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The Bad Business Practise of Not Responding
In this day and age of electronics, there is no excuse for a business not to respond to a job applicant.
The following can be added to the ending of the heading of this post: “… and to emails, letters, phone calls, charitable inquiries, sponsorship support and anything else you can think of.” The question is: why do so many large corporations spend huge amounts of money on advertising on the wonderful services or products the company provides to attract customers and then ignores and alienates prospects who are already aware of the company and if treated fairly, could become paying customers?
As you can see from the above, the title to this post would have been way too long and meandering but I am sure you get the point.
If during a conversation at a party or a backyard barbeque and the name of a company comes up that I boycott, I make no bones about the reason I do not buy from them or use their services. I work on the principle that if one person tells five people then each of those five people will tell five people and so on. In a study conducted at a US university back in the 70s, it was found that customers unhappy with a particular company told eleven people…
