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!