Don’t Lose Your Company’s Reputation By Leaving Job Seekers In The Dark!

• By Kamerin
• Business Technology
• 41 days ago

StartWire,  a game-changing Internet job search organizer that launced in 2011 does  a new job seeker survey which reveals startling results. Ever applied to a specific company and didn’t receive feedback regarding your application? Those initial smiles turn upside down as job candidates are left in the dark about their application. StartWire reveals that this could potentially damage a company’s reputation.

With more than 2000 respondents, the survey discovered  that 77 percent of job seekers think less of a company that doesn’t respond to a job application. 72 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to recommend companies’ products or services, and 58 percent would take a second look before buying a product from a company that did not respond to their job application. Doesn’t sound too enlightening does it?

“It is easy to understand job seekers’ frustration when they submit résumés but never get a response,” says Chris Forman, CEO of StartWire. “But what most companies don’t realize is that not providing feedback can really hurt their image. Those potential hires may also be customers, and how a company manages job applicants can really travel fast through word-of-mouth.”

StartWire comes to the rescue in their venture to improve the job search process. How so? They are celebrating its one-year launch anniversary this month and closes the “résumé black hole” by providing job seekers with automatic application status updates from thousands of employers. Let’s all give StartWire a round of applause shall we!

We are all aware that searching for a job is a job within itself. So there’s a high level of frustration during the process of job hunting which this survey greatly reveals. Of those looking for their next position, 90 percent said getting feedback on their applications would make the overall process of applying for jobs less frustrating. While more than 90 percent of job seekers follow-up with potential employers on their status, only 33% of Fortune 500 companies provide feedback through their application systems.

What these companies fail to understand is that communication is key! Leaving job seekers “in the dark” on their application status lose out on potential star team-players. A staggering 96 percent of job seekers are more likely to apply for a job if they know they will receive regular updates on their application status.

“StartWire provides automatic feedback from over 5,600 employers. It eases the stress of the job hunt for the applicant and makes companies look good. Everyone wins,” says Forman. StartWire can be portrayed as the new “superhero” coming to the rescue for all those job seekers out there being left in the dark. “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s StartWire!”