Rejection E-mail

Earlier today I submitted your application for a job. 23 minutes later I received and email and I opened the link and it said. “Sorry, not a fit.” That was it! Am I wrong thinking that this is RUDE? I feel in 23 minutes no one even looked at my resume.

This response is like something they would teach at The Verizon School of Texting.
When I go to Macys I go into the fitting room to see if the clothing looks good and fits.

Steelguy in Houston, Texas said: Earlier today I submitted your application for a job. 23 minutes later I received and email and I opened the link and it said. “Sorry, not a fit.” That was it! Am I wrong thinking that this is RUDE? I feel in 23 minutes no one even looked at my resume.

This response is like something they would teach at The Verizon School of Texting.
When I go to Macys I go into the fitting room to see if the clothing looks good and fits.

Ha! You probably applied via an online app like Taleo or Kenexa. They are the worst. The machines actually "decide" everything now. Aint't technology something?

If you see this in the future, submit the app at 11:00 pm on Saturday night. If on Sunday morning, you get a rejection email, you just shook hands with the dark side of technology. HR doesn't work 24/7.

Heh! This has happened to all of us.

I'm not surprised. The lack of professionalism from prospective employers nowadays is astounding. Still, the substance of that email is wildly and embarrassingly inappropriate. I'm kind of thinking someone was possibly email mining for spam with a response like that. That's brutal.

Taleo is brutal. Do an about face whenever you see that name.

Kenexa, I've not heard of. But now I'm certainly wary of it as well.

Parafreegal in Chicago, Illinois said: I'm not surprised. The lack of professionalism from prospective employers nowadays is astounding. Still, the substance of that email is wildly and embarrassingly inappropriate. I'm kind of thinking someone was possibly email mining for spam with a response like that. That's brutal.

Taleo is brutal. Do an about face whenever you see that name.

Kenexa, I've not heard of. But now I'm certainly wary of it as well.

Both will check for "gaps" and put you in the B-Pile: Not printed, not processed. Both will also compare your salary requirements to "market rates" as well as the rest of the applicant pool.

Its like Match.com for job applicants. Heh!

Parafreegal in Chicago, Illinois said: I'm not surprised. The lack of professionalism from prospective employers nowadays is astounding. Still, the substance of that email is wildly and embarrassingly inappropriate. I'm kind of thinking someone was possibly email mining for spam with a response like that. That's brutal.

Taleo is brutal. Do an about face whenever you see that name.

Kenexa, I've not heard of. But now I'm certainly wary of it as well.

With all online apps, the trick I learned is to submit them on Saturday night and see if you get a rejection notice prior to Monday morning.

Now some online apps have had their programs upgraded and won't send out anything unless its a week day. Of course, this makes you think a person actually read it. Its BS.

Its happen to me a few times. Mostly with large companies.

Universities too. I applied to an admin job for Harvard once on a Wednesday night, and was rejected by 8 AM the following morning.

I'm kind of convinced that nobody is ever hired from online applications (Taleo, etc.). To go through them and fill out all of your information and then be asked to upload your resume, then cut and paste your resume and then add a cover letter is a gigantic waste of time and a hopeless cause in my experience.

Parafreegal in Chicago, Illinois said: I'm kind of convinced that nobody is ever hired from online applications (Taleo, etc.). To go through them and fill out all of your information and then be asked to upload your resume, then cut and paste your resume and then add a cover letter is a gigantic waste of time and a hopeless cause in my experience.

If they have a sophisticated HRIS sytem (online app), you are dealing with a company that is getting 1,000 apps for a single position. Even if you are qualified so are 20 other people. Then, it is just a numbers game and the odds are not in your favor.

And I completely agree with you about Taleo. I pass on those jobs.