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[msmemory_archive]

Has it become unfashionable for employers to send "thanks but no thanks" letters to unsuccessful job applicants?

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[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Dunno about in your part of the world, but around here, if a company receives 200-300 resumes for a single job opening, it's rather expensive (timewise, if nothing else) to send out that kind of letter. Most companies don't anymore.

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

Exactly. My department has run job searches once a year for the last n years, and last year we received around 140 applications on time and this year around 100. That's $41 just in postage to send those letters.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

And that's just the postage. Add in the man-hours of labor, etc ... multiply by how many job openings an even larger company may have in any year, and ...

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Good points. If every misemployed and unemployed librarian I know had sent them a resume, plus every librarian who wanted a change, plus some of the new grads.... They probably got 100. The only reason I'm sure my email got there is that I received an out-of-office reply from my initial submission.

Only 100?

[metageek.livejournal.com]

When I was at Endeca, we estimated that we screened 1000 résumés for every person hired. There were three stages (review the résumé, phone screen, interview), and, at each stage, about 1 in 10 made it through.