Job Hunt

[jbsegal]

Yes, as I thought...another company that's decided not to hire me, and which doesn't have the decency to TELL me that.

I don't mind that they want someone with different experience, but I bloody well want them to send a piece of email saying 'Thank you for coming in'.

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This has been my experience...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

with lots of companies...they speed to offer letters/good news, but I often have to pester my recruiters to get them to "close the loop" with a candidate we are passing on.

this is most frustrating with candidates I liked that failed to make the cut for other reasons (failed the corporate CBI or other screening mechanisms)...

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's what's going on here, but it often takes me longer to tell people they didn't get the job, than it takes me to tell someone they did. This is mainly because I want to make sure everything goes well with the first-choice candidate, that they don't back out at the last minute, etc. Since I then might actually want to offer the job to one of the runner-up candidates.

I do, of course, eventually call everyone we actually interviewed and tell them they didn't get the job. (Bleah. Did that last week. Sucks.) It's just rude not to.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

It is annoying, isn't it. IMHO, it doesn't take much effort to send off a "thanks, but no thanks" email or letter - and it leaves the candidate with a _much_ better impression of the company.

I had the joy of having a hiring manager say "I'll call and let you know tomorrow, or the day after" - and never call. When I ran into them a month-or-so later, their comment was "I'm sorry, I'm a flake". I'm sorry too - my opinion of them, and their company is ... not improved.

this was always a bone of contention for me

[electriccat.livejournal.com]

Hell, one of the offenders was someone who posted to That List ("S") about jobs and folks looking to hire, and at one point the guy even contacted me personally - then NEVER bothered to follow up with me.

One company out in Wayland I had 2 interviews with, never bothered to call my recruiter back about their decision, or lack thereof. She eventually got her friendly contact inside the company to say that it turned out the President of the company had the resumes of 5 "finalists" put before him and he rejected them ALL for some reason or another (I was one of the 5 finalists).

Anyway, it's still an employer's market. As long as it stays this way, potential hires are still getting the sharp pointed stick in the eye and a very cold shoulder.

grrrrrrrrr (and I'm still keeping my eyes open for anything I see workwise)

[feoh.livejournal.com]

This practice is so utterly bogus it just stinks, period. And it's not just HR people taking their time about responding, it's when they never respond *at all* that I find to be so incredibly unprofessional.

I REALLY hate that my company has started doing this, and in fact I've basically stopped recommending people entirely because they never hear ANYTHING as to whether or not their resume even got into the right person's hands!

I spoke to a former HR friend of mine about this last week, and he said that it's all about fear of hiring malpractice law suits.

This country has gone torte crazy, and the silly walks quotient has spiraled out of control as a result.

Morons.

(This is a bone of contention for me too and I'm not even IN the job market right now!)

[randomenvy.livejournal.com]

This just sucks. PurpleLawyer gets this a lot too. We just have to <shrug /> and add this to the list of things to do properly if we are ever in this situation.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

one of the issues might be related to simple overload.

out of 9000 submitted resumes, only 10 were of interest, and of those, only 2 managed to get interviews. they simply don't have the time, manpower, or resources i'd guess, to send out a "so sorry next time rejection", even for those 8-10 people.

it goes both ways too. on a round of attempted hires we tried in a group a few years ago, we never heard back from several of our top candidates, one of them picked up a job the same day as his interview, and didn't mention that. the guy we DID hire ended up staying with us for 2 weeks, after all the final paperwork was done, and we invested time/resources to make him "one of us", he bolted, his school decided to let him go get a PHD and he left without so much as notice.

heck heck, i even got a contract once, via a recruiter! was working for 2 months, and the recruiter calls me on the cell to let me know he's got a hot interview for me... even they flake out.

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[cme]

Gah, sorry. :(

[marmota.livejournal.com]

No kidding. My recent experiences with the free workshops at the DUA career centers have me trying this time around the "correspond on everything" approach, on the theory that it demonstrates courtesy and gives more face time with the interviewer.

So, I'm sending off resumes with full cover letter, followed a day later with a "thank you for considering me" note, and replying in similar form to anything they send*, followed with a "please keep me informed on the status of this and future positions" one a week or so later.

It's frustratingly like trying to play tennis blindfolded, and not only not knowing if you'll miss a return serve, but actively wondering if there's even anyone on the other side of the net interested in hitting a ball back.

*which of course is the crux of the problem. Hard to send a "thank you for considering me" note when you're not sure they've considered you.