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We are a staffing firm located in a geographic area suffering from 7% unemployment. Our recruiters are unable to respond to the hundreds of resumes we receive weekly and our standard reply is "the rec
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/12/2008 3:34 AM EDT
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What do you do if they are not qualified? Do you send anything to them to let them know that you are not considering them for the opening? It is well and good to acknowledge the receipt of the resume, tell them that you are reviewing it and will call if you have something, but you also need to close that loop, too.
Send an e-mail letting them know that you are "pursuing other candidates..." This should cut down on another large chunk of the calls. You will still get the people that think they can talk their way in, but those are a far smaller number. |
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/16/2008 6:02 AM EDT
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I agree with mailing out job postings on a monthly basis to people who have sent resumes. I am now employed but forward those posts to friends who are currently unemployed. I'm helping my friends and the recruiting company, too. |
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/16/2008 8:27 AM EDT
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I would like to offer a viewpoint in this discussion from the other side of the fence. I was a jobseeker for quite awhile until recently when I decided to open my own business.
Until you have been on this side of the fence, you cannot appreciate what our frustration is. By far, the most frustrating aspect of a job search today is the lack of communication and feedback. An e-mail indicating you received our resume/application is great. It tells us that the time we spent crafting the resume to the job application was not for nothing. You actually received it. Whats totally lacking after this point is any further response. A simple e-mail in a timely fashion indicating where our resume is in the process would be very welcome. Anyone in the job market understands rejection. What is unacceptable is not getting any further response. Let the job seeker know where they stand as soon as possible so they can then pursue other opportunities. This is not only a common courtesy, but will show the professionalism of your firm. |
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/16/2008 9:21 AM EDT
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I am a one-person HR department. While it would be very nice to have the resources (read "time") to prepare a careers newsletter and maintain a database of everyone whose ever applied, to send it out to, it's just not going to happen.
I have an auto response acknowledging receipt of email resumes that thanks applicants, tells them their resume will be reviewed against current openings and kept on file for any future opportunities but PLEASE Don't phone the company. All my ads say "PLEASE Don't phone the company". Nevertheless, people continue to call. I understand their desperation to find work, and I empathize with that. But I just have to wonder why call me when I have specifically asked them not to? Why should I be eager to hire someone who either doesn't read or can't take direction? A far more positive thing for them to do would be to send me a follow up email. That way, I'll know they are still in the market and will be impressed that they have respected my request not to phone. |
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/17/2008 3:16 AM EDT
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What is unacceptable is not getting any further response. Let the job seeker know where they stand as soon as possible so they can then pursue other opportunities.
I can't believe that anyone I would want to hire would stop pursuing other job opportunities until they had an offer firmly in their hand. It is my opinion that a person should continue searching for a job until they have one and not put it on hold pending contact from one company... |
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Frustrated Job Seekers
posted at 9/18/2008 12:29 PM EDT
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First: 5/16/2008 Last: 10/7/2008 |
I dealt with this in the past. I just stop posting the company's number in our job ads and allowed the candidates to contact us only by fax or email. I then setup an automatic response to every email I received saying "if we are interested, we'll contact you". Not exactly in those words, but you get the picture. |
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