Letters of Rejection

[dave_c]

Post interview, do most companies/institutions (p*ss takenly) not even bother sending a quick letter of rejection just to conveniently inform the applicant?

Even when it's a short list of around five?

[WoWo]

I would think when it gets to a short list of 5 they would give at least some form of notification.

But it wouldn't suprise me if they didn't bother.

[Tracee]

Post interview, the majority of companies write rejection letters to the unsuccessful applicants, if only to avoid the uncomfortable phonecalls from them!

If you don't make it to interview though, in my experience the majority don't consider it polite to acknowledge your application, even with the 10-page application form they made you spend a day filling out!

[Hermia]

We've just had 1000+ applications for 5 posts so no we won't be writing rejection letters to those who didn't make it to the interview stage! We're a public library and couldn't afford the postage.

[Machecoul]

Agree with Hermia - it can be a very costly writing to those not called for interview.

But I do ring all the unsuccessful candidates from the interviews and offer them the chance of feedback on their interview.

[dave_c]

Sorry Hermia, my apologies, you probably didn't understand my question, it's pretty obvious that they'll be mass number of applicants vying for an interview and understandably it'll be difficult to send a lot of those applicants rejection letters. But I'm talking about applicants who made it to the interview.

[Polotoo]

Hi There!

We always send letters to the candidates after interview offering them the opportunitity of feedback-its only polite as you've given up your time to come and see us!

However, like the earlier comment we don't if you aren't selected for interview-takes too long and costs too much but candidates are advised in their application pack that if they haven't heard by ** date then they are unsucessful.

The only difficulty when advising people after interview is sometimes our managers take too long to decide who they want! Or if we have two candidates who are very close-we may wait in case one turns us down! (Bit cheeky I know but..)

Maybe this helps, I dunno.