Why people donot get feedback about outcome of their application???

[Lastlonger]

I am an IT Professional and have been working as a Freelance for 10 years. Over time I’ve always have been proactive and very professional in my career and always reach out to companies for work whether via Agency or Direct.
Here are my experiences which I am writing here so that I do hope others would take this into consideration and understands this.
1. When I was in between jobs I’ve wrote to my local organisations via email and sent them my Covering Letter and CV to organisation directly for Permanent and Contract opportunities. I know they were looking people but I didn’t know anyone within the organisation to put a wording in for me.
a. I have not heard any feedback from HR or the IT Director/Manager despite emailing few times nor received feedback on my CV.
2. Also same as above I was determined to hear from them so this time I’ve hand delivered my Covering Letter and the CV to companies Reception, followed by an Email to HR about my CV which handed to them 2-3 days ago for an outcome.
a. The result not surprisingly “no news or reply to emails”.  Deserves Three SAD Faces.
3. I’ve started new contract and start working for my new client everything is going very well “I think I am the lucky one on this occasion” Deserves  Three Smiley faces and I am happy at the moment. However, I was determined to know, why organisations small or large couldn’t bother to send feedbacks or notify candidates for the receipt of their CV/Applications…
I needed to understand this why many people like me who determine and are looking for work do all the leg work but they don’t even get feedback from their applications…

4. I’ve put out my own experiment and sent out my CV and covering letter to organisations local area where currently I am contracting and the Local companies where I live as well as further afield to see who will reply and send me the outcome of my CV, I believe I have submitted about 100 applications. Also I have hand delivered some of organisations myself and emailed the others to the companies those are looking for candidates like myself hoping somehow I will receive some information and feedback on my CV.
a. Out of those only the very few small organisations provided feedback

The question is: - Why Recruitment Agencies and the organisations cannot be bother to write couple of sentence to say “We sorry but your application is not successful for this and that reason”. Surely this is not complicated.

[Midland White]

It's just the way it is. But you decided to send out hundreds of CVs to prospective employers as an experiment - with no intention of taking an interview or job if offered? Somewhat pot calling kettle is it not?

[rocktronAMP]

I am an IT Professional and have been working as a Freelance for 10 years. Over time I’ve always have been proactive and very professional in my career and always reach out to companies for work whether via Agency or Direct.
Here are my experiences which I am writing here so that I do hope others would take this into consideration and understands this.
1. When I was in between jobs I’ve wrote to my local organisations via email and sent them my Covering Letter and CV to organisation directly for Permanent and Contract opportunities. I know they were looking people but I didn’t know anyone within the organisation to put a wording in for me.
a. I have not heard any feedback from HR or the IT Director/Manager despite emailing few times nor received feedback on my CV.
2. Also same as above I was determined to hear from them so this time I’ve hand delivered my Covering Letter and the CV to companies Reception, followed by an Email to HR about my CV which handed to them 2-3 days ago for an outcome.
a. The result not surprisingly “no news or reply to emails”.  Deserves Three SAD Faces.
3. I’ve started new contract and start working for my new client everything is going very well “I think I am the lucky one on this occasion” Deserves  Three Smiley faces and I am happy at the moment. However, I was determined to know, why organisations small or large couldn’t bother to send feedbacks or notify candidates for the receipt of their CV/Applications…
I needed to understand this why many people like me who determine and are looking for work do all the leg work but they don’t even get feedback from their applications…

4. I’ve put out my own experiment and sent out my CV and covering letter to organisations local area where currently I am contracting and the Local companies where I live as well as further afield to see who will reply and send me the outcome of my CV, I believe I have submitted about 100 applications. Also I have hand delivered some of organisations myself and emailed the others to the companies those are looking for candidates like myself hoping somehow I will receive some information and feedback on my CV.
a. Out of those only the very few small organisations provided feedback

The question is: - Why Recruitment Agencies and the organisations cannot be bother to write couple of sentence to say “We sorry but your application is not successful for this and that reason”. Surely this is not complicated.

Get over it!

Advice:

Start a self-marketing spreadsheet. Note down the agents and responses over a time (weeks in the year). Use or learn conditional formatting to turn abbreviations into colours as you mark the cells. NR becomes No Response (Red), ACT (Agent Contacted me by Telephone) , ACE (Agent contacted me by Email) in green, ICAE (I COntacted Agent by Email) .... you get the idea. Keep on filling in this spreadsheet for every agent, connection, networking contact and every conversation. Sometimes you will not have a computer, so always use pen paper or grey matter memory. Over time, a period of months or even years, you will build data chart that you can glance at. You will see the chalk from the cheese in other words. A spreadsheet is better unless you want to keep a massive chart in your living room.

[DTexas]

I sympathise with the original poster. For every failed application I have requested feedback. My persistence means that in 75% of applications I get some.

Some feedback are useless. Some are pure lies. Some can be helpful. After a while you can spot which is which.

One thing you should not do, in my view, is take a feedback too seriously as often they are just looking for something to say. Stay confident and be yourself.

As far as length of time to hear back - this is also an area where a classic agency lie is told : "don't worry, no news is good news". No it isn't. Not at all.

[SimonMac]

The question is: - Why Recruitment Agencies and the organisations cannot be bother to write couple of sentence to say “We sorry but your application is not successful for this and that reason”. Surely this is not complicated.

TL;DR

Long story short, its not worth their while to get in touch with people they can't make money from, their time (for them) is better used making sales calls or speaking to the people they cab get work for.

An example if you compare mortgage deals you don't go to the people who weren't good enough and say "Well it was a close call but we are gonna go with another bank"

[DTexas]

We're approaching a point with feedback whereby no company will offer any at all, or they will be so bland and useless they won't be worth anything to the candidate. Just like how references have gone. Companies too afraid to tell the truth, as they see it as a 'risk' to state their opinions about someone.

[eek]

We're approaching a point with feedback whereby no company will offer any at all, or they will be so bland and useless they won't be worth anything to the candidate. Just like how references have gone. Companies too afraid to tell the truth, as they see it as a 'risk' to state their opinions about someone.

Hardly surprising when s threaten people everytime something doesn't quite work...

[TheFaQQer]

1. When I was in between jobs I’ve wrote to my local organisations via email and sent them my Covering Letter and CV to organisation directly for Permanent and Contract opportunities. I know they were looking people but I didn’t know anyone within the organisation to put a wording in for me.
a. I have not heard any feedback from HR or the IT Director/Manager despite emailing few times nor received feedback on my CV.

With English like that, I'm not surprised.

[TheFaQQer]

The question is: - Why Recruitment Agencies and the organisations cannot be bother to write couple of sentence to say “We sorry but your application is not successful for this and that reason”. Surely this is not complicated.

Takes time, costs money, adds nothing for them.

If there was any benefit, they would do it, but since there isn't, you are just a cost to them.

[tractor]

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Get over it!

Advice:

Start a self-marketing spreadsheet. Note down the agents and responses over a time (weeks in the year). Use or learn conditional formatting to turn abbreviations into colours as you mark the cells. NR becomes No Response (Red), ACT (Agent Contacted me by Telephone) , ACE (Agent contacted me by Email) in green, ICAE (I COntacted Agent by Email) .... you get the idea. Keep on filling in this spreadsheet for every agent, connection, networking contact and every conversation. Sometimes you will not have a computer, so always use pen paper or grey matter memory. Over time, a period of months or even years, you will build data chart that you can glance at. You will see the chalk from the cheese in other words. A spreadsheet is better unless you want to keep a massive chart in your living room.

"Over time, a period of months or even years, you will build data chart that you can glance at" and realise what a waste of time and effort it all is and wish you had done something sensible instead.

FTFY