To think employers could at the least have the common courtesy to tell you you’ve not been successful?

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I’ve lost count of the number of jobs I’ve applied (and interviewed) for where I’ve just never heard from them again.

In fact on indeed there is often an update which states how long it will likely be before you hear back, and I’ve seen one or two which state “based on our experience, you’re unlikely to ever hear from this employer again.”

TBH, if we were in the days of paper applications I could see how writing a letter to each applicant could be problematic especially if you have several of them.

But given everything is now done electronically, and there are generallly systems in place to acknowledge your application/invite to interview/confirm the interview time etc, I fail to see why there can’t also be something in place which generates a rejection email when the applicant is rejected on the system.

It would save a lot more angst when people are applying for jobs and just hoping that they will hear back about one of them, only for it to appear that their application has disappeared somewhere.

i interviewed for a job recently and have assumed I wasn’t successful. But it would at least be nice to have been told so I could ask for feedback.

(My interview was a year ago).

I follow a person on Liinkedin called Mitch Sullivan who trains others in recruitment and in particular in writing job ads - he posted this recently -

What happens if a qualified potential candidate reads a job posting, is interested (either because it's an great ad or they're just keen to move on) and is tempted to apply, but remembers all those other times they've applied for jobs where they didn't get a response? Is there a chance that some of those people will decide not to risk it? Maybe even most of them?

About 10 years ago I decided to put this at the end of all my job ads;

"Everyone will receive a response."

My thinking was that if it persuaded just one qualified person to apply who otherwise wouldn't have because of previous poor experiences, then it had to be worth doing.

As it happens I was recently contacted by a friend who works at a large IT firm - he said "we have some jobs going"

I had seen the job he had, but decided not to bother applying as I heard the square root of fuck all twice before.

@DynamoKev the best people are likely to be able to pick and choose ... so it makes sense to want to attract the fussiest applications. Who would be put off at not receiving a response.