I’ve had 2 face-to-face interviews in the last few months that seemed to go well. I sent my Thank-You notes; even sent an email 10 days later to reiterate my interest. Didn’t hear a thing. I guess I got the clue about one job when I looked at a career website and the position was re-posted.

Follow up on a company’s part is a PR opportunity. And if you’re going to treat me this way as an applicant, then how will you treat me as an employee?

As an HR Professional I ALWAYS followed up with a candidate who interviewed. If an HR person has time to shop on line or chat on Facebook (not that they all do, but I’ve seen my share of goofing off in my 20 years and have goofed off as well), he or she has time to send a scripted email to an applicant or make a brief phone call. Giving bad news is never comfortable, but I can look at myself in the mirror every day because I know I did the right thing.

Patting myself on the back? You’re ding-dang right! If being in HR has taught me anything it’s that we are ALL expendable and I’m not too good sitting in my little HR office to at least respond to someone who is out there beating the pavement and taking their valuable time to interview with me.

Just my two cents worth…

that’s my disclaimer for the “grammar” police on these things.

I leave a message after a week and a half inquiring about the “status” of the interview, and I hear nothing.. I am assuming its passed, done and I am moving on.

Absolutely frustrating. When I am an employee, if I put “don’t hesitate to contact me” in an email, if you leave me a message, I WILL Get back to you.

Just plain rude.

HR people do more than spend the day sorting through resumes and we DO NOT make the hiring decisions. We also do not have time to search to see if we have received your resume just because you call to ask. Don’t feel bad, I tell plenty of recruiters I don’t have time for them either. If you call me, you’ll get a blanket response that we’ll call if we want to speak with you. We would tie up our entire day answering these questions.

I do believe that every person who is interviewed deserves to get a response, whether verbal or in writing. So I always close the loop with any candidate we have interviewed. But I do take offense to those who use derogatory remarks toward all HR representatives. We are individuals, we are not all to be considered rude, incompetent or useless. That’s a generalization that should not be used for people who fall into any category.

I do feel bad for those who have been unemployed for a long time; it’s a horrible situation in which to be. However, you have a lot of competition out there. Someone could always be a better fit with better experience than you or me, so that’s what can happen to your hiring situation.

Also, no one has mentioned what we have to deal with from some applicants. You call them and they become high maintenance (wanting to cut deals with you before they are even interviewed, trying to negotiate salary before they are even interviewed, and several other crazy things). I’ve had applicants want to be told every little specific thing about the job (not the basic needs or requirement) or speak with the hiring manager before they schedule the interview. Isn’t that what the interview is for, to exchange details?

Some applicants (maybe some of the people who posted on this board) don’t even realize how much more work they need to do on their resumes or that they should stop applying for positions for which they are clearly not suited.

So maybe before you start bashing all HR professionals, you should take a look on a case by case basis. As frustrating as it is, and I agree it should not be this way, you are only owed a response if you have received direct communication from the company. Other than that, you should only expect a response if the company is interested. Dealing with this can make the job search process a little easier.

Good luck to you all.

Bottom line in it all, is like it is with anything it’s a cycle viscous or not.

Good Luck to all.

I called him friday, no answer…left a message
I called him monday, no answer…left a message
I gave it a break on tuesday..heard nothing
I called him wednesday, no answer….left a message.

What bothers me is the manager TOLD me to call back if i hadnt heard anything. If you tell someone to call back, and they leave you a message, have the fucking common courtesy to return the message and say “we’ve filled the position, or we decided to go a different route”

whats even worse is the phone interview IMO sounded very promising, enough IMO to justify bringing me in for the first imperson interview, since the position is a specialized positiong that is EXACTLY what i do and what i have experience in.

I have 90 active applications and increasing 50 I’m over qualified for and 40 I am qualified for, I’ve had one interview in these last 5 months and 1 phone interview, the in person interview said they would call me and never did. The phone interview sent me a mailing saying I wasn’t qualified for an entry level job… Sigh… I wish some one would just give me a job what the hell is so hard about it I ma a hard worker and can do more than the average person.