On Thursday 29 January 2009, Tony Harris wrote: > You'll notice that Brad said he did send an acknowledgement of receipt for > every applicant. For that matter, I believe we do too. But a quick form > email saying "Got your resume" is a lot different than what I was hearing > for feedback desired from the discussion here, where people were annoyed at > not even being able to get an interview. Well, getting a Ack-Ack of receipt is a 1st step which @least confirms that its in the in-box. You're correct about some on this thread commiserating about failing to make the short list; but that topic was more about age vs qualifications and the mentality of the HR department pre-screeners.
Also, I concur that there are way too many people who fail on grammar, spelling, an ability to write cohesively, or just plain laziness. That still does not mitigate the responsibility of the hiring company to perform basic acknowledgement (IMHO). > I agree with Brad, it's just not > feasible to send a "Sorry you didn't get the job" note to everyone who > didn't, and certainly not workable to try to indicate to people why they > didn't get an interview. Sorry, but I strongly disagree with you here. Just take the list of applicants, subtract the person who got the job and send out a bulk email. Granted, it would be a form letter, but better than nothing. And for those who did merit an actual interview, who took time out of their day to go and be interviewed at least once, I believe having a bit more detail would be highly appreciated; and go a long way to making the company look good when they need to fill another job. > In our form letter acknowledgement we give a time > range in which we're planning to interview, and then we do inform those who > got interviews but didn't get the job of that outcome. > But those who got the form letter, if they didn't hear about scheduling an > interview they > should assume they didn't get one and move on. To be honest, it's been > that way throughout my career, any time I've applied anywhere. Now that's perfectly reasonable, because you prefaced everything in a time-frame that a candidate can measure against and make logical assumptions when that time has passed. So what you do offsets your last statement about not having/ability to send a response to each and every applicant. I can live with that regardless of whether I feel qualified for the job or even if I was asked in for an interview because, as a previous poster has noted: the process is a two-way street and the dialog is as much about the company filling a position as it is about the prospect finding work. Your company is upholding it's end of the bargain by not leaving anyone hanging for their efforts. I wish most other .com did likewise Rion > Tony >
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