{"id":180,"date":"2007-09-19T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/if-i-was-a-recruiter\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T17:55:00","slug":"if-i-was-a-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/if-i-was-a-recruiter\/","title":{"rendered":"If I was a recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every single job I've seen has had the following text at the bottom of the ad: \"We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.\"<\/p>\n<p>I am not getting any kind of notification that my resume and application has been received; on top of that, I don't get any kind of notification if I don't get considered. How much effort is it to automatically send a 'thank you, but no thank you' to people who aren't in consideration for a job? You don't have to tell them why. Isn't it more likely to make them want to apply for a job with you in future?<\/p>\n<p>I can't say I really like getting \"Your e-mail has been received and will be assigned to the next available operator\" notifications (I think they're called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bacn2.com\/\">bacn<\/a> now) when I e-mail a support address, but I'd really appreciate some feedback along the lines of \"yes, we did get your resume\".\u00a0 Else I might go mad.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well - I'm getting better results from the <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/TorCamp\">Toronto BarCamp<\/a> mailing list than the big job sites anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every single job I've seen has had the following text at the bottom of the ad: \"We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.\" I am not getting any kind of notification that my resume and application has been received; on top of that, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-jobhunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}