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Because my experience says that when you do the above, a good percentage of the candidates will disagree and debate with you about your assessment of them. Then
by badclient 13y ago
Because my experience says that when you do the above, a good percentage of the candidates will disagree and debate with you about your assessment of them. Then when you just ignore them, you just look like a douche, not to mention there are candidates who will never give up and go to any lengths to express their disagreement with you. If you were only hiring one position for the year, you could may be do this. But when you are constantly hiring, this does not scale and can easily bog down down recruitment.
I also feel that I am not in a position to give advice or feedback to someone I've barely known. Just because I didn't hire the guy does not mean that I was correct in not hiring him. At some level, we'll never know. So it's pretty hard to even have feedback that I can be 100% confident about.
- wwweston 13y agoSo here's a question -- if you send out a standard rejection notice, and someone came back to you and said: "Thanks for letting me know; sorry to hear we won't be working together at this time. "If you have any suggestions to give for additions to my skills and portfolio that might make for a more competitive application at some point in the future, I'd love to hear them!" Would you take the time to give any hints then? I occasionally send a note to this effect when I miss out on a job that I wanted enough I'd love to be able to reapply later for a similar position. But I've received a reply precisely once.
- coffeemug 13y agoI always send constructive feedback if someone sends me a followup email like that. We're a small company though, getting a useful reply out of a large organization can be much harder unless you manage to get an e-mail of one of your interviewers.