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Is it now normal practice not to receive a response after interview?

Karen

Is it normal practice now to not receive a response from a face to face interview if you are unsuccessful?  I recently qualified in Level 3 and trying to get into HR.  I feel that this is rude and unprofessional that I have attended two interviews without having any response especially as these are for HR positions.

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  • Having just gone through a job hunting process I do find it very demoralising when you get no response at all. I attended an interview, thought it had gone well and was confident that I would get a second interview but I never heard another thing from them! Luckily I got another job offer the day after the interview so I didnt chase it up but I still sometimes wonder if they are still considering my application!

    In regard to Andre's point about feedback, whilst I understand the "fear" of giving feedback in case it prompts a claim, I actually think the opposite is true - if you give proper feedback with constructive reasons why then the candidate is more likely to understand that rather than the general "we had a number of high quality candidates...blah blah blah" that means nothing and can leave the feeling that maybe it was due to discrimination.

    However, the other side is that I have recently held an assessment centre for interns of which we had to cut it down to 4 successful candidates. It was actually very hard to give constructive feedback to the second choice candidates as in some cases it was almost a toss of the coin as to which candidate to offer to. I couldnt really give them any constructive feedback as they were an excellent candidate and if we had had another position they would have been offered.
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  • Having just gone through a job hunting process I do find it very demoralising when you get no response at all. I attended an interview, thought it had gone well and was confident that I would get a second interview but I never heard another thing from them! Luckily I got another job offer the day after the interview so I didnt chase it up but I still sometimes wonder if they are still considering my application!

    In regard to Andre's point about feedback, whilst I understand the "fear" of giving feedback in case it prompts a claim, I actually think the opposite is true - if you give proper feedback with constructive reasons why then the candidate is more likely to understand that rather than the general "we had a number of high quality candidates...blah blah blah" that means nothing and can leave the feeling that maybe it was due to discrimination.

    However, the other side is that I have recently held an assessment centre for interns of which we had to cut it down to 4 successful candidates. It was actually very hard to give constructive feedback to the second choice candidates as in some cases it was almost a toss of the coin as to which candidate to offer to. I couldnt really give them any constructive feedback as they were an excellent candidate and if we had had another position they would have been offered.
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