What's going on with this job?

Sour Lemon · Jun 2, 2018

I applied for a per diem position over two months ago now, received one of those personality surveys and completed it. Called the HR department after about a month, they said the hiring managers had received the resume but hadn't reviewed it or made any moves yet. A week or so ago, I noticed the job posting had been removed, but when I log into their system, my status is still "applied," as it has been since March. I'm going to try to call them again on Monday, but any ideas what's happening? Do you reckon they're sorting resumes still, or more likely that the job has been filled or pulled? (I'd be a prime candidate for this position btw, so would be surprised to not even get an interview.)

That sounds like an unreasonably long wait, to me. It could be that they post positions for jobs they're not actually looking to fill at the moment, though. Some employers run perpetual ads so they'll have a fat stack of applications to consider when something actually opens up.

allnurses Guide · Jun 3, 2018

Don't bother calling. They aren't hiring. Keep looking elsewhere.

DowntheRiver · Jun 3, 2018

I agree with the posters above. However, I will say that some places are just slow. I applied for an internal position a month ago that I know they are desperate to fill but the recruiters go in posting order so they're still a week behind.

caliotter3 · Jun 3, 2018

Don't bother calling. They aren't hiring. Keep looking elsewhere.

My new to the workforce grandson is going through the same process with online applications. In one case it was made to look like it went through a 'decision tree' to finally get to the same result as the other applications. Some form of telling him that he logged onto the site because he was foolishly hopeful. The best way to reject an applicant is to ignore them until the application is well past the realm of reason age-wise, then, in effect, tell the applicant to get lost, while making the applicant wonder what they did wrong by applying for that position. As NDY says, don't waste your time and look elsewhere.

Jules A, MSN · Jun 3, 2018

In my experience PRN jobs can take forever although I rarely do the HR only route so there is usually inside info coming my way. If you want the job, I'd call one more time.

NuGuyNurse2b · Jun 3, 2018

If you haven't heard back within 2 weeks I'd say move on. I've had interviews where they say "oh it'll take us a few weeks to get back to you" but that was just a plain lie (and rude to make someone wait that long); I never heard back. Don't go by what your status on their application portals say, either. I just recently got a bunch of notices in my email for jobs I've applied to over a year ago telling me I didn't get them. Clearly someone decided to go in and clean up the system a bit.

TriciaJ, RN · Jun 3, 2018

I once worked for a place that would "batch" the interviews. That means they would wait until six likely candidates applied and then arrange to interview them all the same day. That way the manager and the HR person wouldn't "waste" their own time. Trouble was, it could take weeks to get six people scheduled. By that time most of them had accepted other offers. I used to sit in on these interviews; typically we'd get four no-shows and two interviewees turn up. Surprise surprise, the two that turned up weren't usually that stellar.

I did bring this up with our manager, that we might be losing a lot of potentially good employees that way. Deaf ears.

AJJKRN · Jun 3, 2018

I agree with the posters above. However, I will say that some places are just slow. I applied for an internal position a month ago that I know they are desperate to fill but the recruiters go in posting order so they're still a week behind.

Yep, my HR is just as slow as it was 10+ years ago and my employer has grown exponentially in that time. I'm convinced it's what adds to our staffing shortage...

FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN · Jun 4, 2018

Some places do take a very long time. I applied for a job in early March and was offered an interview in late may. I had already accepted another position.

Follow up with them, but don't wait for them. Keep looking.

Coffee Nurse, BSN, RN · Jun 5, 2018

Huh. Well, got the "position has been filled" email today. Bit unsettling as I'd certainly expected to at least be called for an interview...but at least now I know?

Mavrick, BSN, RN · Jun 6, 2018

I was on the other side of the job-no job dilemma.

I was interviewed, got offered and accepted a job. Then I had to wait 2 weeks for the job to be "officially" posted. I felt sorry for anybody who applied for that job cuz it really wasn't available. They only went through the motions of posting it.