Every Application Deserves an Answer

I've applied for roles and heard nothing. I've also been the person who had to tell candidates "no." The second one is easier than the first. Not because rejection is pleasant, but because it's definite. You know where you stand. You can move on.

Silence gives you nothing to move on from.

That's the idea GetJobzi started from. Not a review site, not a star rating, not another job board. A record of what actually happened.

What one real search looks like

This is one real search, last 30 days. 22 employers. 331 applications. Six replied — just over a quarter of the employers in this search. One interview. One rejection. Fourteen applications got no response at all.

And then the part that changes things: 11 needs action.

Not "11 pending." Not "11 awaiting response." Eleven employers where enough time has passed and nothing came back. Nine are now eligible for a Subject Access Request. Five pre-letters have gone out. Zero ICO complaints filed — so far.

That's the whole idea in one screen. Silence stops being something that happens to you and becomes something with a date and a next step.

The lever nobody tells you about

I want to be precise about this, because it's easy to overstate. There is no legal deadline for an employer to reply to a job application. None. They can ignore you forever and it isn't against the law.

What the law does give you is a different lever. When you apply, the employer collects your personal data. You have the right to ask what they hold and what they did with it. That's a Subject Access Request. They have one month to respond from the day you send it — extendable by up to two months if the request is complex.

A SAR won't get you an answer about your application. It gets you your data. But it does two things worth having: it puts a legal clock on the employer, and it tells them you're paying attention.

So the tracker turns that into a process: pre-letter → SAR → one month → ICO complaint. Every step has a date. Every deadline is visible.

What we won't do

We won't name and shame individual recruiters. We won't publish a score from four reports. We won't tell you who's "qualified" — we can't see the other candidates, we don't know the brief, and that's the employer's call to make.

What we can do is count. "110 applications, 0 replies, no response since March 2024" is a fact nobody can dispute. And enough facts become a reason to.

Every application deserves an answer. Not because every candidate deserves the job. Not because employers are villains. Because a system where silence is normal is a system where nobody can tell what's working — not candidates, not recruiters, not the companies genuinely trying to hire well.

If you've been on either side of this: what would actually make you feel like the process was fair? I'm genuinely asking.