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Have you ever had a really confusing response from the hiring deptartment that left you scratching your head and wondering if they were even looking at your resume?

I just had one of those moments, when I re-applied for a call center that is close to where I live and go to school.  To give some history, I worked there for 2 years, got all the way to escalations desk, where I was bottle-necked, because people weren't leaving the internal help desk fast enough to let anyone advance, since they implemented a stupid rule saying everyone who wanted to become a supervisor or higher, or switch to a different dept, had to advance in level through the internal help desk, of which there were only two teams of roughly 25-30 people.  Well, at a certain point they decided they were going to switch to pay per call, instead of an hourly wage.  This disagreed with me, being in escalations and knowing damn well even the fastest escalation call was still much longer than the average regular call.  So, I found a different job and quit. 

Well, things have changed a bit, and the other job simply became too difficult to commute to (construction on the train made for extremely long commutes), so I have re-applied back at the other place, knowing from my contacts there that they went back to hourly pay.   Now, I have just received a letter from the recruiter I sent my resume to, saying I was not a good match for the position...  Wakarimasen.  Nan Da Yo? 

Needless to say, I am very confused. 

Tell me about your head scratching recruiter moments, and we can all puzzle them over together.

Confuse em right back with "The Ultimate Rejection Letter"!!! (forwarded to me in my email several years ago)

Herbert A. Millington

Chair - Search Committee

412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University

College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,

Chris L. Jensen

Gotta love this guys attitude!

Both of those letters sound like a template. IOW, the job opening was bogus to begin with, or it was already filled, or it might become available sometime in the distant future, or the company was inundated with resumes.

If you are sending your resume to the HR department, don't. Send it to the hiring manager. He may trash it, but at least he won't have a fill-in-the-blanks rejection letter waiting to send you.

First off Pheadd... I know I'm a bit late on these forums, but that was an awesome letter haha

The next time I'm out searching for work and I get a rejection letter, you better believe that a return letter from me to them will be in that format exactly :]

Second, I think most of the time recruiters or hiring managers often just "graze the pile" of applicants until one "catches their eye".  I've had a boss that I worked under for almost a year, and the whole time he was unaware of my background completely even though he was the one who hired me!  Needless to say, I don't think anybody in management (myself excluded ;] ) pays much attention to things that aren't of immediate concern to them.  Sadly most of the time your management team wasn't selected because of their attention to detail lol