to expect a reply re job application

[SpanglesAreYum]

Been seven years since I last did one, but just wondering if etiquette is different now, as have always had a reply either way whether I was getting interviewed. I've emailed them politely and still no reply.

I think that any company that advertises a vacancy and does not plan to respond to unsuccessful applicants should say so in the original advertisement.

squoosh I wouldn't recommend whooshing mass confidential information into the bcc to send one email!!

But it's just a 'no you haven't got the job', it's pretty reliable for that kind of stuff.

Sorry, but YABU. I recently recruited for a (mid level) admin job and got 120 applications. All applicants got an auto email reply thanking them for their application and advising them that if they heard nothing further they hadn't been short-listed.

Although around 30ish applications were good and it would have been nice (if there was time) to send them a 'thanks but no thanks email', the rest were awful and I don't understand why the applicants bothered submitting them.

YANBU, but sadly you need to get used to it.
Good luck with job hunting.

squoosh ha ha I wish! No, I put it in the Evening Standard and the whole of London applied.

thefurryone He also doesn't have the time. I simply put in the ad only sucessful candidates will be contacted. Of course we applied to those who cam to interview.

About 7 years agomy h went for a job interview. He never heard back.

And it wasn't a quick 10 minute in and out chat either - he was there for over 2 hours including 30 mins with the MD!

We probably should have chased up but he wasn't that sure about the role in the first place and this convinced him he didn't want to work there!

It is annoying I've applied for hundreds of jobs and only received a handful of replies, however I also understand that in this day and age there are very few jobs about with all the cuts being made and thus when a job does come up the employers are inundated with so many applications it would not be possible to reply to them all. I had an interview today and the guy told me that within the first 2 days alone he had already received in excess of 100 applications and they are still flooding in and I can see how replying to each one would be very time consuming and thus not viable unless they hired someone solely for the purpose of replying to applicants.

I haven't applied for many jobs lately as I've stayed in the same one for a while but when I was younger I rarely had an application acknowledged.

And, yes, it's jolly rude IMO.

Oh just advertising a post at the moment and after reading this I promise to email everyone even if it takes me all night! I shall just count my blessings that I have a job.
Please don't ask for feedback as to why you didn't get an interview though!