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BoilerHP:
All,

I was curious what some people have experience as far as time durations between taking the POSS, interviewing, and receiving an offer. I figured I would create the topic since i have seen numerous people ask similar questions.

This is my current situation, I interned with the company in the summer of '08. Pretty much everyone on site and corporate wanted me to go into ops since that is the path of highest success to receiving an SRO. I took the test in October and was not recommended. The interview was directly after the exam at which time I expressed serious concern over my exam and mentioned I would be very surprised if I passed (my gut was of course right). From what I know, I am the only person they brought back to retake. As many of you know I was recommended, but I did not re-interview. After taking the exam I spoke with the HR person proctoring to find out that the people who interviewed me are no longer there. The SOS is now in Maintenance, and the the HR director left to Palo Verde. There was supposed to be a third person, but he "did not need to be there since I was so well known throughout the site". My understanding is that he is now the hiring manager, and from what I gather of the 13-16 people he is choosing from I am likely the only one he has not personally interviewed. To make matters worse, the HR person who was doing the corporate recruiting is no longer with the company as of Thursday (1/29).

I spoke to an on-site HR personnel a few days after finding out that I was recommended and knowing that I had not interviewed with the people that are now doing the interviewing... I gave her my phone number in case the new hiring manager wanted to have a phone interview. I figured this would be good so that way he could get a chance to know me and ease his mind about hiring someone he has not met or interviewed.

It has been a little over a week since I was told that I was "recommended" and have yet to receive any further information, part of the reason I am surprised that I have not heard anything is due to the fact the class starts on the Feb 16th.

Any input from the forum would be appreciated.

My time line:

Oct 15th: POSS & BMST
Oct 16th: Interview
Oct ~18th: Not Recommended  POSS; BMST- PASS
(We want you to retake)

End of Nov: We still want you to retake...

End of Dec: We want you to retake on this date..

Jan 20th: POSS Retake

Jan 22nd: POSS Recommended, recruiter asks me to specify which site I want... which makes me nervous cause at this point I really need to be at the site I interviewed with (personal reasons with location).

Jan 26th: No selections made yet according to site HR

Feb 1st: No further update

Feb 16th: Start date

Thanks again!

Fermi2:
It depends on the company. What position exactly are you interviewing for?
Most likely you're screwed on this one.

Mike

BoilerHP:
NEO with Exelon.

Fermi2:
To Be Honest,

They probably went with those who passed the POSS the first time. I know they'd be the highest on my list as they showed the most focus.

Let's face it, yeah you met some managers but you were only an intern. They always encourage interns to apply but unless you interned in Ops you didn't have any real in. Just trying to spread a bit of truth over what at times seems to be a self created Rose Colored parade. You don't have a background that makes you standout, you're just a former student who happened to spend some time getting to know a company, you have no experience of note. My advice, keep at it, I'm positive you'll get a job someplace. I'm not with Exelon, I've turned them down 3 times, I'm not an expert on when they give offers but usually most companies try to give you a month heads up, unless they're really strapped. My philosophy is you pick the amount of people you want. I don't believe in alternate lists so if someone on your to be hired list says no then you don't offer the job to someone else you weren't going to hire to begin with. That's just me though.

BoilerHP:
Well part of it was the HR person kinda screwed everything up with my first time around... was fired after. What confused me was that they kept telling me I had a position for me, but there has been so much turnover I pretty much think that I may be screwed.

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