Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by adamredwoods on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:24PM
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Not asymmetrical, in my opinion. Companies are holding all the cards, otherwise I wouldn't be looking for a job in the first place. I believe that someday there will be too few jobs for all the people on this planet.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by HarryHirsch on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:13PM
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someday there will be too few jobs for all the people on this planet
There are too few jobs now. Paul Krugman called it a "savings glut". There are no opportunities to invest the cash you are holding productively, consequently interest rates are low and the best thing you can do is buy back your own stock.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by 1123581321 on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:44PM
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Investors who sell to a buyback deploy the money elsewhere, including new issues and private investment, which leads to hiring.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by JMTQp8lwXL on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:39AM
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Not completely true. You're holding some cards too if they're desperately needing a position filled.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by Jagat on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:06PM
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Yeah, but it's not likely they're going to sue you regardless of what reason you give for not accepting their offer.
There's asymmetry from the other side too.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by zymhan on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:05PM
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Can people just drop "fear of being sued" as a catch-all reason for any behavior? It is incredibly expensive and time consuming to file a lawsuit. The average person doesn't go around suing other folks regularly.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by Jagat on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:26AM
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Filing a lawsuit can be quite profitable for the lawyers involved.
What's preventing someone from trying to extract $3M in settlement money from a rich company that doesn't want its reputation tarnished in a long running discrimination lawsuit?
And $3M is a lot of money that lawyers would eagerly represent someone that has an evidence of discrimination.
Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by awinder on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:14AM
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The time it would take out of your life (just because you hire lawyers doesn’t mean you’re spending no time on the lawsuit). And once you file that lawsuit it’s going to become public record that you sued a company you interviewed for, so there’s a lot of downside risk for the rest of your career. I understand the fear but I don’t think there’s realistically a lot of downside risk for employers to responsibly share some feedback. And certainly there’s no legal risk to just letting candidates know they went in a different direction.
If you ghost, they’re likely going to continue to contact over multiple channels. Because they want an answer so that they can take next steps. Same as a candidate.
If you say thanks but no thanks, they’re going to want to know why, is there anything they could have done differently, or try to convince you that you have it wrong.
There’s basic human reasons for these very common reactions, we just put a construct in front of one of those groups and tried to explain it away as being acceptable.