<p>Wait … the recruiter said that I was being extended an offer. This isn’t a job interview. Why would the e-mail be a test to weed me out? And I didn’t say exactly, “call me whenever,” I said call me anytime between 11am and 8pm EST next week (still pretty vague). </p>
<p>I’m getting more confused and nervous now. </p>
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<p>I’m holding off calling her for a bit more. It’s still 8am on the West Coast.</p>
<p>Also sent my school’s career center a e-mail. Not expecting a response since we’re on Spring Break…</p>
<p>ab2013, did the offer you get offer specific details? Such as pay, location, when you start, date you must accept by? Does the recruiter just want to answer any questions you have? You sound concerned about the offer…probably the tiny details don’t matter a bit to you, but do you have a question that this is a valid offer?</p>
<p>She probably is just very busy, and though you were trying to be accomodating by offering her the entire week to call, you may have made it easy for her to delay calling you. I would have done the same thing myself.</p>
<p>Again, she called you to discuss details, you still don’t have an official offer in writing. It is a job interview, the job is for an internship, paid or otherwise. Again, you are dealing with detail oriented people and you sounded pretty laissez faire with the “call me anytime”. She very well may be talking to everyone else before you and will give you a call out of the blue tomorrow. Just trying to help you for the future. Pick a few days and exact times early in the calling process and be specific. Even if you are not busy you want to SOUND busy.</p>
<p>I believe you should call her. Call her now, it’s 10am, that’s enough waiting. Ask her what time slots are now open for her to discuss the offer with you, if this is not a good time. And if you get an answering machine, leave a message for her that you would like to discuss the details. You need to get this worked out before you go crazy. It sounds like you do have other potential offers to consider.</p>
<p>I have no idea what your professional experience is, so where you are getting this from, but this just doesn’t jive at all with my experience. </p>
<p>The OP has an offer. Companies don’t make offers, then waste time playing “test the candidate with emails” games. They look at resumes and credentials and do interviews. One has to assume they are looking at a much bigger picture than mincing and splicing words. And nor is it in a field that has 1000s of kids to choose from. Moreover, the OPs response was entirely appropriate, IMHO.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. You’re all just making ab2013 freak out. The truth is, as starbright mentioned, companies don’t make offers and then test out candidates. Its a waste of company time and could have bad retributions to the company’s reputation (and relationship) at the school where they are hiring. When hiring at a big time school like Michigan, if you make that wrong call and hurt that relationship, there’s a possibility of getting banned from recruiting at the school and a notice will probably be sent out to the company’s head. Does the recruiter wish to get fired for not hiring an intern? No. If the company wishes to do a thorough interview process, they should do that during the interview process.</p>
<p>ab2013, if you’re really freaking out and not enjoying your break because of the frustration, give the recruiter a call and tell her that you recently had some events that you’re going to need to plan for whatever reason and would like to schedule a meeting to discuss. I personally think the recruiter is probably still waiting on some documents for your assignment or whatever and/or hasn’t had time to get back to you; a scheduled meeting will definitely help you get this in order.</p>
<p>Surprise: The career center replied to my e-mail. </p>
<p>They strongly advised against calling the recruiter. They told me to e-mail her again tomorrow if she doesn’t call me or reply to my e-mail. They think that I need to give the recruiter more time to reply. </p>
<p>I have this itching urge to call the recruiter … though I probably won’t because I don’t want to anger the career center people (they don’t like me that much) …</p>
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<p>In all honesty, I think there are that many kids to choose from, when you consider the many schools they could choose from inside and outside the country. That said, I had already passed through 2 pretty technical interviews before being contacted by the recruiter with the “Congrats!”</p>
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<p>Well, I already turned down the other 2 that I had. So I still need to get back to the team at the company I worked at last summer really soon because they need the time to look for interns if I choose not to go back. (which I don’t think I will…)</p>
<p>To the OP, in my experience as a consultant, often waiting to hear from clients/potential clients, and sometimes stressing out when days go by & they don’t call when they said they would—usually, I’d say 90% or more of the time, it is something completely unrelated to you that is delaying the call. ie, the Recruiter got slammed with a higher-profile project and pushed the relatively unimportant (to her) job of finalizing your details to the back burner. Or she got sick, or her kid got sick, or …fill in the blank.</p>
<p>I think it is entirely appropriate to check in via phone/voice mail/ email (pick one) to say that you were planning the next few days and wanted to know what her schedule’s looking like as far as discussing the final details. </p>
<p>Keep it relaxed, keep it un-stressed out sounding, and don’t hound her.</p>
<p>Next time, don’t put yourself in the situation of being too open-ended. She’s probably gotten busy and is pushing the call to you off BECAUSE you were so open-ended. She likely has fires to put out that can’t wait.</p>
<p>So–try to relax and not over analyze! For your sake, I hope she calls soon, I’m sure it will all be fine.</p>