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inverview - long post
Hi Ladies. I normally only check on this board every now and then but today I need some advise.
Before Christmas my manager and I had a 1 on 1 conversation where he told me he was approved to post a position for a full time position(I'm currently a contingent worker at the company), told me about the position and also said I was the number 1 canidate for it. Fast Forward some...The thursday before last I had n interview for the position and was told I would hear back the next week. Well Friday rolled around and I hadn't heard anything so asked my mngr if he knew when I'd hear something. He said that HR had scheduled the decision meeting for the next week.
So yesterday I was doing some work from home and checked my mngr's shared calendar to make sure the HR meeting was in place this time. The meeting was not made private and when I opened it up there was not only my interview scores but the names and scores of the other 3 canidates! (I was not the #1 ranking so not getting this job even though I am doing about 1/2 the job now and was lead to believe it was mine if I wanted it.) That part hurts, I won't lie. I sent an email to the HR rep that sent the meeting notice and CC'd the 3 mngrs that interviewed me to please make the meeting notice private so that my results would not be available to my peers and the other candites.
Just need some thoughts and advise. Not sure what is going to happen tomorrow at work but still very hurt/mad/disappointed. What would you do?
Re: inverview - long post
First of all, I think you made a HUGE mistake in emailing the HR rep and asking her to make the meeting private. You just showed him or her that you regularly snoop calendars and were looking at this meeting to be nosy. Not good.
If you hadn't done that, I would have told you to calm down. "Scores" don't necessarily mean you didn't get the job. If they did, why would these people have a meeting about it? If scores were definitive, wouldn't they just offer the job to the person with the highest score without any discussion? They could have ultimately decided to give it to you for other reasons....but honestly, with that kind of email to HR, I think you're out of the running.
I wouldn't be hurt or mad that you didn't get the job - that happens. Be disappointed about it for a bit and then move on. There will be other opportunities.
I also think you made a mistake by emailing and stating that you looked at the information, private or not.
I can't tell you the last time that I actually heard back from a job (promotion in the same place or job at a new place) within the time frame that they stated. At my most recently job they said they would contact me in one week. They offered me the job two hours later. I had one job tell me they would contact me by the end of the week and I was offered the job three weeks later.