Applications where you don't hear anything?

bevanuk

2sides2everystory wrote: »

It is time to make soliciting for written job applications for sifting unlawful. As usual, those in charge of such processes in the UK have learned to take all the shortcuts necessary to expend the least effort and cost on it with no thought of morality or dignity for applicants or the well-being of their workforces generally.

First no new job to anyone over 16 should pay less than £10 per hour and no less than £15 per hour if over 21. I am not joking.

Then anyone with a job to fill should either be required to fill it internally or publish a set time and location and have made all necessary arrangements to respectfully invite the first twenty in the queue who can prove a home address within a 5 mile radius to immediate interview doing the whole subjective thing properly face to face in day.

If two thousand turn up then maybe someone will have to start thinking very carefully for a change about what a proper living wage is and learn how to treat fellow humans with respect or risk having premises torn down.

Yes this would be a new way.

The old way is disgraceful. The HR and recruitment industry in the UK is a national embarassment. If you are part of it you should be ashamed.

That is single daftest thing I have ever read.

On topic though. I wouldn't expect to hear something if I had e-mailed a CV or just applied online. With a minumum of 200 applications for each e-mail it's very time consuming, you can't 'mass reply' in Outlook without copying and pasting every e-mail address. The best you could have would be a generic "Thanks for your application, if sucessful we will be in touch within xx days"

Interviews you should always get feedback on, if after a couple of weeks, pester them. Should be ashamed.

LadyMissA

2sides2everystory wrote: »

You live in Essex and you are questioning my logic ? - actually I do too so I guess it's fair enough

Seriously, Essex has a good airport which you could probably get too as fast as you get to work. You've missed today's cheap Ryanair flight but you could be here before 10 tomorrow morning if you head to Stansted instead of the City! Time enough for half a days work at £15 per hour - more at the weekend - because that's something else this (not UK) employment market offers - dignified reward for unsocial hours.

Sorry? I live no where near Standsted......it over 30 miles away. Ealing is nearer!!!

To get there I have to go from where I am to Liverpool Street staion taking 30 mins then get a train out to Stansted taking another 50 mins (not including walking time to the station from here) i think so NO nowhere near as quick as it was to get to my last job where it took me 30 mins from here to London Bridge.

Where is HERE you talk of? I was on £14 an hour at my last job actually so not sure £15 is really worth a plane ride! where would I live?

dawyldthing

by the time you take into consideration the national insurance contributions employers have to pay and the additional insurance i'm sure it doesn't cost much less than 10 quid an hour to employ someone

sammyroser

scooby088 wrote: »

I would use the email address you have and add subject job interview or something like that, just be polite and to the point and ask for any possible feedback. I have just had to do just that from an interview i had last week.

I did this today. Was really unsure what to write so I stated the facts and asked for an update on the timescale. Giving them the benefit of the doubt they are busy and not just the couldn't be bothered to contact me

LadyMissA

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Depends what you do. If you are on way more than twice the minimum wage in UK then maybe you would be here too!

I guessed you were somewhere near Dagenham and that still fits, LMA. If you are going through Stratford anyway to Ealing then nip off one of these days and grab the 24 hour bus service from Stratford to Stansted (takes 40-45 mins). I wasn't suggesting you commute daily to Europe but just trying to open peoples' eyes to the fact that employment markets as close as Inverness is to most of us can be lots different to the one pervading in the UK - well at the moment anyway - don't all rush at once and BTW, they've always had proper, much respected trades unions, hiring and firing is quite easy and so is finding another job, and whilst you haven't, the welfare system is decent i.e. not like trying to get past bouncers into a grotty nightclub with a hole in your fishnets or one in your face.

Doesn't cost much less than 10 quid an hour for anything save for breathing fresh air. Your point being ... ?

Did I say I was travelling to Ealing? When I used to travel to Ealing the jubilee to Stratford never exsisted and why would I go that way anyway when you get a district to mile end then the central line.

Why go to Europe when they are all coming here for work?

Where would I live? I pay £250 a mth to live with family. Where would I out all my stuff? Can i get a English speaking job? I doubt it!

I think you are probably winding us all up so wont bother to reply againg

bye now

MoneySavingUser

sammyroser wrote: »

What I do find very upsetting is companies who do not contact you after an interview

Or the ones who do contact you and then write

"If you'd like feedback, let us know" and then you let them know and they say they will send some but never do....

Amanita_2

MoneySavingUser wrote: »

at least 95% of people don't bother replying - it is just rude imo

Is it not equally rude to waste a recruiters time?

I ran ads recently for a new staff member. Very specific skill set and experience requested and familiarity with a certain software program ( not Word!) given as absolutely essential.

I had over 300 responses of which only 3 actually met the specifications. I interviewed all 3 of which two were appointable.

Those who had just applied "anyway" did get a rejection email as I was brought up to be polite but they hadn't a hope of the job and had wasted my time, my secretary's time and their own.

MoneySavingUser

Amanita wrote: »

Is it not equally rude to waste a recruiters time?

I ran ads recently for a new staff member. Very specific skill set and experience requested and familiarity with a certain software program ( not Word!) given as absolutely essential.

I had over 300 responses of which only 3 actually met the specifications. I interviewed all 3 of which two were appointable.

Those who had just applied "anyway" did get a rejection email as I was brought up to be polite but they hadn't a hope of the job and had wasted my time, my secretary's time and their own.

Yes there are some people who apply who aren't suitable at all but there are others who do meet the requirements