The Pattern Nobody Publishes

There's a screen in GetJobzi I hesitated to build. It ranks employers by how many of your applications they ignored, then by how long they've been silent. Internally we called it what it is. On the page, it just shows the list.

The list I almost didn't build

I'm not going to name the companies here. Named employer rankings need a sample large enough to defend, and one person's search isn't that. What I can show you is the shape of the pattern, because the types of employer are the story.

From one search:

• A major public sector facilities contractor: 110 of 110 applications ignored. No reply since March 2024.
• A technology recruitment agency: 46 of 46 ignored.
• A specialist recruitment agency: 41 of 41 ignored.
• A global technology consultancy: 26 of 26 ignored.
• An IT recruitment agency owned by a multinational staffing group: 25 of 25 ignored.

Five employers. 248 applications. Zero replies between them.

Why the community line matters

Look at the community note on the first one: replies to 0% of five GetJobzi applicants. Five different people, five different searches, five different sets of experience. Same result.

That's a pattern, not bad luck. And it's the reason we built the screen — not to name and shame, but because recruiters don't reply to individuals, and they don't reply to silence either.

Owning the volume problem

331 applications to 22 employers is a lot. An average of 15 per employer, and 110 to one company alone. That's the volume problem, visible in the data. Part of it is how the search was run — this user used auto-apply, which we build and which we'll talk about honestly in a later post. Part of it is what silence does to people: you apply more because nothing is coming back.

Which is exactly why we don't reward applying. No points, no streaks, no targets. If we paid people to send applications, we'd be making this worse.

The gap between agencies and employers

Recruitment agencies on one side: 11 companies, 163 applications, 29% heard back. Direct employers on the other: 11 companies, 168 applications, 2% heard back.

That gap is the story. Agencies reply because their business depends on candidate relationships. Direct employers often don't, because nothing in their process forces them to.

To the hiring side: what's actually stopping a simple "this one's closed" message from going out? I'd genuinely like to know.