Reference checks come after the second interview. The longer your references take to respond to calls, the longer it can take for you to receive an offer. Of course, a lot depends on what your references have to say.

Understand, though, this is a time Borders needs to get staff on board. They will push the process for good candidates.

Good luck.

I think it makes sense to do it the way your store is, but no one in store management asks my opinion, so......

Interviewing with two managers at a time appears to be speeding up the hiring process since they generally count that as both interviews. I would have preferred that. I had my second interview three hours after the first. I had barely gotten home when I got a call to come back to the store. Very annoying especially considering that the second interview lasted three minutes and was conducted by a manager (no longer with us) who seemed very distracted. I figured I failed the second interview when it ended after three minutes. It was more than a week before I got an offer, but they said they had trouble getting hold of a couple of references.

Different stores....different procedures.