"Catbert level sadism 101"

From an anonymous submission, I would say that an email like this says:

  1. We don’t care about you

  2. We don’t care about the hiring process

  3. We don’t care about the company we work for.


Dear [REDACTED],

You are receiving this email because you have applied to [REDACTED COMPANY] 
in the last 3 months. We have recently made a switch in our applicant tracking 
system and this has caused us to lose some of our candidates in the process. 
If you are interested in continuing to engage with us and our opportunities, 
please go to our new careers site at https:/[REDACTED] and fill out either a 
generic application to get into our system or search for a role that fits your 
qualifications and apply that way.

We appreciate your time and past interest and we are hoping to continue to 
engage with you!

Thanks,

[REDACTED]
Sr Mgr Talent Advisors
[REDACTED COMPANY]

This is even sadder when you consider that the company is one of the big cloud e-commerce providers. Would you host your data with a company that can’t even keep track of it’s own data?

The tone-deafness for them to say is “we respect your time” is incredible. No. No you don’t. ATS systems are some of the most infuriating things a user can deal with, and the failure of them to work properly ensures that any serious candidate spends a significant amount of time fighting with the system to make sure their details are fully entered.


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