Unsuccessful job applicants can harm employers
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Almost half (49%) of UK candidates have a negative perception of an organisation following an unsuccessful job application, according to research by talent assessment solutions provider SHL.
The research, which questioned 1,600 UK adults, found that 24% of respondents had had two or three bad experiences in the past and 6% as many as four or five, while 18% of respondents who had been through a bad recruitment experience had stopped doing business with the company as a direct result.
A further survey by SHL of 500 UK recruitment professionals shows that 25% of recruiters say they are overstretched as a result of increased job applications and of these, 19% say they are now unable to let candidates know when they have received their application.
The survey also shows that 17% don’t provide detailed feedback to interviewed candidates and 15% can’t let candidates know if they have not been successful after an initial application.
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L Casson | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 4:47 pm
Dear Sir, I think there is a higher level these days, of no manners anyway - no matter what the excuse/reason, it takes only a few minutes to email someone explaining the rejection. However, when that email rejection does come, it usually contains subliminal insults, such as "We had hundreds of highly qualified applicants", or "We will let YOU know if YOU are shortlisted" (condescending) or in the advert itself "You need to be..." meaning they need the applicant to be "Proactive, intellegent" - strange then that they usually have a high turnover of staff who must fail at the job.
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