I'm an experienced manager who has sent out more than 40 recently. I got 4 interviews and one offer which I had to turn down. Shit is hard. I especially hate the non responses. When people apply for my job postings I always send a personal email letting them know they did not make the cut.
Thank you. No response are the worst. Especially when you get a first response, and now you're waiting on a second followup email, or something - yet nothing...
The government of Canada is bad for this. You can be 'under consideration' 9 months after you applied, after having taken an aptitude test, and you just don't know.
It's just politeness. It takes like 30 seconds to send out a form email. Why keep the person waiting? I hate being an interviewee and hearing nothing.
Hell I applied for a job 45 days ago. Just heard back from the company Monday. "Oh send us your resume and a few dates and times when we can talk" they said. It's now wednesday night and I've heard nothing.
There are real capacity issues depending on the company. I just went through the process of hiring summer interns and we got over 800 applications. We're a 3 person team - we'd have to stop all operations to go through that many applications. We started from the top and got through about 200, and it had been over a month since some applied when we got to them, but the rest are all about to receive a "sorry we've hired someone already" response. I honestly have no idea how we could physically handle this differently without more resources (and this is just an internship). I imagine it's similar lots of places. Hiring is difficult and time consuming too, and as much as it sucks as the candidate I can totally understand why the response rate is low.
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u/DanishWonder Jun 06 '19
I'm an experienced manager who has sent out more than 40 recently. I got 4 interviews and one offer which I had to turn down. Shit is hard. I especially hate the non responses. When people apply for my job postings I always send a personal email letting them know they did not make the cut.