Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Don't say no to opportunities too soon!

No kidding- this one deserved a special little post of it's own. A candidate applied to us less than two weeks ago. Our search committee just met in the past few days and finalized our list of candidates we want to interview at TPE. We made contact with those candidates and invited them to schedule with us. Not an unusual way of going about this endeavor.

Today I received an email from a candidate letting me know how disappointed she was that we took so long to contact her, that clearly our institution didn't move quickly enough for her and that she was withdrawing from our search because she had already been contacted by so many other employers who were clearly more interested in her.

Now- I get it that some of you feel really confident about your candidacy. I understand that someone probably advised her to take this approach in her search. However, please remember that every employer has their own procedures to follow, their own processes, their own preferred approaches. Some of you might not be contacted until you arrive at the placement conference and if you haven't left yourself some time for those opportunities that come close to or while on site, you might just regret it.

Trust the process- and don't say no too quickly!

The Employer

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