It really depends. I've seen things go pretty quick in other industries, like my wife, who works in marketing. At most she usually has a call, a psychological test of some sort, and a long onsite. She's also had some that were about as long as mine, but on average it's relatively short.
And she never has to grind or prepare beyond making sure her portfolio is ready. They don't ask her to prove her InDesign or Powerpoint or HTML or even tech skills (one job she had to lead a tech initiative to lead the department into evaluating and then switching to new proposal management software that was HTML template driven, and then basically be tech support for a bunch of salespeople that didn't want to invest the time to learn how to use it).
I'd rather go through her process than mine, quite frankly. Although she has found it more difficult than I have to find a company willing to pay her what she's making now, as her salary has gotten pretty high for her field, and she often has to sell them more on what she can bring to the table since she's had experience with so many large accounts in the past.
Meanwhile I could move to SV and double my salary easily, so I'm nowhere near the top, just the top of the ranges for all the recruiters in my region that contact me (I could probably find something in the area that's about $50k higher, I'm guessing, but no one is advertising it, most are advertising about $30k less than I'm making right now). And yet my process always seems to be long and painful.
And she never has to grind or prepare beyond making sure her portfolio is ready. They don't ask her to prove her InDesign or Powerpoint or HTML or even tech skills (one job she had to lead a tech initiative to lead the department into evaluating and then switching to new proposal management software that was HTML template driven, and then basically be tech support for a bunch of salespeople that didn't want to invest the time to learn how to use it).
I'd rather go through her process than mine, quite frankly. Although she has found it more difficult than I have to find a company willing to pay her what she's making now, as her salary has gotten pretty high for her field, and she often has to sell them more on what she can bring to the table since she's had experience with so many large accounts in the past.
Meanwhile I could move to SV and double my salary easily, so I'm nowhere near the top, just the top of the ranges for all the recruiters in my region that contact me (I could probably find something in the area that's about $50k higher, I'm guessing, but no one is advertising it, most are advertising about $30k less than I'm making right now). And yet my process always seems to be long and painful.