Timeline for Asking to start months after the interview
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| Aug 5, 2021 at 22:28 | comment | added | Abigail | The OP isn't asking for 3 months in addition to the regular amount of weeks it takes to go through the process. His goal is to start 3 months from now. If he were to apply to your company, and your normal process takes 2 months from realizing you need to fill a position to having a candidate accept an offer, he just wants an additional month. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 18:06 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | @xLeitix, ...eh, it depends. I've been at startups where we needed more people with knowledge of a specific specialty (NLP, reverse engineering, development in a specific niche functional programming language, logic-programming engine development, etc) than were generally available on the market, so if a good candidate fell into our laps, we'd find a place. | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 8:26 | comment | added | xLeitix | I doubt that OP is talking about a "really big tech firm", since those in my experience tend to not really think much in terms of "openings" in the first place. The framing of the question sounds like this is a smaller company, where people are more directly hired for very specific jobs. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 22:05 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | For a sufficiently valuable candidate, I'd be glad to do this. But that's not someone only on their second job out of college, unless their first job (and tenure/performance at it) was incredibly impressive. Finding people with the background I'm looking for (background spanning multiple distinct disciplines) is hard. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 14:48 | comment | added | Barmar | Oops, I now see that that clarification to the question was added after you answered. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 14:45 | comment | added | Barmar | "I never had an open position where I was happy to wait more than 3 months to fill it." But according to the inside source, the position isn't currently open, it's not expected to be open until a few months later. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 8:56 | comment | added | R Davies | I had a three month notice period at my previous job, so my new job had to wait three months from me accepting the post. In some industries/countries this is much more normal. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 1:55 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @mxyzplk I could maybe see a really big tech firm doing it; those places are more or less continuously hiring so one of their hiring managers might be ok with hiring 11 people this week instead of the usual 10, and only 9 some week a few months from now. | |
| Aug 3, 2021 at 23:26 | comment | added | hobbs | Maybe a month, for a knowledge-industry job, if you have to move across the country or you have some prior commitment you can claim. But you're still gambling that they're impressed enough with you to wait rather than just restarting the search. | |
| Aug 3, 2021 at 22:43 | comment | added | mxyzplk | +1. I'd only do it if I had a basically unlimited number of roles I needed to fill, thus no opportunity cost for hiring someone that'll start 3 months out. | |
| Aug 3, 2021 at 21:23 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2021 at 21:08 | history | edited | Kilisi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2021 at 18:49 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |