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We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by legalese_retard » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:03 am

I know a lot of rejection letters have sentences to this effect: "We will keep your application on file should our needs change in the future." Has anyone been contacted by a firm a few months later after receiving a rejection letter? I'm just wondering if a position does open up if firms are going over previous applications or if they just start brand new.

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by Danger Zone » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:10 am

It's a bullshit, boilerplate, meaningless line.

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by exitoptions » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:13 am

Danger Zone wrote:It's a bullshit, boilerplate, meaningless line.
While this is mostly true, I have a close friend who scored an interview a year later at a DA's office because they kept her resume "on file." Ended up getting the job. But, I really doubt most firms would keep files of old resumes.

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by BVest » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:46 am

As said, boilerplate.

Though I suspect that that most employers do keep them on file, especially employers with a document retention policy in place (which, if a legal employer doesn't have a policy, you might be better off not working there, especially if it ever has to go through discovery). Most policies I've seen tend to keep applications for employment for two years, probably to get them to the SOL in case there's any discrimination action brought.

Also, if an employee doesn't work out very early on (more applicable where the job is for immediate or almost immediate start and is permanent -- or at least longer than a 6-10 week summer gig) or reneges on an accepted offer, the employer is not going to want to do a new job posting for the same position and have to sort through resumes again, assuming there were more candidates they liked in the first pool.
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by jn7 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:52 am

I personally have never heard a response back from having my resume kept on file and everything said above is spot on from my experience. Thinking about it though maybe they do it for a short period of time in case the person who accepted pulls out unexpectedly or something?

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by patogordo » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:00 pm

it's legalese, retard

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by jn7 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:04 pm

Patogordo: You are thread stalking me! At any point in time, I feel like you will pop in, throw a 1-2 then slink out :lol: :lol:

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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.

Post by patogordo » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:10 pm

jn7 wrote:Patogordo: You are thread stalking me! At any point in time, I feel like you will pop in, throw a 1-2 then slink out :lol: :lol:
60 posts a day means i'm in basically every thread on tls

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