so far so positive

i got a call from the headhunter this evening. once i picked up the call, a cheerful voice greeted me, and straightaway went...

hey, we managed to talk to the hiring manager and got to understand her thoughts about you. apparently, what she told us was exactly what you told us... she went, almost singing the lines aloud, sounding really uplifted. she seemed to have a rather good impression about you and appreciates your being upfront about your relatively inexperienced in the area relating to... she went on. but the hiring manager requested for some more time to allow her to interview some more candidates before she decides.

well, to me such a feedback simply translates to: "ok, thank you. you have been rejected". and that was what i told the headhunter. but her response surprised me. it went like this...

huh? what? no, no... you know, we have worked with this hiring manager for quite a while and she is known to be very to the point and has many a times rejected lots of candidates outright. so this response from her was actually better than good. in fact, this was one of the very few times she actually came back with very good feedback about candidates. 

i was kinda dumbfounded for a moment and as if to iterate the positiveness, the headhunter started asking about my notice period, whether i have leave to offset, etc. i simply told her if the company is really that keen, they can consider buying me out. haha... tell you, this headhunter seemed really positive about this outcome.

so, yeah. that was how the update went. i thanked her for the feedback and the positive note to end my week. still, i don't really think this opportunity would pull through. then again, lets just leave things as it is. 

:-)