I recently wanted to introduce someone to our internal recruiters to a person with a long, uniqueish name. The recruiter was like: they did respond with „I’m not interested“. But the person was like: I’ve never got a mail.
Turned out the whatever tool our recruiter used spit out „[email protected]“ even though the person in question doesn’t own that email.
Interesting!
I've gotten a wide enough variety of stuff (mortgage paperwork, homeowners insurance, game service accounts) that some of it has to be organically entered, but that is a good note. Crazy that any system would be set up that way, but HR tech is a clusterfuck.
I am [email protected], but I wouldn't be surprised if something similar is happening in some instances.
It's bizarre though... who puts down an email address they don't own on a job application?!