Help! IB Interviewing Dilemma
A dilemma I'm facing in the interview process for a FT Analyst position with a regional boutique:
As per the firm's ad on my university's jobs sight, I emailed an alum who is an MD. Without replying to me, he forwarded my resume and cover letter to an associate who almost instantly gave me a call to chat about the company. He seemed to like me and said he would shoot me an email to schedule the second, more technical phone interview once he was able to coordinate schedules with their current analysts. Ten days ago he apologized for not scheduling anything with me sooner and that as a result of limited bandwidth with their junior bankers, they were focusing on post grad recruiting that week. He said he anticipated that he would be reaching out to me over the weekend or first thing Monday to set something up. He told me to let him know in the mean time when I would be free the following week (this week) to interview. I replied, telling him that early afternoons were best, though I tried to elucidate that I would make myself available at their convenience. I never received a reply.
In light of the silence, I sent the associate another e-mail yesterday reiterating that I would make time for the interview whenever is most convenient for them. Still, no reply.
I'm wondering whether I should keep waiting (for fear of annoying them), e-mail the Associate again, e-mail the MD again or perhaps call HR.
What do you think you would do in my situation? Are there any other options?
That said, if you can offer any advice, thanks so much for your time. Hopefully I'll be able to pay it forward to the WSO community when I break in.
I understand your paranoia; but you still need to try to calm down. There's a million reasons these guys don't follow up, & none of it you can do anything about. If I were you, I'd stay persistent. 2/3, it's going to be effective: 1) They actually did get really busy & forget about you, so a reminder email could jog their memory, 2) They're on the fence about you for some reason, doesn't matter what. Pestering them at this point may aggravate their delicate sensibilities or it may show them how badly you want to work for them. So out of the three scenarios, 2 out of the 3 will benefit you. And seriously how much of a nuisance is an extra message in their box? I mean, don't spam them, but every two days our so could work. It could also irritate them, you just have no way of knowing.
Stay professionally persistent thats what Ive been told by alums in the industry. Don't cross that line to be annoying and push him back, for all you know he's pulled abck to back all nighters and doesn't really have the time or energy to care about the position at this very moment. What I do, which ahs worked very well is send an email once a week accompanied by a phone call halfway through the week. If you phone first, say you will follow up with an email on X day, and make sure to do it and vice versa. Show them your interersted, don't annoy them, and show them you are organized.
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