Timeline for How to decline a postdoc offer a few days after accepting it?
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| Nov 13, 2020 at 12:48 | comment | added | Ink blot | @Buffy: Having recently been hiring, I know that the liner notes of the ad read "results are expected by date X, and if you haven't heard by date Y, you can assume the answer is negative". We sent the top candidates their offers within a day or two of the interview. We don't know the OP's situation, and we don't know the situation in the postdoc they should have declined by now. So it's not at all presumptuous to suggest this may very well cause a lot of hassle on the no-longer-hiring side. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 9:37 | comment | added | TooTea | +1 Time is of the essence. OP should realize they're now racing with the #2 (or #3, …) candidate accepting an offer elsewhere. An extra hour of a delay can make all the difference between "No problem, we just hired #2 instead" and "We'll have to scrap the whole hiring process and start from scratch because everyone usable already got a job elsewhere.". | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 15:59 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @Buffy Nobody knows how the advertising prof proceeds. Candidates are likely to interpret a hold-off as a no or waiting list and agree to join elsewhere. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | Buffy | Hmmm. Did you make the mistake of assuming all was well with only a verbal commitment and telling others they'd been rejected? It might have been wiser to wait a bit with rejections or otherwise organize things so that you can meet the advertised deadlines. But, yes, a fast response is required. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 15:52 | history | answered | Captain Emacs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |