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Don’t call us, we’ll call you – or not Charlie Taylor explains Debut’s campaign for improved interview feedback Debut, the award-winning student and graduate careers app, launched a national competition as part of its #FightForFeedback campaign, to identify a word that can encapsulate the low feeling a candidate experiences when an employer fails to share feedback after a face-to-face interview. Cue the tumbleweed blowing through what the winner has termed the ‘rec-zone’, a communications black hole to which unfeeling recruiters consign unsuccessful applicants. At Debut, we are investing time and resources into pushing the campaign forward in the interest of tomorrow’s candidates. Through our research, we identified that 83% of students and graduates aged 18-23 claimed to have never received feedback after a face-to-face
interview, leaving them feeling disheartened and confused. This is why we launched our #FightForFeedback campaign and encouraged teachers and employers to get involved. Young people are the future of the UK workforce, and they deserve constructive interview feedback to help them in their career journey. Their ambition should be admired, not shunned by teachers or employers. We must all appreciate and recognise the talent of millennials, rather than knocking their confidence and holding them back in their career search. Young people struggling to enter their first career understandably become down-hearted about the radio silence that so often comes after face-to-face interviews.
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