have a big professional network within your first year as an associate, that should be goal #1 after not getting shitcanned |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 3:09 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Yeah, this.
Unfortunately, I'm changing cities. |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 3:02 PM Author: Supple puce locale firm partners leaving lol OUT DAT FURM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23305473) |
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Date: May 31st, 2013 3:17 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed No comment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23305557) |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:12 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Another week goes by...
I spoke with a partner at the firm today (I've just given up on the recruiter). There is a hiring freeze in place and the group is having to submit a bunch of information to the exec committee. Shit regarding their workflow and hours in order to justify hiring me.
Partner said he's never seen the committee deny a hire once a group does that, but that it's always possible.
LJL.
Sucks. The group seemed like a decent group of attorneys. Guess I better get back to interviewing... |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:14 PM Author: purple theatre national security agency yeah, time to start sending out resumes breh
how is your current situation, were you in a hurry to leave? |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:17 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed My current firm is fine, I just wanted to relocate. I'm only in a hurry in that I'm ready to move. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23365981) |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:19 PM Author: purple theatre national security agency sucks bro, but at least you can hang in a decent situation while you look.
good luck.
also, you should out the recruiter/firm once you know for sure you didn't get it. |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:23 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed Will do. Maybe even shoot something to ATL about how the firm is doing so poorly they enacted a hiring freeze. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23366009) |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:17 PM Author: bat shit crazy property LOL @ these incompetent shitboomers and their bureaucratic shrew overlords. My condolences, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23365980) |
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Date: June 10th, 2013 1:18 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed TY TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23365986) |
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Date: June 12th, 2013 3:40 PM Author: Glittery slate church building half-breed LOL - Recruiter contacted their HR lateral manager to try to get a timeline. HR person's response:
"[We] explained that the delay was not any indication of whether we thought he was a good candidate, we are just moving through the arduous internal process. We will be in touch once we have an update." |
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Date: June 12th, 2013 5:18 PM Author: purple theatre national security agency they're going all arduous and shit for you bro. that jerb should be yours any day now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2269913&forum_id=2#23382034) |