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I personally would respond to an email. Or, rather, ask the recruiter to send an email to the person I rejected to even meet. The common answer to this questio

I personally would respond to an email. Or, rather, ask the recruiter to send an email to the person I rejected to even meet. The common answer to this question is, it would take way too long to answer these thousands of candidates that are applying to your position. Obviously, that's nonsense unless you're Google or Facebook. At huge companies, I suspect CVs just get lost in the system somewhere when they don't have the correct keywords for automated parsing. In that case, you'll hear no response because no human has seen the CV. At smaller companies, I honestly don't think that a response of "we decided not to go further with the CV, but thank you for applying, and please, feel free to apply to any other positions for different consideration" would be too much to ask.

user5994461 6y ago
Small companies can get thousands of applications, no need to be Google. There was a time when you could see how many people applied to a listing on monster and linkedin, the numbers were pure madness. As a manager, you probably only see applicants that were filtered by HR and applied for your team or department specifically, while HR has to view all the applicants across the entire company, that's a whole order of magnitude more.
- imglorp 6y ago
  Which is fine, but here's what I think should happen: You apply to Position P. Recruiter hires someone for P and closes the req. At that point, the bot should send everyone in the wait bucket for P a mail saying "thanks P has been filled, feel free to apply to similar roles R and S". It would take zero extra recruiter time.
  - HelloNurse 6y ago
    Recruiters and employers who disappear are burning bridges. Next time they have a position to fill, are you going to apply or to dismiss them as a waste of effort?
heavyset_go 6y ago
> The common answer to this question is, it would take way too long to answer these thousands of candidates that are applying to your position This can be automated, and several companies already do this.

user5994461 6y ago

Small companies can get thousands of applications, no need to be Google. There was a time when you could see how many people applied to a listing on monster and linkedin, the numbers were pure madness. As a manager, you probably only see applicants that were filtered by HR and applied for your team or department specifically, while HR has to view all the applicants across the entire company, that's a whole order of magnitude more.

imglorp 6y ago
Which is fine, but here's what I think should happen: You apply to Position P. Recruiter hires someone for P and closes the req. At that point, the bot should send everyone in the wait bucket for P a mail saying "thanks P has been filled, feel free to apply to similar roles R and S". It would take zero extra recruiter time.
- HelloNurse 6y ago
  Recruiters and employers who disappear are burning bridges. Next time they have a position to fill, are you going to apply or to dismiss them as a waste of effort?

heavyset_go 6y ago

> The common answer to this question is, it would take way too long to answer these thousands of candidates that are applying to your position This can be automated, and several companies already do this.