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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think allowing about 2 days is a good rule of thumb--when a number of candidates weren't writing me back, I sent a follow-up "hey, just wanted to make sure you got our  message.  If you're not interested, that's ok, but it would be helpful to know."  The follow-up got a quick response every time of "yeah, I don't think we're a match."  So then we asked the agency to see if they knew what the issue on our application was, and they did have some concrete feedback, which was sort of a misunderstanding that we fixed.  Then, we had much better luck.

I do understand that not everyone has e-mail and internet all the time.  We do need to be patient and not expect instant communication all the time.  But in this group (18-26 y-os), I think that is the exception and not the rule.  Candidates who have been interested have typically responded quite quickly.

Good luck![/quote]

Thanks for this, PP.  In our previous experience, it was obvious that when they were excited about the match, they emailed back right away.  That's why it made me think maybe there was something in my application that wasn't written well or that was turning off candidates.  I'll ask my coordinator for some feedback - I didn't know you could do that.[/quote]

We were contacting au pairs in Northern Europe, and the placement coordinator supposedly got feedback from the girls through the European office.  And the way the placement coordinator restated the issue to us was what helped us understand where the misunderstanding was taking place.  
I also felt concerned at first so I totally understand looking for perspective about reasonable expectations .  
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