Regret to inform you email12/2/2023 That all takes time, effort, self-belief. We are expected to tailor them, reflect the job description and person spec, shape our CVs and research the company to show this isn’t just any application, I really, really want to work for you. Shockingly, there are a few more that have fallen strangely silent further down the process.Īpplications take time and effort. Agencies and some well-known names, organisations that I thought I wanted to work for, that I thought shared my values but when it comes down to it, don’t even have the common decency to say, “no thank you”. That’s two out of every five applications that is a complete waste of time and effort. A monstrous 40% did not respond in any way to an initial application, even with a group email. I’ve kept a spreadsheet to monitor my job applications since being made redundant, carefully recording the outcomes. If you interview six people for one vacancy, that’s five difficult conversations. But letting people down is part of the process – not the nicest part, but necessary, nonetheless. Recruitment takes time, and often the people doing it are under pressure already. How you treat people while they seek employment with you speaks volumes – how you send them away because they have been unsuccessful tells us more. Brand is every exposure to the organisation we get, and we never get closer to that organisation that when we look to become part of it. Far too many forget that the candidate’s experience of the recruitment process is every bit as much the corporate values in action as customer service is. While much is said about the candidate side of recruitment, we need to have a deeper conversation about recruiters. Then there’s the culture evolving out of these values, that invariably these days mentions mental health. Values always sound so impressive: we are brave, we are accountable. Recruitment, I have come to learn, is the best way to find out if an organisation walks its talk – if the people working there truly live their values.
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