The way that you see your experience isn’t easily communicated in a resumé but is discernable once you’re conversing with the team.
RADIO SILENCE VS NO CONTACT PROFESSIONAL
You’re not quite what we’re looking forĪs the manager of a multidisciplinary team, I select unique candidates who are somehow different from the rest of my team, but this kind of team-building can mean that, despite an outstanding resumé and a stellar interview, I might think that your education and experience are too similar to the professional background of another team member. If you only meet 60% of the qualifications and requirements of a job posting, the hiring manager will focus on the reasons why you think you are a good fit for the job and ask whether you would be open to learning the skills that the job requires. You may be willing to learn the skills you need, but if the manager suspects that your resumé is a lie, they won’t hire you. On paper, a job candidate can skate to the next round using this tactic, but in person, you may be required to discuss this topic at length and describe how you would use that experience to propel the company forward. In my experience, both men and women who feel lacking in a specific area will find ways to make one relevant detail in their resumés into the crux of their entire application. Senior executives at Hewlett-Packard have suggested that women will apply for a job when they meet most, if not all, of the requirements of a job posting, while men are comfortable applying at much lower levels of qualification. Fess up: did you embellish a little? (A lot?) It could be internal red tape and emails that haven’t connected. If you think the interview went great and were expecting the offer, trust your gut. …Or was it HR that was supposed to follow-up? Did anyone in HR send out an email to clarify? Gary, could you touch base and find out where we are? These situations happen easily in a busy company environment.
Once the hiring manager has decided they would like to extend an offer to you, that manager needs to contact HR. It could also be that internal communication has been unclear. Once the manager returns, they’ll trudge through all the email from the last few weeks, until they get to the swath of HR messages that say, “We still need a decision on this person!” It’s super-convenient for the manager, but it’s not so convenient for you, since you have no way of knowing about the travel. Perhaps they squeezed in your interview just before going on vacation. Maybe this was an inconvenient time for your soon-to-be supervisor.
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