The Hanover Collaboration

I’ve done a little bit of job applications before but never in earnest. I recently lost some naivete that I think I should share with you.

I already knew that hiring people are always very positive. They want to keep their options open. If it is possible under the most improbable set of circumstances that they might want to hire you someday in the future, they want to keep that option. So I don’t get excited when I have good interviews and hear encouraging things from HR or management.

What I didn’t know was how far they’ll go. I just had a job offer rescinded after a month. During that month I passed up a number of opportunities that I’m probably not going to get back.

I just learned to keep hunting until a contract is signed. And if you’re going to be working “at-will”, I would keep job hunting until I had my name on a door… and not in paper.