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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Etiquette Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:35 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	I've been out of the job-application grind for quite some time, so I was surprised to find that many companies that advertise jobs do not acknowledge responses. Anyone who takes the time to respond to an ad deserves a reply. When I last did this sort of thing, in the 1980s, that was the etiquette.
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vtuss	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:01 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 16, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 476 Location: Twin Cities	Sad to say. The first I found out about the filling of a recent job for which I applied (not with my current employer) was when a note went out at my workplace about someone else in the building giving notice to take it!
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:44 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	Many companies aren't responding after interviews, let alone not acknowledging applications. Many are angry if you check with them two or three weeks after they've promised to talk with you. (Embarrassment sometimes is a factor -- positions are being abolished or filled from within after interviews occur.)
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Editer	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:00 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	And HR is probably as understaffed these days as anyone else, so it's cutting what used to be fundamental services.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:11 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	That no doubt is true but I do not apply to HR departments. I contact only real editors and/or the people for whom I would work directly.
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copynomad	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:34 am
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:07 am Posts: 623	Agreed. There's no excuse for not acknowledging an application nowadays, even if only by e-mail. It takes next to no effort.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:39 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Geeze. I've spent the last year applying for every job that doesn't include asking customers if they want fries with that. A response to an application is unheard of unless the company wants to interview you.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Etiquette Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:01 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	And I spent a year before that applying for journalism jobs only. Etiquette doesn't figure into the equation.
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