The last two weeks have been a bit of a job search whirlwind. Joel interviewed at Cleveland Clinic. He walked away pretty sure he's not getting a second interview, but he doesn't officially hear back for another couple of weeks. The program director was hard to read, but some of the things he said made it sound like there are other candidates in the front running.
Joel had a phone interview with Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), Columbia (Missouri), and South Bend (Indiana- think Notre Dame). All of the interviews were positive experiences. Columbia and South Bend are extremely small programs, so they're very different than what Joel's used to at a large hospital. We're still waiting to hear back from those two to fix an interview date. Oklahoma City got back to him this week, and they are flying him out for an interview the beginning of March.
The most random occurrence occurred this week with Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joel originally applied to their program back in August, followed up, and never heard anything from them. They posted a job a couple months later, so Joel reapplied, and they never responded back except to tell him to officially apply on their website. When Joel followed up later, he got a terse response saying they were already interviewing. We completely took them off the list and then two days ago Joel gets an email from them asking him to fly to Albuquerque for an interview. They even skipped the phone interview, and now he's scheduled to fly out there the end of this month. The whole thing is so bizarre, but hey, it's an interview, so I'm not complaining.
Oklahoma City is expanding and hiring 3 more physicians, and Albuquerque is hiring 2 physicians, so that raises the likelihood of Joel getting offered a job. We'll see how it goes. We're excited he's finally getting interviews. The locations are really random, but I suppose that's the way it works.
