Reply from an employer to a job vacancy

ThemeOne

Surely any HR department worth the name should have email templates set up to respond to people in this sort of scenario, so there should be no reason to dash off this sort of poorly written response to an applicant.

I know some people have suggested the reply was done deliberately, but to me this is just silly game playing and a further reason to avoid working for the company.

Malthusian

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Kind of reminds me of this email bother, that happened not so long ago so you are far from alone:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/tonbridge/news/graduate-labelled-odd-ball-and-125614/

If she'd turned up to the interview with a bag of mushrooms and offered it around she'd probably have got the job.

Obviously I would never question someone's right to take offence, especially when they've been personally insulted. I just think that when someone offers you a free run to the moral high ground you take it. Especially when the alternative is to go to the papers and give the company free publicity. (People who are in the market for industrial air conditioning units are unlikely to be too bothered by the company's lack of progressive attitude.)

mattcanary

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

If someone says "Oi, you, lend me five pounds." you are likely to say no. If somebody says "Oi, you, you dropped five pounds, here it is." you are not likely to say no. Because in the one case they are asking for a favour and in the other they are doing you one.

You don;t have to behave like a patronising git though as the HR person in the Op's post appeared to be doing.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

mattcanary wrote: »

You don;t have to behave like a patronising git though as the HR person in the Op's post appeared to be doing.

I shall remember never to warn you that a piano is about to fall on you in case you don't like my tone.

mattcanary

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I shall remember never to warn you that a piano is about to fall on you in case you don't like my tone.

It was the tone of the email reply.

Saying "you really should" is patronising and an extremely rude thing to say

Seen when has a bank for example sent out a letter to a customer saying for example, "you really should have not gone into your overdraft" or a policeman said "you really should not have left your window open" when speaking to a crime victim?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

mattcanary wrote: »

It was the tone of the email reply.

Saying "you really should" is patronising and an extremely rude thing to say

Seen when has a bank for example sent out a letter to a customer saying for example, "you really should have not gone into your overdraft" or a policeman said "you really should not have left your window open" when speaking to a crime victim?

Again, you are mistaking the nature of the relationship. It's not a bank talking to a customer, it's a customer talking to a bank.

Stylehutz

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

Again, you are mistaking the nature of the relationship. It's not a bank talking to a customer, it's a customer talking to a bank.

But the candidate could be a potential customer of employers business or may even have been at the time. Think candidate is well off out of it.

It would be quite funny if in the future, the candidate found a job at a company that was a customer of the hr persons company. That could be interesting and might want to persuade their new company to deal with someone else.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Stylehutz wrote: »

But the candidate could be a potential customer of employers business or may even have been at the time. Think candidate is well off out of it.

It would be quite funny if in the future, the candidate found a job at a company that was a customer of the hr persons company. That could be interesting and might want to persuade their new company to deal with someone else.

"You should deal with this other company. I know it will cost us twice as much, but somebody who works for them was vaguely dismissive towards me in an email some years ago."

Stylehutz

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

"You should deal with this other company. I know it will cost us twice as much, but somebody who works for them was vaguely dismissive towards me in an email some years ago."

Its not all about costs though is it?. The other scenario is that customers are offten loyal to their suppliers even when others are cheaper, Perhaps waiting for things like this to happen is a good excuse to bin them.

jbond

karcher wrote: »

Was that remark really necessary?

No, it was completely stupid!

I'm wondering what the 'please attach your CV correctly named' meant? Don't think you mentioned if you had made an error with that?

However, regardless of that, it was indeed a very inappropriate way for a potential new employer to respond, and I definitely have sympathy for the way you responded, and wouldn't mark you down for it at all.

The 'relationship' between the employee and employer doesn't exist yet, so it's very unwise to be trying something on like that, at that stage.

Let's face facts - if they didn't want you then they wouldn't have given you the opportunity to resubmit your CV.

Perhaps YOU need to face some facts? They couldn't open his CV? So, apart from his email address and name on the CV document, they wouldn't know anything about him or his experience?
Not sure what you mean by 'didn't want you', but if you meant experience wise, then that's rubbish, because they didn't know him, did they?!