Thanks but no thanks… please just let me
know, ok?
Shock horror.. it is possible to be employed
and still search the field for greener grass yadda yadda we’ve heard this all
before. Ok. I get it. I’m doing it, but.. BUT there is one thing that is really
annoying.
Let’s go back...
For every candidate that sends me a CV, at
least I try to say “Thanks! We’ll let you know!” and I then do actually let them know. They don’t need timewasters and neither
do I.
And we are a very small company.
We don’t advertise about openings. We don’t
do cool videos about how amazing it is to work for us. We don’t advertise and
we don’t share much. But despite this, CV’s come. And we answer them ALL. 99%
of the time it's a negative, but at least we reply.
Now, I’m all for shouting out how great
work can be but nobody ever talks about follow-up.
Recently a very great and
cool company for which I have enormous respect advertised for an opening. In Italy! Given
the amount of content open to us mere mortals on how amazingly cool their work
world was, I checked them out. Actually I have been following them for a while
and LO! My dream job was there, right there on their website, OMG!! And yes, I took
a deep breath, updated my CV and APPLIED. I sent in my CV! Yahoo!
I applied with a heart filled with “Maybe” “What
if” “Could I?” “Should I”?? and all at once I put myself into the many shoes
that had the same drive to write to me for the very same thing.
And I expected the very same treatment. After
all, they do cool videos all the time about employment so they’re bound to
reply right?
Wrong.
No answer. Nada. Zip. Nowt. Niente.
Umm.
This is not cool. Yes, I do have a job and
yes I love it. BUT.
I applied to you. I stuck my neck out, like
many others before me so if you’re going to continue to post videos about how
amazing you are at employment, maybe you should work on your response strategy
because a “thanks but no thanks” is way better than an “apply but we’ll never
let you know…”
Just Saying.
