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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- thank you all for your advice. Also, this was an internal recruiter, i-e someone who works in the company's HR department, not an independent one. I am just wondering if they did like me at the interview, then why wouldn't they contact me again if the other candidate backed out? I would think if you interview a few people and then one person backs out, you would call someone else from your pool of candidates and offer them the job, no?[/quote]

Your reasoning makes sense but you're giving them a lot of credit as well, since you don't know how their internal HR process works. It's quite possible the hiring manager said "I like x, make them an offer." The HR person did so and the offer was rejected, re-neged, etc. Then the hiring manager could have said "ok -- let's re-open the position." The HR person may not have even thought to go back to whoever was number 2 on the list and frankly may not even know who was no. 2. I find HR/internal recruiting to be better (sometimes) than outside commission based recruiters. I've sent polite emails re this type of situation in the past and have gotten a "we're not interested" reply (i.e. we are looking at an internal candidate or we'll keep you in mind) and have also gotten "I will follow up with the hiring manager about you," types of replies. You never know unless you ask and since you don't currently work there, you don't lose anything -- at most they say no, but the answer right now is already no.[/quote]

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