"We will keep your materials on file should anything change..." Forum

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:37 pm

Has anyone ever received an email back from a firm rejecting them, but then saying "We will keep your materials on file should anything change..."? If you had, did you or do you know anyone who saw anything come of that? Or is it just a soft rejection? (Guessing the latter)

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:45 pm

Plenty of times. It's (arguably) a more polite ding.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:46 pm

It's boilerplate.

toast and bananas · Post by **toast and bananas** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:52 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:It's (arguably) a more polite ding.

I'm not sure I think it is polite, but I'm sure they think it is, which is why they do it. Why keep someone's hopes up like that if they could just say "thanks, but all SA positions are filled" and accomplish the same thing? I'm sure it's happened on occasion, but I've never heard of a firm saying "never mind" to its rejection.

Tr3 · Post by **Tr3** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:13 pm

I've had an employer contact me about a year after receiving a "we'll hold your info" email. It wasn't a law firm, though.

lolwat · Post by **lolwat** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:13 pm

I have actually had follow-ups. I can only think of one firm off the top of my head, but I could swear there were maybe 2 or 3 employers (firms and otherwise). But that's out of hundreds, if not thousands, of apps that I've sent over the many years during law school and my clerkship.

Probably even rarer for SA positions, and for biglaw firms. Smaller firms or other employers can have their hiring needs change a lot more quickly and often.

immikeyiiirock · Post by **immikeyiiirock** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:13 pm

It's their way of saying "please don't call or contact us again...We'll call YOU [probably never]"

anon sequitur · Post by **anon sequitur** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:19 pm

Yeah this is just a way of saying you don’t need to follow up with anything, it’s out of your hands now. It helps with the 1% of people with no boundaries.

gaddockteeg · Post by **gaddockteeg** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:51 pm

Yeah, I always interpreted it to mean: don't email us again because we have your stuff already.

ManoftheHour · Post by **ManoftheHour** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:35 pm

It's a rejection.

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