In the UK Employers are not Legally Required to define why a person being interviewed was not selected.Originally posted by Amazon warrior
Really? I thought they were. ??? Ah, well. But most reasonable employers will tell you why you got rejected if you ask, I think.
Edit: Although finding this out is bloody difficult. A Google search of UK employment law just gives me endless lists of law firms.
Ach, I give up.
But, there is nothing stopping someone asking, doesn\'t mean of course that the potential employer will answer.
Over the Years I\'ve interviewed dozens of potential employees, and to be honest if some of them had requested post interview assessments I\'d have been hard pushed to give them an answer that they could have accepted. Not everyone is willing to take criticism of a stranger who has only 20-30 minutes of direct face to face contact to assess someone\'s suitability for a role, whether as part of a team or not.
Doing the pre-assessments for interviews is difficult enough, but the interviews can be a nightmare for both sides of the table.
Don\'t forget that in the selection process for jobs, getting an interview is a success in itself. Just because there might be 20 applicants for 2 posts doesn\'t mean you failed, only that the empoyer can afford to set extremely high criteria for the posts and therefore be forced to not select people that they would nornally jump at the chance to employ if they had more posts to fill. (Been there and hated it from my side of the table)
Trying to explain to someone in a post interview discussion that their interview manner was both aggressive, critical and distainful (Which I had to do once) is very very difficult.
However it\'s more than been made up for by the amount of pleasure, telling someone that they\'ve been successful, has generated. Their reactions can be very surprising, even had someone burst into tears once.
