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- legalese_retard
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We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
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.
It's a bullshit, boilerplate, meaningless line.
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
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.Danger Zone wrote:It's a bullshit, boilerplate, meaningless line.
- BVest
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
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.
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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- jn7
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
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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- patogordo
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
it's legalese, retard
- jn7
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Re: We will keep your resume on file should our needs change.
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



- patogordo
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60 posts a day means i'm in basically every thread on tlsjn7 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![]()