Worst rejection letters

scooby088

Well i was just about to start a job through an agency on the monday and the friday before got a call from the agency bloke and was told vacancy was filled internally.

Starlet

CCFC_80 wrote: »

Yes but a lot of the time an employer says this, yet when they get a similar vacancy a few weeks later they will just go ahead and invite 100's of candidates to apply again.

If they state that they will keep your cv on file until another vacancy comes up then they should mean it.

Oh I absolutely hate it when this happens! The most annoying thing ever. Grr.

timbo58

I'm in a similar position to an earlier poster: have advertised an admin job and have had over 100 applicants in less than 2 weeks.

After filling a few vacancies recently I now,
reply with a standard polite acknowledgement of their application via email and state clearly on there the final date and apologise that if they haven't heard from me directly by then they have been unsuccesful on this occasion but to please apply again should a suitable vacancy be offered at a later date.

I do stress that I don't keep CVs on file, as I hated that false promise when I was job hunting (for the most part: some companies do it: small companies don't have the resources I feel).

I then call people to interview and follow up on a notified final date with an email or telephone call to successful and non succesful interviewees, I don't think I can do anything more than that.

I won't go into why Mrs X didnt get an interview or Mr Y didnt get the job after an interview as I don't have the time, and I delete all CVs etc when I have made a decision in any case.

evilsquid1603

the best one i had was an email saying "just to let you know i have just put a letter in the post to you. the contents are that unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion".

surely they could have just copied and pasted the letter contents into the email and had done with it in a much nicer way than have me expecting a letter that i already know is going to say no? was awful opening it when it finally arrived.

Jack2012

hahahaha yep! the letters with: "we will store your resume for future opportunities" are the worst ones... most part of the time you never hear about them anymore.

foxtrot_mike

The worst rejection letter I recieved was an email from the Graduate Jobs Site informing me that exaclty the same job I had applied for had be reopened and extended about an hour after i returned from the interview and not hearing a thing.

As it was run by my college I complained and they did something about it.

I too hate it when companies dont bother to inform you that you werent sucessful, in fact i think its quite rude when you are writing very respectful and professional letters and CVs to them and talking on the phone and in the interview you have a professional conduct yet they ignore you.

When this happens i dont rate the company very highly, particualrly when I could be or are a customer of the company, it doesnt relate well in my opinion, in fact glad not to be working for them or even being a customer to them.

Ok they havent got time to write an individual letter but for me a template email would be better than nothing.

CCFC_80

Jack2012 wrote: »

hahahaha yep! the letters with: "we will store your resume for future opportunities" are the worst ones... most part of the time you never hear about them anymore.

Yeah, Don't you just hate that ? :eek:.
Why do they lie ???:eek:

LilNikkiLoo

I work as a recruitment consultant and you have to see it from the employers point of view, I advertise vacancies on various job boards and sometimes get 100's of responses (dependant on area's within the UK) A lot of my roles are low paying call center sales positions but my clients still require candidates to have over 6 months experience (which by law I am not allowed to state on advertisements) I do however state that previous sales experience is required, but then still get applications off people who have zero sales experience.

I do agree that if you do not have experience you still deserve to have a shot, but why is the client going to pay me for a candidate without experience, that will probably leave after a few months due to 'not liking it' or 'not being able to handle doing sales'

ALL of applications that come to me that are not successful get a standard and generic response, as me replying to every single person with the reasons I am declining them for the position would basically use up too much time and I wouldnt be able to do my job of finding the right people to do the job. My generic response does state that if the candidate requires further information for why their application has been declined, they can email me requesting this and I will get feedback to them within a week.

With regards to keeping hold of CV's for future use, I do actually do this and luckily the company I work for has a massive database that we can put candidates on to with their location and skills, where the other 30 recruitment consultants here can view your CV and contact you if I cannot help you.

MissSarah1972

LilNikkiLoo wrote: »

I work as a recruitment consultant and you have to see it from the employers point of view, I advertise vacancies on various job boards and sometimes get 100's of responses (dependant on area's within the UK) A lot of my roles are low paying call center sales positions but my clients still require candidates to have over 6 months experience (which by law I am not allowed to state on advertisements) I do however state that previous sales experience is required, but then still get applications off people who have zero sales experience.

I do agree that if you do not have experience you still deserve to have a shot, but why is the client going to pay me for a candidate without experience, that will probably leave after a few months due to 'not liking it' or 'not being able to handle doing sales'

ALL of applications that come to me that are not successful get a standard and generic response, as me replying to every single person with the reasons I am declining them for the position would basically use up too much time and I wouldnt be able to do my job of finding the right people to do the job. My generic response does state that if the candidate requires further information for why their application has been declined, they can email me requesting this and I will get feedback to them within a week.

With regards to keeping hold of CV's for future use, I do actually do this and luckily the company I work for has a massive database that we can put candidates on to with their location and skills, where the other 30 recruitment consultants here can view your CV and contact you if I cannot help you.

I see loads of adverts EVERY DAY stating how much experience you need to I guess they are all braking the law. What about if you have too much experience? What about if you aren't working? I have only been out of work a short time but have heard this from some agencies that a lot of employers do not want to take on the unemployed.

LilNikkiLoo

By law you cannot state how much experience is required, nor can you say you are looking for a 'junior' person due to maybe an older person not feeling right about applying for the job.

There is no such thing as too experienced, but people will be wary about employing someone who has worked in financial sales for 10 years, been made redundant and had a year looking for work, but is now applying for a job working in retail. - they will probably be scared that you will take the job until something new comes up, which wastes time and money for the company doing so.

About the unemployed, I love working with unemployed people as you can start quicker! If you can actually have proof that you have been unemployed and have been looking for work then there is no reason someone shouldn't employ you. The only problem I have had with this is someone telling me he was unemployed for a year ..... yet he was in prison!