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Why Employers Don't Answer Your Emails

Have you been applying to job after job without an interview in sight? Are you starting to think that your past experience and education are not worth what they were initially valued at?

Don't fret as you're not alone. Many job seekers have this trouble, but few take proactive, positive steps to correct the problem. However, in order to fix something, you have to admit that it's broken.

Here are 10 reasons why employers typically don't answer emails from prospective employees:

1. Not Following the Submission Guidelines - While information is readily available to us, it seems that many job seekers simply breeze over the job description and resume submission rules for various reasons.

Regardless of what the driver is, not following resume and cover letter submission guidelines is a surefire way to not receive a response.

2. Not Tailoring Resume and Cover Letter - For just about every job that a candidate applies to, some resume tweaking is strongly recommended. Sometimes, the desired content is on the resume, but is not highlighted and, therefore is passed over by the employer resulting in no response to the email application.

Just because you have the skills they're looking for, doesn't mean that they'll find these on your resume.

3. Being Over-eager - By nature, some sales and marketing job seekers are overly compulsive. This leads to irrational actions like following up on an email only hours after the resume and cover letter were sent. This is a very bad habit.

With regards to being over-eager, I cannot judge as I too am compulsive by nature, but I've learned to curb that behavior and the results have been like night and day.

4. Not Caring Enough - Being lazy is the best way to guarantee that you will not submit your resume and cover letter properly, you will not tweak your resume accordingly and, thus you will not receive a response to your application.

5. Applying to Jobs Not Qualified For - Holding out for a management position right after college? Want a job in social media when you have 5 years of solid sales experience? Either do something about it via learning the necessary skills or stop submitting your resume as you're not going to hear back.

It's an unfortunate truth that many job seekers have to come to terms with.

6. Applying to Jobs Overly Qualified For - Throwing out feelers for entry-level jobs when you were making 6-figures at your last position? Employers are less apt to consider your application simply because most people in these situations treat the positions as interim jobs until they find their ideal match.

Chalk you not hearing back from employers to nervousness on their part that you are a big flight risk.

7. Not Using Enough Sources - The more diversification you use in your job search, the more options you're going to have. The more options you have, the more likely you are to run across positions that prove to be a great fit. For more ways to diversify your job search, see the article below.

8. Relying on Others - Networking is a great way to find a job very slowly. Simply relying on others won't get any email responses because you won't have time to apply. Remember that any number multiplied by 0 comes out to a big fat goose egg.

9. Pacing Oneself - Apply to jobs slowly. If you go full-throttle and you're doing something wrong, you won't know how to pinpoint then correct the problem. Applying to a job is a one-shot thing.

Once you send your resume and cover letter one time, you might as well consider that company off limits for a year or two.

10. Failure to Research the Market - Not knowing what is going on in a particular industry is the same as throwing your applications in blindly. The best job seekers who apply to our recruiting firm for outside jobs understand the industry concerns and, subsequently are better at applying resulting in more responses to emails.

In the End

If you're not getting the results you want over and over again, isn't it time for a change? There are enough businesses out there to where you have not burned any bridges and following the above advice should not only get employers to answer emails, but should result in a plethora of interviews.

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