#JobApplication #Feedback #JobSearch
Hey there! 👋 Have you ever wondered why companies never seem to give any feedback on job applications, even when you put your heart and soul into them? I’ve been there, and let me tell you, it can be frustrating! 🤯
I’ve been applying to a bunch of security/pentesting jobs recently, and despite my best efforts, I haven’t received any interview offers. And to add insult to injury, the rejection emails I do get never provide any insight into why I wasn’t chosen for the position. 🤷♂️
So, I’m curious – is this just how things are done, or are my applications not even making it to a real person because they’re being auto-rejected? Anybody else experiencing this? Any tips or insights to share?
I think one possible solution could be for companies to provide at least some generic feedback that could help applicants improve for future opportunities. It would make the whole process a lot more transparent and beneficial for everyone involved. 🤔💡
Thanks for your input! Let’s crack the code on job application feedback together! 🚀
The main reason is time..
We have around 100 applications for every IT Technician vacancy – We try to interview ~10. There’s literally no way we’d be able to get back to 90
To be honest even if it was 20 applications I’d struggle to find the time to give unique feedback to 10 people.
And our system doesn’t allow it anyway, we just click the reject button and that’s the end of it
That’s pretty normal. Many job postings will get hundreds of applicants. It would add hours to the process if they spent even a minute or two writing feedback on each rejected applicant. Some people wouldn’t really take the feedback and there would be some cases where it would be difficult to give any productive feedback. Some problems don’t have any easy fixes. Some people are grossly underqualified or they do meet the minimum qualifications in the posting but there were many other candidates that had significantly more years of relevant experience.
I thought the reason that you never get feedback was liability. There are illegal reasons to not consider someone for a job. If you just don’t give any feedback, you have plausible deniability about what your reason was for rejecting the candidate. The moment you say something is the moment you start opening yourself up to potential lawsuits.
I think the important message is that you VERY rarely get rejected for anything you did or didn’t do – 95% of the time it’s just that they liked another candidate better.
Even when applying – your resume is perfect, your qualifications meet everything they’re asking for… but they already have 5 other perfectly qualified candidates they’re talking to, so they haven’t even looked at your resume.
>It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
– Jean Luc Picard.
I feel like getting hired is part of the feedback lol