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Is ghosting during your job search, and lack of response frustrating? Are you in Europe?
Here's a way to get back at them: When you're sure you won't get a response, ask for a DSAR and if that's not enough, ask for a data deletion request. In the requests, hint the reason.
That will make the rest of the organization chase the ghosting recruiter until they change their practices ;)
Of course, they could go on and tell you one of the two things: "we didn't submit you" or "we submitted you but you weren't selected".
Having this information, one might try or not to approach the company through alternative channels. Not having this information is baffling.
Whenever I see jobs I like, posted by recruiting companies, I try to find out which is the real company with that opening, and if they have this job advertised, I apply to the company directly.
Which is not so difficult, considering how lazy some people are in transforming the job description to a job post; usually and for the not so professionals, just a copy / paste activity.
We all complain about not getting answers when applying, but here is what I have observed (repeatedly).
When you apply to companies, you get an answer in 80% of the cases. It may be a negative answer, and with no useful data telling you why you were not selected, but it is an answer.
When you apply to recruiting companies, you rarely get an answer. The reason for that may be that they may not have the role exclusively (or not at all). Don't just assume that they're bad, heartless, emotionless people; they may just not be authorized to reject you at all!
There is a "Director - Information/Cyber Security" job post in LinkedIn, with no text. It was probably posted accidentally, as the job description is (copied from the post) this: "xxxxx".
It already has 7 applicants.
-- cross posted from Twitter.
Josh Aas 🇺🇦