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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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Seems to depend on the size of the company. When I was a hiring manager at GE, it was our HR department's responsibility to send "no thanks" letters to anyone who I rejected, either after looking at the resume or after an interview.

Now that I'm on the other side of the proverbial coin; I rarely get a "no thanks" in response to a resume. I get one about 50% of the time after an actual interview. (And this really irritates me; if we all took time to meet face-to-face, a few seconds to send an email to wrap up things doesn't seem to be asking too much, does it?) I did have one company call in response to a resume to clarify the job, which turned out to not be what I was looking for. That was nice.