Job Question - found one, but prefer another. What do you say?

[NewJeffCT]

My wife's old company announced a while back that they were going to move their offices. At the time, they did not have a firm destination, but as she was already driving almost an hour each way, she decided to look for a new job closer to home.

About 6 months ago, she had an interview with a large, well known corporation that would have cut her commute in half. She had liked the position itself, too. The interview went very well, but they ended up finding a good internal candidate for the job. The hiring manager said that she was overqualified, but they wanted her to stay in touch them to see if anything could be worked out in the future. Overqualified sounds pretty good since it was a manager-level job. A few months back, they even asked her about sending her resume on to their Boston office. (We're in the Hartford, CT area)

However, nothing has come up in the ensuing 6 months at this bigger corporation. With my wife not wanting to take a chance of her old company moving out of state, she accepted a job at a smaller local company that cut her commute down a good 10 minutes each way and also gave her a pretty good raise.

She still prefers the larger corporation and would jump at the chance to work there. But, how should she inform this larger company of her changed circumstances but also that she is still very interested in the larger corporation?

[HughMoran]

1. Why does she have to inform them of changed circumstances?

Can she just continue to contact them periodically with expressed interest?

[NewJeffCT]

3. background checks

if they ran a background check on her, they'd find it out.

[LisaL]

2. To me, it sounds like the large company is just dangling her along.

If they wanted to hire her, they would have. Anyhow, she should probably concentrate on her new job and not worry about it. I suppose she could always send the large company her new CV.

[NewJeffCT]

4. why string her along, though?

why not just say, "oh we found a person that was a better fit/more qualified than you"?

[LisaL]

5. WTF knows? But it's being six months, and since she just started

a new job, she should probably just concentrate on that. It doesn't look good when someone changes jobs after being at a job for a very short time anyway.

[Nikia]

6. She could just call the contact person

She could say that she has been working at this new job, but that she is still interested in them. If her salary requirements have changed, she could state that too.
Unfortunately, overqualified could mean that she is too expensive for the company. They may have planned to offer her a job when her options were more limited and she was willing to work for less.

[NewJeffCT]

7. it's possible, but

when she was originally in there & told them her salary, they said it wasn't a problem... and, since I was in to this company to interview in a different division earlier this year, I know that a manager level job there is going to be well above what she was making at her old job or her current job. I had interviewed for a "team leader" position at this company, which is a step below manager, and that was still above what she is making now at her new job...