I get a ton of unsolicited emails asking for a job. They’re always from very qualified people, I just can’t hire everybody.

I happened to mention this to, of all people, my mother (a retired librarian who helps out now at my business) and she said I should answer every email even if I’m not interested because it’s the professional thing to do.

Do you agree?

  • hammong@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I agree with your mom.

    I have a standard response that goes sort of like, “Thank you for your interest in working for XYZ, Inc… We are not hiring at this, but encourage you to watch for our job postings on somewebsite.com and apply in the future.”

    It takes seconds per message. If you are getting hundreds of thousands of messages a day, I’d suggest setting up an applications@ or jobs@ or postings@ address and then configure an auto-reply message with similar text if you have no openings.