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What's the context I'm missing, here?

acjohnson55 8y ago
The post that she quotes is the original one, and if you click through to it, you can see that it wasn't particularly well received.
- cowsandmilk 8y ago
  What I particularly don't like from the original piece is "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." I write thank you e-mails to people who give me their business card during the interview. I'm sure as hell not hunting down your e-mail just to send you one. If you expect me to, you're not respecting my time as a candidate.
AlexTWithBeard 8y ago
The twit is a response to Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.
- arkades 8y ago
  Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.
- mcv 8y ago
  Even if they'd have to hunt down that email address themselves, according to the article she links to. A thank you email to someone you're already in an email conversation with is not at all unreasonable, but expecting people to hunt down your email address just to send you a thank you, is downright weird.
  - Radle 8y ago
    Only hiring people who send a thank you email is totally weird. "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." To be honest my time is pretty much to valuable for this kind of teenager games. I am busy solving real problems for real customers. I don't have the time to search for your Email address, I also don't need to do that, people usually hire me for point 1), I get shit done. "To be clear, a thank-you note does not ensure someone will be a successful hire. But using the thank-you email as a barrier to entry has proved beneficial, at least at my company." the author says. Blatantly ignorant towards all the genius they've lost in their broken process. "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." The author says, because changing the strategy for a handful of cases out of thousands is definitely really scientific and stuff. "As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one." as the last quote just showing the pure entitlement the author suffers... That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me happy to be in Software, people who bring trouble usually don't get promoted into responsibility...
    - Cactus2018 8y ago
      "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.
      - renholder 8y ago
        >Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes. That's entirely plausible. I mean, you're probably <insert arbitrary percentage here> more likely to not turn an offer down, even if it's below the cost-of-living for the area in question, if you're willing to go to those lengths, yeah? Their solution to the problem of having offers turned down seems to be not to investigate why but to just hire the people most willing to take them... I mean, they found a loop-hole but to quote the Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
- whitakerch 8y ago
  Eh, I see "Thank You" emails as annoying personally and think others feel the same way but apparently not haha.
jawilson2 8y ago
The real context is that it is still nearly impossible to follow conversations on Twitter.
- jeanlucas 8y ago
  Really?
- baddox 8y ago
  I’m a frequent Twitter user, although I only use a third-party client but I’m not sure what’s difficult to follow here. The linked tweet is commenting on (parodying) the original tweet, the text of which is in the small box immediately below the text of the linked tweet. There’s no thread or “conversation” happening.

The post that she quotes is the original one, and if you click through to it, you can see that it wasn't particularly well received.

cowsandmilk 8y ago
What I particularly don't like from the original piece is "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." I write thank you e-mails to people who give me their business card during the interview. I'm sure as hell not hunting down your e-mail just to send you one. If you expect me to, you're not respecting my time as a candidate.

AlexTWithBeard 8y ago

The twit is a response to Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.

arkades 8y ago
Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.
mcv 8y ago
Even if they'd have to hunt down that email address themselves, according to the article she links to. A thank you email to someone you're already in an email conversation with is not at all unreasonable, but expecting people to hunt down your email address just to send you a thank you, is downright weird.
- Radle 8y ago
  Only hiring people who send a thank you email is totally weird. "It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them." To be honest my time is pretty much to valuable for this kind of teenager games. I am busy solving real problems for real customers. I don't have the time to search for your Email address, I also don't need to do that, people usually hire me for point 1), I get shit done. "To be clear, a thank-you note does not ensure someone will be a successful hire. But using the thank-you email as a barrier to entry has proved beneficial, at least at my company." the author says. Blatantly ignorant towards all the genius they've lost in their broken process. "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." The author says, because changing the strategy for a handful of cases out of thousands is definitely really scientific and stuff. "As a hiring manager, you should always expect a thank-you email, and you should never make an offer to someone who neglected to send one." as the last quote just showing the pure entitlement the author suffers... That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me happy to be in Software, people who bring trouble usually don't get promoted into responsibility...
  - Cactus2018 8y ago
    "The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected." Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.
    - renholder 8y ago
      >Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes. That's entirely plausible. I mean, you're probably <insert arbitrary percentage here> more likely to not turn an offer down, even if it's below the cost-of-living for the area in question, if you're willing to go to those lengths, yeah? Their solution to the problem of having offers turned down seems to be not to investigate why but to just hire the people most willing to take them... I mean, they found a loop-hole but to quote the Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
whitakerch 8y ago
Eh, I see "Thank You" emails as annoying personally and think others feel the same way but apparently not haha.

jawilson2 8y ago

The real context is that it is still nearly impossible to follow conversations on Twitter.

jeanlucas 8y ago
Really?
baddox 8y ago
I’m a frequent Twitter user, although I only use a third-party client but I’m not sure what’s difficult to follow here. The linked tweet is commenting on (parodying) the original tweet, the text of which is in the small box immediately below the text of the linked tweet. There’s no thread or “conversation” happening.