Wondering if anyone can shed light on the hiring process for an agency under a holding company. I was told verbally that an agency was going to put in a hiring request with their holding company, but that an offer wasn’t guaranteed, although this particular person had never seen the holding company deny a hiring request. My timeline for whether or not to expect an official offer was just pushed back a few weeks and I’m wondering if I should be worried.

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At holding companies there are various layers of approvals.

So anything verbal is not the “truth” unless it’s in writing.

What happened to you was exactly what you said, it’s a request and it’s not a guarantee.

They put in a request to open up a role/opening in order to possibly hire you/give you an offer.

They cannot give you an offer without an official opening.

An official opening has to be requested based on a business need of which that person has to write in the request.

The need can be that the scope calls for the opening, someone quit or got fired, the scope increased or the amount of work materially increased, like an increase in media budget that calls for incremental opening/people to work on the account.

Then the request has to be first approved by leadership then by finance.

These things takes weeks if not a couple of months.

I would follow up within a month if you have not heard anything.

Nothing is guaranteed, a verbal confirmation means nothing in the holding world especially with hiring/recruitng

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Holding company corporate needs to approve, not just the hire but also the salary. And, yes, there are salary bands. It’s not necessarily a sure thing.

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