"Hey John, thanks for sending in an application. Unfortunately the role is not currently available. We haven't had the resourcing to keep our ATS as up to date as we would like."
Send an email to the applicant. Automate it so it's near zero-cost. It's called human decency.
Hiring managers are incapable of doing this. It's not that the industry can't do this, it's that they're lazy, incompetent, and immoral.
That pretending someone with honest and constructive intent doesn't exist has become a default response mechanism is gross in most circumstances.
Send an email to the applicant. Automate it so it's near zero-cost. It's called human decency.
Hiring managers are incapable of doing this. It's not that the industry can't do this, it's that they're lazy, incompetent, and immoral.
That pretending someone with honest and constructive intent doesn't exist has become a default response mechanism is gross in most circumstances.