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06 December, 2011

Social Q's

'Times' Advice Guru Answers Your Social Q's
 On the December 5th 2011 edition of Fresh Air host Terry Gross discusses modern day advice columns with Philip Galanes, a New York Times advice columnist. His column and new book are called "Social Q's." During the interview they discuss one of the questions he gets a lot about breaking up via email or text. It got me thinking about the number of employment rejections I have gotten via email. As a job candidate how does this make you feel?

4 comments:

  1. It is better than no response at all. It has been a few years since I was on the job market, but I was appalled at how often applications to advertised openings went entirely unacknowledged.

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  2. Thanks Anonymous,

    That is a whole other issue, which I might go into more depth at a latter time, but yes those are more troublesome than a cold generic email.

    -George

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  3. Companies that are using web-based recruiting systems typically have control over the content of email messages sent to candidates. However, it takes time and creativity (not to mention motivation) to craft email messages that come off as at least remotely personal. Those items (particularly time) are in very short supply in today's corporate environment. The message to top management needs to be that every candidate (even the rejected one) is also a potential customer. That might frame the issue in a different light.

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  4. Anonymous brings up a good point about web-based recuriting systems. When I last worked at an academic institution I got to know some of the folks in the central HR office. They talked about the system rejecting qualified candadtes if they didn't use the proper keywords or answer all the check quesitons correctly. Fortunetaly they still had the resources to check rejections by hand to make sure to avoid this. I am not sure I could say the same thing today about academia or if we could ever say the same thing about the corporate world.

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