What's the longest you went from interview to being hired for a job, to starting the job?

[smahala1991]

Most jobs I've had they interview you and hire on the spot. This time around I did a group interview, then a second interview, and 2 weeks later I got the offer, then after the background check they did the paperwork and setting up my work profile info. They sent me my equipment Friday, and My initial start date is Tuesday with orientation on Friday (Tuesday to Thursday is tech check days with a scheduled appointment for one day but we still get paid 4 hours a day starting Tuesday even if it's not out tech check day.

[sage2021]

You asked what the longest was, so I'll tell you about that job.

I remember that interview because it was pouring down rain, and the man that interviewed my thought I wasn't going to show up. So I told him that if I was working that day I would have to come into work - right?
We had a nice interview so I couldn't understand why I didn't hear back from them. After he hired me, he asked me why it took me so long to start the job. It was a month since my interview.
I said I just heard from Human Resources yesterday. They told me I got the job, and I was to start the next day. So I did. It was a surprise to him that I was there after a month went by.
He told me as soon as our interview was over, he had called Human services and told them to hire me. The people was, they never called me like he had asked them to.
What a terrible mix up. And here I continued looking for work that whole month and I already had a job. 🙄

[jennifer_bloom]

I had one job that took weeks to get hired in. It wasn't a high level job but it was an entry position with the possibility of promotion so there was high competition for it. There may also have been some questionable conduct behind the hiring practices cause the second portion of the form was something I'm not sure I ever filled out and then I was not given a badge until almost a week of work after the employer had witnessed that I was a reliable worker, maybe if I had been poor at my job, I would have been dismissed without pay cause I did not even have a name tag or a key until one week on the job.

[Sam161]

I've had a terrible year and haven't secured a job till recently. I was trying not to go back into what I was doing before and obviously that's just really hard because a lot of companies that I was applying for wanted experience. I ended up going back into where I used to do before now is there any way to get a job and I really needed to get a job

[Nirghata_Vrishaghata]

Current job :-

1st interview : Jan 2022.
2nd interview :-Feb 2022.
3rd interview :- April 2022.
Offer letter : July 2022. I rejected due to low salary.
Counter offer 2 weeks later and accepted.
Visa, security clearance and everything, I started work November 2022.

[exitseven]

I had to go back for 3 interviews. It was about 2 weeks. They had to get a guy to come from NY to interview me. If they were going to tell me I had to come in for a 4th interview I was going to tell them to forget it. Instead they told me I was hired.

[Anonymous]

I think probably the longest was about a week. Interview, drug testing, background checks, paperwork/finger printing, security clearance, access keys needing to be made, started a week later. This was a very serious corporate job where quite literally, there were several floors I had no access to because of company secrets. This was the type of place where if you lost your keys, you were investigated, lol, so I could see why they made you go through that whole process.

[Unit1]

2 Months.

Nowadays I am experienced and recruiters are trying to get me to change jobs even though I am inactive in those job platforms and set my job seeking status to "not currently looking".

[Redstang88]

Pretty sure I’ve only had 2 proper job interviews in my life, and I declined both offers.
When I’ve been on the job hunt I’ve usually got a yes or no right on the first call and started within a few days

[CaptainSmartass]

It was about a couple of months, but they were doing quite a few interviews, and they needed to find a team with a suitable vacancy, as its quite a large organisation.

Simples...

[Pudsmucker]

I've learned in the past through my interviews if I make it past 45 minutes I will probably have the position that I've applied for. If it goes past an hour you know you have a job.

[najekim]

My current job was 3 months from hire to start date. DoD paperwork, moving across 6 states, etc.

[justcuri0usaboutlife]

5 months due to it being a new grad program that starts later in the year.

[FunkyMonkee]

A couple weeks to about a month.

[msc545]

1 hour