Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by xenihn on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:40AM
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>We were recruiting mostly from a particular pool of uni grads, and everyone was communicating via the same particular "forum". (Late 90s/early 00s.)
Any chance it was Something Awful?
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by tpmx on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:39AM
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No, it was a regional forum.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by rconti on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:27PM
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I don't see what's hard about the typical "unfortunately, we cannot hire everyone who expresses interest in this position..." boilerplate?
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by tpmx on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:02PM
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In this case, the failed candidate started detailing things we had done "wrong" in a very detailed and also entirely incorrect way.
(Again: our problem was that we were mostly recruiting from a small, geographically localized online forum.)
People in general are naturally curious about details of what's supposed to be a block box procedure. So they'll be drawn like a moth to flame like to something like this, even if the moth is a crazy person.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by lostapathy on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:13PM
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Do you really think the failed candidate wouldn't also have lashed out at your company had you just ghosted him after the interview and not told him he was rejected? There's a good chance he/she would have been even angrier by the time they decided they were out of the running.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by HALtheWise on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:14PM
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I think they would be reluctant to publicly lash out if they think they're still some possibility they're in the running. After that time, hopefully it has been long enough that their emotions have died to down.
I've never given any detailed feedback, but I have made sure that they at least get a "sorry, we can't offer you a job" form letter quickly.
Noone has ever complained, except:
At one job, we did run into a pretty annoying situation. We were recruiting mostly from a particular pool of uni grads, and everyone was communicating via the same particular "forum". (Late 90s/early 00s.)
We interviewed a particular person in depth. He wasn't nervous. He was just not able/smart enough. So, we didn't hire him. We were very polite and friendly through this entire process. Gave him plenty of graceful exits from the problems we posed to him.
We sent him the usual polite email how he unfortunately bla bla.
Later that day, he started a major propaganda campaign against us, in the local forum.
We felt trapped - how could we say (semi-publicly) that we just rejected him because he was well.. not that intelligent? We ended up just ignoring (ghosting) him.
A few smart people there who could have joined us probably took this clown seriously though. :(