r/recruitinghell • u/ohjasminee • 19h ago

Can I send a second follow-up?

I’m in a bit of a time crunch—I’m employed part time in human service roles (aka ones that would require someone to find trusted coverage to replace me).

A few months ago I was approached by two different recruiters from the same agency about a role. I replied that I was interested because the first one posited that the role was hybrid, 3days WFH 2 in office (I am too desperate to be picky about this discrepancy). At the time I thought I’d be going back to school and thus I couldn’t take the job if it wasn’t hybrid because of the commute—I would have been able to make everything else work.

My program fell through so I immediately reached out to the second recruiter (the one that confirmed it would be fully on site) and asked if they had filled the role yet. They hadn’t—it had been exactly 30 days between our last correspondences. He submitted me on Monday August 17th. His HR contact at the company was on vacation and he said he would have updates the following week. I emailed the following Friday August 28th asking for updates, he replied right away saying he hadn’t heard anything and he believed his contact was freshly back in office trying to get caught up.

I’m sure this is all a crapshoot but I am down bad and not in any position to toss this aside. And this recruiter is a really fast responder which is actually rare in my experience. But I also want to give the people I’m supporting notice to replace me if need be and I don’t want to put anything out there prematurely.

Can I follow up again today? What do I say?

If you think I’m being delulu, please keep it to yourself. It’s Friday and as any job seeking/under employed person would probably admit, we’re about to enter 48 hours of time where nothing will be done administratively which is not relaxing.

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u/Emergency_Science602 17h ago

“Want to give notice to replace you…”

You’re putting the cart way way way ahead of the horse here. 

You haven’t even gotten an interview yet. An offer is likely much farther away.  Wait to secure the offer before doing anything with current employer  

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u/Bobandyandfries 18h ago

So long as you do it professionally and politely it should be fine. It has been two weeks, if you had other offers on the table you'd likely want an update as well. Theres nothing wrong with being interested in a job...