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This could be a US thing but you should avoid giving a why you reject a candidate because you are opening yourself up to litigation. All companies big enough t
by willvarfar 14y ago
This could be a US thing but you should avoid giving a why you reject a candidate because you are opening yourself up to litigation.
All companies big enough to have a policy on this have a "I'm afraid we don't have a position to offer you at this time" -kind of stock reply for this reason.
If there's any follow-up at all its purpose will be to leave the candidate with a good impression, not to give the candidate any actual information.
I've even known companies to say "I'm sorry, we don't discuss specific cases" and post a t-shirt to candidates who ask why.
- Peroni 14y agoWell we're UK based and the fear of litigation is certainly a lot smaller. Obviously there is always a concern that a candidate will have a significantly negative reaction to a rejection but I spend a lot of time with all candidates who go through our interview process and build up a lot of rapport with them so I like to hope that they don't take the feedback personally.
- polymatter 14y agoI expect you'll agree that most UK companies don't do this though. Even for small companies, most won't give any feedback.
- Peroni 14y agoUnfortunately this tends to be the case more often than not. I don't think it's out of fear of litigation, I think it's simply laziness and pointless HR process.