I'm an idiot and forgot about my phone interview.
So I'm a sophomore at a target school. I had a phone interview with a hedge fund, but my school does finals really late, so I was really busy with just passing finals until late January. My interviewer rescheduled from late January to early February because he was late getting home from vacation. Once I got done with finals, I had one week before second-semester classes start, and I was traveling, and had a lot of personal issues on my mind. I completely forgot about the re-scheduled appointment for a phone interview.
What do I do? Just chalk it up as a loss, or do I reach out to their secretary, apologize, and try to get it re-scheduled? No real excuse for this so I know it doesn't look good.
Do nothing=0 chance at internship. Apologize and ask to reschedul=chance at internship
Pretty obvious homie
Agreed with above.. shoot your shot kid
Assuming your rescheduled interview that you missed was very recent, I would advise reaching out as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the worse it looks.
Yeah, don't wait any longer. Reach back out, apologize, and see if it's possible to reschedule.
how's your cryptoportfolio looking? what's your latest move?
LOL
Apologize profusely and try to explain the hectic nature of your schedule. Also mention that your schedule is no excuse, but you were really excited by the prospect of working at firm XYZ and you would love to still be considered, if possible. You're probably fucked, but if it is a small enough firm maybe their hiring process is less systematic.
Forgot to call, crap (Originally Posted: 06/27/2013)
I had cold emailed an MD a couple weeks back, and we set up a meeting two eeks in advance via his assistant. I messed up and marked my calendar for the wrong day and just looked back at his email and realized I was supposed to call two days ago.
Should I email them and apologize for me messing up? Or just email asking if we could reschedule? Or just do nothing and not bring more attention to the Md about the fact that I forgot to call?
Call as if it were according to plan, then blame the assistant if anyone asks.
...don't do that. In all honesty I would just call to reschedule and simply say you marked the wrong date if it's brought up. Don't make anything up because as truthful as it may sound, 99% of the time they are able to see through your bullshit and they would most likely respect you all the more for being honest. Good luck.
This could actually be good. Call the VP, and ADMIT that you screwed up. If anything, it shows that you are a man of your word and don't try to make bullshit excuses for something that you screwed up.
chances are you would've called and he'd have been too busy to talk anyway
Okay, thanks guys, I had kind of figured this was the best route, but reassurance helps. Lesson learned, never again.
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