Babson College

In May 2016 I applied for a “senior instructional multimedia designer” position they advertised. I applied, and heard nothing. I then foolishly applied for a “multimedia and conceptual designer” position they advertised the following August. On October 4, I received their rejection email for the job I applied for back in May. As this was from what appeared to be a functioning email address (careers@babson.edu), I replied back: “I applied for this job IN MAY. That it took your HR department FOUR MONTHS to reject me is nothing short of pathetic. Don't bother sending me a rejection email come January for the multimedia design job for which I foolishly applied last month (and how very bizarre that I didn't even qualify for a telephone screening despite my background in eLearning).” No response received.

I was ready to forget about this latest bunch of nonsense when the first job from May appeared on LinkedIn. I sent them another email (this time to the address shown on their website, hr@babson.edu): “In regards to this position which was first advertised in May...I had assumed you filled this role long before I received your rejection email (forwarded below), but after stumbling across it *again* on LinkedIn, I see that it remains advertised on your website. This is disgusting. Either your hiring team is grossly incompetent (which I stated in my previous email below) or this job is fake, posted to harvest applicants' personal information which you can then sell to the highest bidder (which is what I am now beginning to believe). Shame on you.” Again, no response received.

As of today, October 9, the job (which is obviously fake) remains advertised on their website:

I think this makes for a mighty fine lesson to their undergraduates (each paying $60K/year to attend) in how they should expect to be treated as job applicants after graduation by potential employers.