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Does it specify in the offer? Perhaps you can email HR and ask - say you need some time to think about it.
Depends if OCR or not, in OCR generally 2 weeks or until a date that the school has set. If lateral/experienced hire 1-2 weeks or less.
If its not through OCR, I would say 1 week or maybe 2 seems about right. I've been given 24 hours to accept an offer before.
I've tried looking up what OCR means but I haven't been able to find it? Something recruitment?
I'm wanting to hold out on another position basically the same and even within the same company but different location. 2 weeks would be great. Not sure if 1 would be enough.
It can be depends upon OCR . You have to concern From OCR.,They will providing you detail information .
How long do you have to accept an offer? (Originally Posted: 03/19/2015)
Just received an offer at Piper for their Summer Analyst position...they didn't mention a timeline. What is the typical timeline to accept an offer? I'm still waiting to hear back from Barclays and UBS so I would ideally want to wait 2 weeks. Is this the case for both SA and FT?
Congratulations on your offer. Why not shoot HR an email and get the answer straight from them?
How long do you have until you have to Reply to offers? (Originally Posted: 10/30/2006)
If not specified in the offer letter, when given an offer, how long do you have until you have to reply yes/no?
2 weeks?
3 days?
got a contract today, i have 2 weeks.
should say so though! look again.
I had 5 working days.
5 working days from the verbal offer...but by the time I received the offer(in express post), I only had 3 working days...
December 31st.
December 31st.
How long to accept a post-graduation job-offer? (Originally Posted: 08/31/2010)
Hello, I have been out of school for a year working in consulting and am going to switch back into finance. i received an offer from 1 hedge fund this week and just interviewed with the other one this morning. i was wondering whether I can postpone my decision until I receive from firm 2. A year ago in school our campus had a policy of not issuing exploding offers, so it was not uncommon to have people deciding between offers for a period of 2-3 weeks. however given that there's no policy now, is it still okay to ask for 2 weeks? is 1 week better? I've googled around and it seems like the consensus is 3-5 days, which is quite short...
Its gonna be tough to get a week or 2 from the firm with the offer. The better route would be to tell the firm that has yet to make a decision that you've received an offer from another firm but obviously YOUR firm is my top choice, but one in the hand in better than two in the cho-cha.... and I need to make a decision on the other firm in X days.
Its helpful if you talk to the person who liked you best. Usually when you interview and you get an offer from somewhere you get a sense of X person hired me, because you can sense that they really liked you and championed for you... its probably best to use that person as your point person.
How long do you have to accept/reject an offer you get via networking? (Originally Posted: 03/03/2013)
How long do you usually have to accept/reject an offer you get via a connection?
This question is way too vague.
Depends on the industry and the connection. If it's ibanking and you're still in school and the connection is an alum you networked with, you have a few weeks or more usually. If it's a PE or HF job, you're expected to accept or reject within the next 24-48 hours. If it's a family friend who really pulled strings to get you into some corporate job, then it might be the kind of thing where it's rude to lead someone on like that, so they would probably expect you to accept pretty promptly.
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