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Does anyone know how firms handle callbacks from a general numbers standpoint? I've got a callback on Tuesday and I'm just curious if I'm competing against 1000 people or 100 for the 30 or so SA slots. Are firms more selective at screeners or callbacks?

ejlions84 wrote:Does anyone know how firms handle callbacks from a general numbers standpoint? I've got a callback on Tuesday and I'm just curious if I'm competing against 1000 people or 100 for the 30 or so SA slots. Are firms more selective at screeners or callbacks?

You've got about a 40% chance of turning a CB into an offer. It varies firm by firm, but even at extreme firms its still over 20%.

Firms will give probably 3-4X as many offers as they have SA spots because people turn them down.

Desert Fox wrote:You've got about a 40% chance of turning a CB into an offer. It varies firm by firm, but even at extreme firms its still over 20%.

Firms will give probably 3-4X as many offers as they have SA spots because people turn them down.

Are you getting 40% roughly by SA class size/#CBs ?

olive16 wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:You've got about a 40% chance of turning a CB into an offer. It varies firm by firm, but even at extreme firms its still over 20%.

Firms will give probably 3-4X as many offers as they have SA spots because people turn them down.

Are you getting 40% roughly by SA class size/#CBs ?

No, by offers / Cbs.

2 firms that I had CBs with in the V50-75 range in So Cal stated they were "calling back" roughly 6 candidates per spot available. It basically makes CBs feel not that special and is quite annoying....but that's what 2 independent recruiters told me.

Anonymous User wrote:2 firms that I had CBs with in the V50-75 range in So Cal stated they were "calling back" roughly 6 candidates per spot available. It basically makes CBs feel not that special and is quite annoying....but that's what 2 independent recruiters told me.

Yeah they may give offers to 2 or 3 for each spot available, so that actually makes sense

Thanks for the replies, great info

rad lulz wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:2 firms that I had CBs with in the V50-75 range in So Cal stated they were "calling back" roughly 6 candidates per spot available. It basically makes CBs feel not that special and is quite annoying....but that's what 2 independent recruiters told me.

Yeah they may give offers to 2 or 3 for each spot available, so that actually makes sense

They may have to give even 4-5 depending on what happens.

ejlions84 wrote:Does anyone know how firms handle callbacks from a general numbers standpoint? I've got a callback on Tuesday and I'm just curious if I'm competing against 1000 people or 100 for the 30 or so SA slots. Are firms more selective at screeners or callbacks?

Totally depends on the market if you want to get into a what's the percentage of call backs that will lead to offers guessing game. NALP has stats on this based on the market, I think.

p1arnold wrote:

ejlions84 wrote:Does anyone know how firms handle callbacks from a general numbers standpoint? I've got a callback on Tuesday and I'm just curious if I'm competing against 1000 people or 100 for the 30 or so SA slots. Are firms more selective at screeners or callbacks?

Totally depends on the market if you want to get into a what's the percentage of call backs that will lead to offers guessing game. NALP has stats on this based on the market, I think.

I'm really interested in this. Source?

bamasplitter wrote:http://www.nalp.org/uploads/Perspective ... uiting.pdf

Page 18 of this link.

(Thanks for finding! Couldn't remember where I saw it before on the NALP site.)