Getting Ghosted After Meeting that Went Extremely Well?
Hey WSO, so I am pretty young and met with the founder/CEO of a fund a few weeks back. The meeting went extremely well. We bonded like old friends over a lot of things and he spent much more time with me than was warranted considering that it was our second meeting after a really brief interaction - even put a call on hold to introduce me to the investment team. Since then, HR has been pretty nonexistent and acting as if they did not know who I was. How do I follow up? Do I reach out to his assistant and say that I am super interested? Really need some advice here. Thanks!
Do you have the Founder/CEO's direct contact info?
His assistant’s - he doesn’t have work contact and has everything go through assistant. Would it be okay to contact her even though I contacted HR? I don’t want to cause any confusion at the firm.
Yes, contact the assistant directly. Don't worry about HR - they're worthless anyway.
Reach out as direct as you can, starting with the CEO. If you don't have his number, then go to his #2, than #3. If you try a couple of times and nothing happens, then it is what it is. In this day and age if someone doesn't contact you thats a sign.
It happens to all of us those. I've been in meetings or phone interviews that were somewhat short, I was a good fit, didn't say anything that would have dinged me, yet it just didn't work out. Happens sometimes. Have to look at it as instead of spending of a bunch of time on something that isn't right, spend that time finding a new opportunity.
Based on what you said, I don’t even know why you even reached out to HR. Obviously more details are needed, but it sounds like you did not do a good job of letting the HR know that you now have a direct contact with the CEO. HR wouldnt ignore that
I explicitly mentioned that I enjoyed meeting with the CEO and wanted to follow up. The response completely ignored that.
Shoot an email to the CEO assistant and make sure that your email says that you met with the CEO - just try to communicate in that email that you're following up like the CEO told you to do or whatever. Structure it in such a way that the assistant thinks "Okay let me go tell the CEO about this email", in a way that makes sense with the context of your meeting..etc...
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