2nd interview after serial interview
Does anyone know if the common second interview occurs frequently after a serial interview or does it usually progress through a different path? Wa 'choo talk'n 'bout, Willis? I am totally at a loss about your definition of serial interview. But, from my experience and that of others, entry level and one-step above entry level jobs are handled 9 times out of 10 with just one interview. As a general rule of thumb, the higher up the ladder the position is, the more interviews a candidate will have to go through and each one is more intense than the last. I know people who have had 3 interviews for a job and I have known people who have had more than that. There are phone interviews which culminate with a face to face interview and those face to face interviews are sometimes referred to as second interviews. I'm willing to show up for one day of interviews. After that, they have to be paying me, or I'm not coming back.
Sorry if my original post was unclear. So I interviewed for a job atthe corporate office of a company that deals with e-commerce. Itrequires about 2 years of experience. I cleared a phone interview successfully and that's when they called me in for a "serial interview." By serial interview I meant I had 5 interviews inthe course of three hours back-to-back. Okay, now I get you. I have heard of one day back to back interviews but I have never participated in this. I did interview at a company where the HR person asked me to stay and interview for several positions each in a different department. This was a spur of the moment decision as I was only supposed to interview for one position that day. I have absolutely no idea, so I will just throw out some suggestions: As far as a call back for any other interviews after your day of back to back or "serial" interviews, the reasoning for this even happening may be because the different people you needed to interview with all were available or made the time for availability so that neither you nor they would be inconvenienced with multiple call backs. So, you may not get called back for any additional questioning. On the other hand, I am thinking that it just may be possible that either another phone interview will be conducted by the HR person based on the answers you gave during the face to face interviews or an additional face to face may be asked of you based on those answers. Then again (let's use the right foot), that could be that and a decision will be based on your answers after they are compiled into a hiring report. Final option (stupid left foot), you won't receive any type of call to let you know what is going on, they will be checking your references and background and then you may get a call to inform you of the decision.
New Shopper....lol unfortunately, that will keep you out of some high level and well paying positions. Always be willing to go back if you are truly interested.
Shannon, I don't know, it doesn't seem to have been a problem in the last 20+ years. Sure, if I were interviewing for the VP of Engineering somewhere, that might involve an additional interview, but I haven't been in that situation yet. I wonder where these folks find the time for all this interviewing. I've never been asked to come back except to go to work. My experiance has mostly been 'serial' (I never heard it called that before) interviews. They fly you in the day before, tell you to show up at 9:00 or so, you go from interview to interview, go out to lunch with your potential peers, hit IHR to fill out your travel expense report and have the afternoon to 'get the lay of the land'. They call in few days to let you know what's going on, get an offer or no offer in a couple of weeks. I think I've had an offer 75% of the time. My present job was a 'panel' interview. In this case, they got everyone together all at once, and I interviewed them all together. I liked it better, it donesn't take as long, I was finished by lunch. | |
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