Not in my experience. I've always got some response/acknowledgement/PFO any time I've applied for a job.
Wrong. It has value for both the applicant and the employer. It tells the applicant that the application has been received and declined. No doubt, no wondering. It brings clarity. For the employer, it reduces the likelihood of further queries, particularly if it gives some explanation as to why it was declined.
So you conveniently ignore the feedback that doesn't suit you and take a self-selecting set of people giving negative feedback as 'the norm'. Way to get a balanced view.That doesn't mean that its the same for anyone else, or that the credit crunch has changed how people reply to applications. The number of posts from people getting no replies would tend suggest its very common even the norm anyway.
Wrong and wrong. It is indeed possible to give an explanation for unsolicited applications with a semi-automated 4-keystroke response. The explanation may well be 'we don't accept unsolicited applications. Please watch our website for future vacancies' or similar. It is difficult to imagine how anyone will look for more information in response to this.Wrong yourself. Your not going to get an explanation in automated reply, or spending 2-3 seconds per email as you suggested previously. People who aren't happy with no reply, aren't going to satisfied with an automated reply either. Getting a reply might even encourage them to look for more feedback.
Glad to see we agree on something.That said it not that useful to generalise as every application is different.
So you conveniently ignore the feedback that doesn't suit you and take a self-selecting set of people giving negative feedback as 'the norm'. Way to get a balanced view.
Wrong and wrong. It is indeed possible to give an explanation for unsolicited applications with a semi-automated 4-keystroke response. The explanation may well be 'we don't accept unsolicited applications. Please watch our website for future vacancies' or similar. It is difficult to imagine how anyone will look for more information in response to this.
Businesses don't exists as islands. They are part of our community. Today's job applicant is tomorrow's customer. Today's desperate job applicant in the recession is tomorrow's potential targeted recruit in a boom. It would be a foolish business decision to treat job applicants with contempt and not to exercise simple good manners.
Well, I'd start by not assuming that a self-selecting group of people complaining on a negatively titled thread is representative.I ignored it by quoting and commenting on it.
I took the majority 14 vs 4 (approx). How would you do it?
It's a flawed assumption to assume that anyone who has the email address has seen the website. It is extremely unlikely that anyone who sees a clear message on a website regarding unsolicited applications is going to send in an unsolicited application. So if this is still happening, I would guess that the website is poorly designed and/or the content is poorly written.Anything is possible, the issue is it worthwhile? Since its unsolicited, if they've got the email, they've already looked at the website, and seen theres no vacancies, and applied anyway. So I fail to see how its useful to tell them to go look at the website they've already looked at. Obviously they are doing that anyway.
Yet it happens. For some people no is not enough.
Indeed there are. And I guess they will continue to whinge about the credit crunch, bureacratic regulators and excessive tax instead of addressing the real problem - their own attitude.Theres an awful lot who don't even treat existing customers that well never mind people they are unlikely to ever hear from again as customer or as recruit. For example...
http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=105043
Well, I'd start by not assuming that a self-selecting group of people complaining on a negatively titled thread is representative.
It's a flawed assumption to assume that anyone who has the email address has seen the website. ...
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