The Recruiting Manifesto - A blog about Recruiting, Job Search Tips/Increasing Marketability, Branding, and Social Media/Marketing » candidate experience http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com Discussions and thoughts on IT Recruiting, the Candidate Experience, and the Job Search Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:19:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A simple tip to improve the candidate experience http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/09/a-tip-to-improve-the-candidate-experience/ http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/09/a-tip-to-improve-the-candidate-experience/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:08 +0000 Ehren Seim http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/?p=616 Ahh, my poor bro-in-law, on the streets looking for a job again. I feel for him. He’s a college grad, but came out of college at a terrible time, and has bounced around from temp job to temp job for a while. He has a little experience in the mortgage biz now, but has the knowledge and skills to be put into really any kind of position. So I’ve been following him along on his search. I wrote a post a while ago about one of his experiences, Giving and Taking Career Advice, but I was a little disgusted about a recent one as well.

I know I say this A LOT, but I’m not perfect. I’ve made these same mistakes, but I make a diligent effort to help people out, no matter what the circumstance. After seeing people struggle to find jobs, it’s made me realize how much it hurts and how difficult that process can be, especially nowadays. If you’re a recruiter, please, please, please, make this one little effort. Respond to the candidates that you have interviewed or that have interviewed at your employer. I don’t care how big of a company you are and how busy you are, that is just simply common courtesy. I was a little disappointed to learn just how common this is. Simply ridiculous if you ask me, and something that takes so little time to do. If you’re afraid of hurting feelings, it hurts more by not responding.

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