[HR Question]How Long Does It Take to Start a New Job?

1-1.5 months sounds about right. Most recently I had a phone interview, then a week later I had an in person interview and the next week I had my final interview. Had there not been weird circumstances I'd have been offered the job at the end of that week. Then, after a 2 week notice, I would have started. So that's 5 weeks in my recent real-life example.

 

I've started a week after an initial conversation before. I've also had it take a couple of months. It depends on how motivated they are to fill a need and your availability.

 

Completely depends on the company. Small companies=faster, unless the owner is a procrastinator. Goliath companies or government can be super slow.

Took me 10 months from application to hire date to get back into the UT system after leaving. I had a few jobs in between.

 

Big companies the interview process might take 2 months, depending on who they find during that process that comes closest to their requirements. And then even after that it's possible to take another month to just get the offer out.

 

If you don't mind . .. why are you leaving teaching?
I have been contemplating going into teaching and . .. well the feedback from people doing it has been . . . .mixed to say the least

Rocket River

 

My latest company the process was about four months of back and forth. 6-7 interviews, a few phone screens, contract negotiations, etc. I wasn't in a rush, because I was still working and traveling for Microsoft at the time... I could have probably gotten it down to about two months. My company is very thorough with new hires due to corporate espionage.

 

We average 2 weeks from posting a job to interviewing. Three days from interviewing to offer. 1.5 - 3 weeks from offer to New Hire Orientation. And that's for field level hires. I've seen it take several months to fill leadership, admin, and HR roles.

 

Turning your back on the kids, huh?

 

Took me about 1.5 month through interview process, background checks, drug screenings and all that crap, once I got an offer letter it was done under 2 days.

 

The whole everyone has to interview cancerous situation has slowed the process down, our CTO was taking three days to decide and letting all the programmers interview too.

What a waste of time I told him he had 4 hours and if he could not decide by then I would take over the entire process.

His retort was Google does it this way, and I was like we ain't google. Hiring someone should not take as long as it does now, you have a lot of ancillary people trying to justify their job nowadays.

DD

 

This.

My last job, I was interviewed and hired the same day, started a week later. Now it looks like I'll be back to the place I worked BEFORE this last job. (Life of a contractor, but, hey, any port in a storm.) As before, though, they're far slower in their hiring process, so it could be 1.5 months of stewing in my own juices before I start. (Worth it, though, for a 3-4 year project.)

 

Took six weeks from first contact to hire for me at an oil major (note: this was out of school so my actual start date was months later by mutual choice). However I had been looking for 7 months before that. So...you know, that's only if you get an offer at all.