Timeline for Does a one-line email response from a job seeker show a lack of interest?
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| Jul 22, 2017 at 23:30 | comment | added | Giacomo1968 | @Philip: 🐸 ☕️ … | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 19:45 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @JMac that's more or less what my own answer says - they might not have realised any other response would be acceptable. | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | Pharap | I am internally weeping at this prospect. What is the world coming to? | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | JMac | @trichoplax It reminds me a lot of the actual feature for accepting meeting invitations that's built into outlook (and I assume other mail programs). If that happened to me I would likely assume the same thing. | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 3:02 | comment | added | OnoSendai | @EllenSpertus good point, but it seems that the engine responsible for this feature supports alternative punctuation choices as well (static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/…). We may also want to consider the possibility of the mentioned reply not being a 100% accurate copy, or a translation. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 23:00 | comment | added | Ellen Spertus | Good answer, but I don't think it was the case here because of the missing comma. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 21:17 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @stannous - I think I've used it once ever. It was pretty handy that one time because I was on my phone (where composing a proper email is a PITA), the recipient clearly preferred a quick response, and it was in fact the exact answer I had in my head when I read the email. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 19:49 | comment | added | stannius | @T.E.D. the offered responses are rarely exactly right. I've found them to be more of a good starting point for a response; luckily you get a chance to modify the response before sending. Especially in the OP's situation where there were actually two questions, and the canned response only answered one of them. And that the response was worded so generically that the OP wondered if the candidate was truly interested or not. Don't get me wrong, I really like this feature of gmail, but you have to put a little more thought into your correspondence when it's job-candidacy related! | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 18:19 | comment | added | T.E.D. | To be fair, that feature was added to gmail because those are the most common responses to that type of email. If none of the options were ever exactly how a real person would want to respond, the feature would be useless. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @stannius I think there's another opportunity for confusion here - I added a second half to my answer to explain. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 18:10 | comment | added | Philip | @JakeGould smbc-comics.com/?id=3576 | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 17:19 | comment | added | Giacomo1968 | @stannius “Does this not mean that the candidate is even lazier and less interested?” How many different ways does one have to say “Yes!” to a one sentence query? Why are you inferring other motives to an answer than what might exist? | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | OnoSendai | @trichoplax that was exactly my initial reaction as well. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | stannius | Does this not mean that the candidate is even lazier and less interested? He couldn't even be bothered to modify the response with to add "and I am willing to relocate"? He could have used the time he saved not typing most of the sentence. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:54 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | I can't speak for the recipient in this case, but personally I initially mistook this new feature for something provided by the sender (rather than by Gmail), and therefore assumed that this was the intended method of responding. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 14:54 | comment | added | Giacomo1968 | In a few years all human communication will be canned responses and maybe a few emoji mixed in. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 14:05 | history | edited | OnoSendai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 13:33 | history | answered | OnoSendai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |