Hi All, I had my 1st Accenture interview last week Thursday and waiting for a response. My interview confirmation email did say response will be within 10 working days but my interviewer told me i should get a response from HR within 1-2 days. The conflict of info has left me a bit confused and anxious. Do i keep waiting till next week (when 10 working days is up)?Or do i get in touch with HR now? Could duration have anything to do with success or failure of interview?Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

When have you known a HR department to be able to do ANYTHING within 1-2 days?Give them a bit more time... I'd say call after a week.

LOL @ Bushy Eyebrow Partner. I know right! They all seem to be the same everywhere! Its been a week already though as i had the interview last week. Do you mean i should wait one more week?

Ah, just give them a ring. Why not, at the very least it shows you're proactive. Maybe wait 3 more days until their 10 day service level agreement is up.

Unless your interviewer was the global head of HR or the most senior Partner within spitting distance then disregard what they told you and go with the formal timeline from HR.HR isn't actually part of the business itself, its there to protect the business - its a compliance function really, its all about risk management. As such they take their time to ensure mistakes cant be made, but at the same time are bound rigidly by their own processes.Give them the 10 days then call the interviewer

Fair point @marsday. Anxiety is just an absolute sucker!

Ok...[b]UPDATE[/b] on this: its been over the stipulated 10 working days now (14 working days to be exact) and i'm yet to get anything back from ACN. I have emailed the recruitment specialist in charge of my application and yep...that's right....no response (typical HR atttitude #Nasty). What's even worse is my ACN referral tried to get in touch with the same specialist firstly via email and then secondly via IM but she just chooses to ignore. I'm not sure what do do now as i'm running out of ideas. I don't have the contact details of the manager that interviewed me but i know he's on LinkedIn. Tempted to mail him on there but not sure how it'll look. Anybody experienced similar and can advise? Any ACN employee on here that can give effective pointers?Or does it just mean i didn't make it past 1st interview?

[quote]Ok...[b]UPDATE[/b] on this: its been over the stipulated 10 working days now (14 working days to be exact) and i'm yet to get anything back from ACN. I have emailed the recruitment specialist in charge of my application and yep...that's right....no response (typical HR atttitude #Nasty). What's even worse is my ACN referral tried to get in touch with the same specialist firstly via email and then secondly via IM but she just chooses to ignore. I'm not sure what do do now as i'm running out of ideas. I don't have the contact details of the manager that interviewed me but i know he's on LinkedIn. Tempted to mail him on there but not sure how it'll look. Anybody experienced similar and can advise? Any ACN employee on here that can give effective pointers?Or does it just mean i didn't make it past 1st interview?[/quote]The recruiting manager won't be able to help - he'll have passed your interview scores onto HR so it's with them I'm afraid. The recruiting specialists tend to be quite hard to get hold of so I wouldn't read too much into that.There's a massive recruitment drive at the moment, I suspect they're just struggling to keep up!

So i finally heard back after chasing up again; HR lady says note passed unto her from interviewing manager says i'm technically strong but not strong enough on the consulting side of required skills. She asked me if i thought this was a fair feedback and i said No. She asked why of which i mentioned how the interview only lasted 20mins instead of closer to the one hour mark mentioned and i didn't feel i was given a fair crack at the interview. It almost felt like the manager had his mind made up before ringing me.Anyway i don't see anything coming out of that now even though the lady was surprised when i mentioned the 20mins duration and said she'd take that feedback back to the interviewing manager. Oh well...unto the next one :)

20mins? Wow...Were you only asked a couple of questions or what? and was this a phone interview? If a phone interview then normally it would be the standard set of 1st round interview questions. If these were all posed as required then it unfortunately comes back around to what you replied with and the depth of each response?? That's really the only meaningful reason I can think of as to why a 1st round interview could end so quickly....

Yep. It was a telephone interview.

Did the telephone make it through to the next round?

If possible could you please send me your resume at saadqureshi45@gmail.com?Actually i have been trying for various graduate positions but i haven't received any call yet?I just want to take an idea.Thanks

How does the CV of someone who didn't make it through the telephone interview give you an idea? Idea of what?