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Rejection email? You were lucky to get a rejection! Or an email. We used have to lick the bosses boots clean, applying for a job paying penny a year, an' if

Rejection email? You were lucky to get a rejection! Or an email. We used have to lick the bosses boots clean, applying for a job paying penny a year, an' if we were lucky we might get a thrashing to within an inch of our lives, and a rejection screamed in our ear. Luxury.... . Yes sure, I'm in the same boat, but probably with worse prospects (took a 'career break' to work on side projects, etc), and it feels like I'm boxing in a cloud - 90%+ of applications are just ignored, not even a rejection.

EddieJLSH 3y ago
A rejection screamed in your ear? Luxury! When I was a junior developer we used to stand in job line 25 hours a day for tuppence and if they didn't hire us we'd be shot.
rewmie 3y ago
> - 90%+ of applications are just ignored, not even a rejection. I recall being at that position. I firmly believe those 90% of applications are actually fake job ads to trawl for personal data. The most suspicious cases come from recruiters who post the most generic job ad over and over and over again.
- mattigames 3y ago
  Yep, I also noticed those fake positions usually promise a very high wage, higher than similar positions.
JasserInicide 3y ago
You were lucky to get a rejection! You could say that again. In the early 2010s, I always got rejection emails. 10 years later with milliennials now in hiring manager spots, ghosting is now the norm.
arp242 3y ago
33 applications since 1st of June: - 2 rejected after interview. - 2 ghosted after interview. - 3 declined on my part after interview for various reasons (1 paid essentially below minimum wage, and 2 required relocating to a different country which is fine by me for the right job, but I didn't really have a good feeling about either). - 8 rejected by email. - 18 no reply (but some might still reply, since it can take a few weeks). So that's about a 50% reply rate, give or take (assuming I'll get a reply from a few of the application from the last few days).
- macintosh-hd 3y ago
  I would kill for even a 10% reply rate.

EddieJLSH 3y ago

A rejection screamed in your ear? Luxury! When I was a junior developer we used to stand in job line 25 hours a day for tuppence and if they didn't hire us we'd be shot.

rewmie 3y ago

> - 90%+ of applications are just ignored, not even a rejection. I recall being at that position. I firmly believe those 90% of applications are actually fake job ads to trawl for personal data. The most suspicious cases come from recruiters who post the most generic job ad over and over and over again.

mattigames 3y ago
Yep, I also noticed those fake positions usually promise a very high wage, higher than similar positions.

JasserInicide 3y ago

You were lucky to get a rejection! You could say that again. In the early 2010s, I always got rejection emails. 10 years later with milliennials now in hiring manager spots, ghosting is now the norm.

arp242 3y ago

33 applications since 1st of June: - 2 rejected after interview. - 2 ghosted after interview. - 3 declined on my part after interview for various reasons (1 paid essentially below minimum wage, and 2 required relocating to a different country which is fine by me for the right job, but I didn't really have a good feeling about either). - 8 rejected by email. - 18 no reply (but some might still reply, since it can take a few weeks). So that's about a 50% reply rate, give or take (assuming I'll get a reply from a few of the application from the last few days).

macintosh-hd 3y ago
I would kill for even a 10% reply rate.