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Anyone who has ever applied for a job and never received a response - not even a rejection slip - will tell you that they wish they had at least received a consolation email detailing in just one line why they never got the call for an interview. 

Of course, recruiters and HR officers do not always have time at their disposal to get back to anymore applicants than those they are interested in hiring. 

But an impassioned post shared on LinkedIn by author of The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Brigette Hyacinth, revealed another possibility about recruiters looking for any small excuse to reject candidates.

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