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Followup with a company. - anon

Posted: Jul 24, 2013

Last night I had a company call me because they were interested in me working for them. I had taken the test about 2 weeks prior. My question is how long should I wait to send a followup email? She sounded like she wanted to get me started ASAP but needed to check with my references first. I keep imagining the worst and thinking my references weren't that great and I won't hear back. Thanks so much for the advice!!

I think you have the jitters - anon

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I think you have nervous jitters. You provided the reference names, so they should check out just fine! My current job called my references, but one of the folks was pretty busy and it took them a couple of days to get them the reference from them.

Also with my current job, the transcription supervisor called me, but HR called on the references. HR did all the new hire reference checks, so also had the other staff folks and medical personnel to FU on. If this is your case it may be later into next week.

Is this a large facility? A smaller one might be quicker, a larger one slower. I would say if you haven't heard back by Monday or maybe better Tues, it wouldn't hurt to call back just to see where they are in the process.

I got the job!! - OP

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Yes. I had the nervous jitters and that is not fun. My references checked out just fine. It is a medium-sized facility. Thanks so much for your advice.

Congrats! - anon

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Hey, nice work!

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