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

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[johno.livejournal.com]

I actually perfer to be told that we've just hit a deal blocker during the interview.

Am I missing a expensive to aquire required skill.
Am I asking to much salary.
Grooming requirements.*



*Yes indeed, one company had a no facial hair requirement. At the time I had really back acne scars that had not yet faded which I was very selfconcious of and had a beard to hide them.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, about 20 years ago. I had several interviews one day -- I'm a phamacist -- mostly with independent pharmacies, and one with a (now defunct) local chain. Now, the indies were and are mom-'n-pop, handshake situations, and the mode was and is to dress for the interview like you'd dress for work. So I wore a dress shirt and tie, sweater, no jacket. The chain guys just went on and on over the fact that I wasn't wearing a suit jacket. Not one question about my professional qualifications. Zero. Needless to say, after a bit of this I just played the rest of the interview for laughs, just wondering how long it was gonna last and how many more suits they would call into the room. Turns out it was well over an hour, and eventually I was talking to four members of senior management. They were just stark raving obsessed about my lack of sport-jacket-tude. Oh, and they didn't like my hair length, either: mind, it was rather short for the times. And this was way before the beard.

I still think of that as the "casting call" interview.