What went wrong after the 2nd interview?

[Rhondakf]

I realized I didn't get the job, but this is totally ridiculous when an employer makes contact with you and the job description is perfect according to your skill level and they ask you back for a 2nd interview, you tour the site, they explain the benefits and are interested in you for the next process and promise you a call next week. You follow up with a letter of thanks and you anticipate the phone call and you wait until the end of the week. Soooo you decide to email the potential employer and no response in your email, than you follow up with a phone call and no response. It like you are a ghost that never existed? What happened??????????

[antiguru]

Don't be dishearted. You have no way to know what's going on here. Don't forget that this might just be about another candidate being better (recruitment is after all a way of choosing one candidate over others) or it might be that the person you were dealing with is simply too busy to answer or is relying on an answer from someone else who is dragging their feet.

It's also worth remembering that recruitment is a two way street. Ask yourself if you would really want to work for a company that can't organise a basic recruitment process and move on.

[gammaray]

Maybe the person you saw is on holiday and hasn't tasked anyone to answer their mail. In which case antiguru's last paragraph has a valid point.

[Rhondakf]

Thank you! Good point, but still very odd and you're correct! Why work for a company that is unprofessional who can not organize their recruitment process. I hate the idea that my time was wasted and they gave me false hope of getting hired. I've moved on! Thank you for your quick response, common courtesy is a stamp, phone call or email away....

[WendyS]

It may be because the company is going through a bad financial time (unknown to you) and some senior executive has put a freeze on hiring until things improve. This could mean that anybody in the recrruitment process could get caught in the trap. However, if that were the case I would have expected any reputable company to be up-front with you about it and ask if you would like to be reconsidered for the vacancy when the recruitment freeze was lifted.

Or, do you know somebody at the company who saw you while you were doing a tour of the site with an HR person who decided to dish out dirt on you behind your back?

Or, maybe somebody internal applied for the job at the last moment and they decided it would be cheaper to have an internal promotion? Again, I would have expected a decent company to give you some feedback.