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0 pointswhiplash4511y ago0 comments

Did you get (or asked for) feedback from the interviews you failed? Hiring managers / recruiters are sometimes quite transparent on this front.

Ask them if it is possible to re-apply in a few months.

Show your resume to friends and colleagues you trust and ask for honest feedback.

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yosito1y ago

Personally, I've just been getting generic rejection responses from no-reply email addresses. There's no way to get feedback. My guess is that they're just sending out mass rejections for anyone except a few candidates they've selected to interview, and the other 1000 applications just get automatically tossed.

throwaway1737381y ago

I was just hiring for an associate role recently and we got more than 800 applicants within a day, and our recruiter had a short list within a few days. If we gave everyone individualized feedback we wouldn’t do anything else for months. You might need to pay someone to look at the roles you’re applying for and the resumes you’re sending in for the kind of feedback you’re expecting.

yosito1y ago

I'm not the OP, but I've paid many people for feedback, and I actually have a very strong resume when a human being looks at it. I suspect that I'm being filtered out automatically because I don't meet the parameters of some automated system, probably on some relatively arbitrary metric set by the recruiter or hiring manager to filter the thousands of applications they receive.

nextn1y ago

If you required applicants to pay a sufficiently high cost to apply you wouldn't get 800 applicants within a day.

I want to see a site or ATS that makes it non-free to send an application and non-free to ghost an applicant.

hansvm1y ago

Did more than a few ask for feedback?

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0 pointswhiplash4511y ago0 comments

Did you get (or asked for) feedback from the interviews you failed? Hiring managers / recruiters are sometimes quite transparent on this front.

Ask them if it is possible to re-apply in a few months.

Show your resume to friends and colleagues you trust and ask for honest feedback.

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yosito1y ago

throwaway1737381y ago

yosito1y ago

nextn1y ago

If you required applicants to pay a sufficiently high cost to apply you wouldn't get 800 applicants within a day.

I want to see a site or ATS that makes it non-free to send an application and non-free to ghost an applicant.

hansvm1y ago

Did more than a few ask for feedback?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse