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BabyBird · Joined: 27 May 2015 Posts: 8

Do most people working in Saudi experience this or is this isolated behavior?

After an interview.....no correspondence for weeks sometimes?

After receiving an offer, visa/paperwork process is incredibly slow?

I'm also wondering if ramadan being days away is contributing to the foot dragging.

I had to reschedule an interview once and I didn't hear back for a week! I was starting to freak out but now I'm wondering if this is just to be expected with some universities.

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

"Signed offer, silence"
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=110984

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

This is not isolated behaviour, but a very common situation. And this is not really anyone's subjective behaviour, but visa processing is a slow process objectively, especially in the high season, when HR hire many a time hundreds of new faculty from many countries.
My HR officer whom I approach when I lose my cool, admonishes politely but firmly patience, as the process ''is incredibly slow''. My job offer has a code number 400sth for the year 2015, and was issued back in April, and the uni is still hiring new faculty, so imagine the amount of paper work, multiplied by hundreds of applications, the HR are now coping with.

I know that many people simply lose their temper and call it a day with Saudi and grab something else somewhere else, as they are unable to stand insecurity of endlessly waiting and waiting [ like the famous ''Casablanca'' characters stuck in the desert.... ]
balqis

pooroldedgar · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 181

I came to Saudi Arabia for the waters.

buravirgil · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:34 am Post subject:

It is full of vultures. Vultures everywhere, everywhere.

Sheik Yerbuti · Joined: 02 Dec 2012 Posts: 105 Location: the promised land

You're a fat hypocrite!

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

buravirgil

Pikgitina · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 420 Location: KSA

From day of interview to day of departure: 11 months. Yes, I waited 11 months. Crying or Very sad

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

forumchi · Joined: 05 Nov 2014 Posts: 15

From day of the interview to the day of departure less than a month. But before that I waited for EdEx crooks 6 month with no result. They haven't refunded my deposit yet but Iam not holding my breath.

buravirgil · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:54 am Post subject:

Carrying charges, my boy. Carrying charges.