'I'd Like To Throttle The People Who Send Out Automated 'Dear John' Recruitment Emails

'I've been out of the market for a few months now, and it's tough enough trying to get your foot in the door to obtain interviews, and then you get knocked-back when nothing comes of the few you do manage to get.

But the most demoralising thing I find about this whole 'out of a job' thing is the automated 'Dear John' email responses you receive from either recruitment consultants or 'hiring' firms, which basically tell you to bog off and stop bothering them.

'Thank you for sending in your CV / resume', they usually begin, 'We'll get back to you in the event that we have anything suitable for you'. Well, you know damn well that there'll never be back in touch, and how the Hell would they know what was 'suitable' for me in any case, given that the sender can't even be bothered to pick up the phone and talk to me ?

Frankly, I'd like to throttle the people who send that kind of stuff out - it's so impersonal, a real case of 'computer says no'. And the line at the end - which usually goes something like: 'We wish you every success in your future career', is such a killer. You know the person who spent those precious 20 seconds looking over your CV / resume before he / she hit the 'get rid' button doesn't give a fig about you, or your career! It's so hypocritical.

Now I know that this is a rant, and that recruiters will say that they are under time and revenue pressures, and that this is the only way they can deal with the volume of people who come their way, but I can't help feeling that if they took a little more care and time assessing CVs like mine, they might find that me (and folks like me) are placeable candidates - after all, many of us have worked in banking, in a number of firms, for a number of years.

But, hey, there are thousands like me on the market right now, and I guess I'm just part of the 'volume'. I get that, but I sure as Hell don't like it!'.