Screening

I had a recruiter phone screen for an early-career Financial Analyst role. The call was conversational and covered my background (finance + econ double major, graduated April 2025), internships/co-ops in audit/SOX and regulatory/compliance roles, Excel comfort, GAAP familiarity, and ability to handle deadline-driven work. The recruiter explained the team structure, growth path, compensation range, and said she’d strongly recommend me for an interview. She also walked me through next steps, explaining that if the hiring team wanted to move forward, she’d send a Workday link purely for compliance before scheduling interviews. She also told me she sees my audit experience and has a great audit team as well. Probably the best HR screening I have had. It’s now been 10 days since the call. I waited a full week and sent a polite follow-up email, but haven’t received a response. I know recruiting can be slow, but I’m trying to sanity-check whether this sounds like normal delays/ghosting, or if this is typically a soft rejection after a positive screen. Would appreciate insight from anyone on the hiring or recruiting side.