We Shall Keep Your CV.

We Shall Keep Your CV.
A reader writes:
In most of the jobs where I’ve been interviewed and rejected the rejection letter says something like “We will hold on to your CV and contact you if we ever have any jobs that meets your needs” or something like this. Is this just being polite or is it possible that some time down the road they will actually contact me with an offer?

My Thoughts.
Well, it’s highly unlikely they’ll contact you out of the blue with an offer. But they might contact you with an invitation to apply for another position.

That said, this statement has become part of the standard pablum that a lot of Kenyan companies include in their rejection letters and, more often than not, has little meaning. On the other hand, some companies do mean it and do search previously submitted Cv’s  looking for well-matched candidates when they have new openings.

So the answer is unsatisfying: Sometimes they mean it and sometimes they don’t.

Dear reader, what do you think?