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Are Recruiters solely responsible for the ‘Black Hole’?

Here is an interesting article by Dana Knight that references two issues near and dear to my heart; a candidate’s right to know where they stand with regards to an application and the ‘black hole’ that exists in the job search process. Have a quick read:

I’m in search of a humongous black hole filled with millions of job applications and resumes. It has to be somewhere, because every other day I hear from someone who sent out a resume to a company and it “disappeared into some black hole.” Never heard of again.

It seems employers are forgetting their manners, being provocatively rude and outright snubbing potential candidates. Now I have no hard stats to prove this. But lots of you have been writing in to say, “What’s up with this?”

http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news4502.html
Hartford Business, 7 February 2008

I believe all candidates deserve timely communication when they apply for a job. After all, didn’t the Company advertise the job? Would we purposely drive traffic to our company and then treat people so poorly they write to journalists to complain?

I realize this IS an issue and many companies are actively working on it. However, before you start blaming 100% of the ‘black hole’ issue on Corporate Recruiting departments, did you know that up to 40% of emails never get delivered to their recipients? So maybe, just maybe, some of these “you didn’t get the job” emails end up in spam boxes or junk mail boxes and then the company is blamed for it? If you want to guarantee that your messages are being delivered and your candidates are actually being communicated with check out this company; http://www.mailprimer.com/home/