by Ashley
When you’re on the job market, does it look bad if you don’t reply to emails instantly??? (ugh, groan!) : /
After dropping the girls at preschool this morning, I did my usual routine – I hit the gym, and settled in to do some work. I opened up one of my emails (I have one email account with each school I work for plus a personal gmail account, for a total of 3 accounts), and saw an email about a position I recently applied for (this is the position that recently asked me to submit additional information).
They want to schedule a phone interview. (Yay!)
They wanted to do it an hour ago, Monday at 9am (No!!!!)
I check the time stamp and realize the email had been sent on Saturday morning, about 10am. I feel like an idiot because (1) I think it makes me look flaky that I didn’t respond for 3 days, and (2) I completely missed the time slot during which they wanted to talk to me! Ugh!!!
So, of course, I quickly composed an email response and I’ve got my fingers crossed that we’ll be able to do the phone interview later this week.
Back to my question……how bad does this look???
Normally I vigilantly check my email(s) multiple times a day. I really don’t know how this email slipped through the cracks! Does it make it any better that this was Thanksgiving weekend? Like, maybe I get a “pass” on not having been to-the-second current on my emails???
Blah! I’m really disappointed in myself for missing this, but I’m hopeful that this is a good sign that they are interested in me. Fingers crossed that they will overlook this timing issue and still allow me to interview this week! : /
