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Receipt of Resume Letter

NHHRNHHR 17 Posts
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Does anyone send a general letter to all applicants stating you received his/her resume? - if so could you please send me a sample as I am looking to see how detailed I should get.

Thanks a bunch! TGIF :)

[email]HR@communitybanknh.com[/email]
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  • Don DDon D 9,834 Posts
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    FOR GOD'S SAKES NO!! Sorry for the excitement. I absolutely abhor making additional, unnecessary work for anybody, particularly for me. It wastes time and resources and it would serve to signal the person that you've opened dialog and invite more of it. This is my general feeling on the subject. Now if I had advertised a position of Executive Assistant to the Bank President or President of Vice and had three resumes, I might send them an email or note back. But, I'd have to think about that. There is certainly no ligitimate expectation or obligation that an employer do this.
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  • mushroomHRmushroomHR 583 Posts
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    I totally agree with Don D. Why make more work for yourself? Once these people get this acknowledgment you will never be rid of the people that aren't qualified for the position.
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  • Dutch2Dutch2 1,590 Posts
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    Same here. We only respond if the resume is for a position that we have advertised in the newspapers.
    Good luck,
    Dutch2
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  • NHHRNHHR 17 Posts
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    Thanks for the input...saves me some work! :)
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  • pork1pork1 1,054 Posts
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    NHHR: Since the invention of this computer thing and the NET, I have stopped dealing in any mailed resume with the exception of a few soon to graduate college students from the Dairy and Animal Science Department with whom we help to write resume's and will enroll a few. I even deal with them now via the e-mail. A quick punch of the reply button and "I got it, I'll get back to you when I generate an interest, keep me posted of your search via this mode. Thanks for your interest in us and have a Blessed day!" usually works for me and is not a whole lot of wasted time and effort on my part. When I read the attached resume file in my outlook folder, if it has value, I'll print it off and circulate, accordingly. Otherwise, it stays in the electronic file until I have a demand or a need to get a search underway.

    PORK
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  • ScorpioHRScorpioHR 338 Posts
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    Ha, send a response to a resume??No, I don't think so-Let me tell you a little story. I used to send responses to resumes, informing applicants that the position had been filled and thanking them for their interest....I advertised for a courier position, the people I did not choose I sent a letter. Well, next thing I knew I was in an EEOC mediation. This gentlemen (I use that term loosely) sued me for discrimination....
    Whatever, he lost-The point is, when I advertised for the position there was just my name and a fax#-Once I sent him a letter, he had it all, company name, my name, etc. And he decided to sue. My ads now are placed with a fax#, period. While they may still be able to get info to sue, it is a little harder and time consuming-I no longer send out "sorry you did not get the job" letters....
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  • Down_the_MiddleDown_the_Middle 771 Posts
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    Good Lord........ya'll are scaring me. Either you've pre-conspired to solicit reactions or ya'll are truly convinced that's the route to go.
    I do not. We send an acknowledgement card to EVERY applicant that applies (solicited or not) to simply acknowledge receipt, tell them what we're doing with their application and thank them for their inquiry. It does many things: it's courteous; saves phone calls from people who want to know what's happening; treats their inquiry as tho they are our customers----and they are!!; etc, etc, .... I've done it both ways and am firmly convinced the notification route is better. More work? Certainly. Have value? Yes. In some of my former lives I did this to deliberately weaken the arrogance and "police" perceptions that plagued these HR departments. It helped. Not by itself, but was a significant part of the turnaround. My 2-cents......
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  • Don DDon D 9,834 Posts
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    Applicant? Sure. At this corporation, an applicant is a person who has been invited in to complete an application for a specific position and who is subsequently interviewed for that position. We take no walk-in applications. All interviews result in follow-up, either telephone or letter or both to post the applicant on the process and where they are in it, if anywhere at all. A majority of the HR Departments in the United States are not sufficiently staffed to respond to thousands of resumes, most of which might be unsolicited. Additionally, we're a government contractor suffering the weight of Executive Order 11246, meaning WE do not accept or acknowledge resumes unless we are in an advertised recruitment mode. So in that event, the resume is discarded, in every case. I could literally work somebody to death crafting individual response letters to fit each circumstance, including, "Thank you for your recent resume, however it was not kept since we are not accepting any."

    Let's also think for a moment to the last time back in history when we, each of us, actually sat at the kitchen table and blind-mailed a bunch of resumes out and how many letters we got to acknowledge receipt. And whether or not we felt slighted by the non responses. I suggest doing so is certainly a minority practice. But, hey, vanilla and chocolate............

    And I am sorry to have frightened you. I apologize.
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