I'm now happily employed, but I went through a layoff that took three months before I finally found my current job.
During that time, I sent out 91 job applications. Of those 91, eleven of them sent me an automated response saying they'd received my application, and nothing after that. 22 of them didn't even send that automated response. I didn't keep track of those that I got an initial contact from, but then got ghosted, but there were a few of those as well.
Do better. Have some respect for the people who are spending time applying to the jobs that you posted. I know hiring managers and recruiters are hardworking and have a lot of applications to go through. But, you could at least have the respect to have a form rejection letter to send out when you drop a resume in the rejection stack.
@danjones000 I would also assume most of those were fake job postings for non-existent positions.
@danjones000 @Theorem_Poem Most résumés never get to the hiring manager. Usually, most of them are filtered out in the online portal based on requirements specified by the hiring company. The remainder often go to HR, which does a second winnowing step, and only then do the small set of remaining résumés get forwarded to the hiring manager for review.
And that's totally understandable. But, even if an automated system has filtered out the resume before reaching the hiring team, that same automated system should be set up to send out an email letting the applicant know that they aren't being considered. I got plenty of those automated emails too. Getting the automated rejection email is still better than getting no contact at all.
@danjones000 @bhawthorne absolutely. Even a two line email saying, "sorry, you did not meet the required criteria" would be better than radio silence.
@danjones000 I had a *very* similar experience this year.