Applied online, and passed along my resume to a friend of a friend in the department that got it to the Principal Investigator. Received an email that night from him and we set up a phone call for 2 weeks later. The phone call was courteous, no more than 20 minutes, and mostly revolved around us each describing our research. At the end he offered an onsite interview, which I later scheduled with his secretary to be 5 weeks after the phone call. The onsite is a full day of meetings, starting from 8:15am and ending around 4pm. During it I met with 4 Senior Scientists, 2 Scientists, 2 Postdocs, and 1 person from HR that is in charge of all Postdocs. All of the researchers studied fields similar fields to my own except for one Senior Scientist who is on some Postdoc advisory committee which essentially works to make sure the Postdoc program is effective, efficient, and beneficial for all involved. From 10-11:15am I presented my Doctoral Research to a room of about 25 people, consisting mostly of Scientists and Postdocs in the department and related departments. At the end of the day, the Principal Investigator and I arranged a phone call for the following week. In this phone call he said they were still interviewing candidates and that he would get back to me within a month. After a month, I followed up and he mentioned that he was still gathering feedback and that one more candidate had been added last minute. He said to sit tight another month. A month after, two months out from my onsite, the Principal Investigator sent a kind email saying they went with another candidate.
