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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a phone interview, sent a thank you email and haven't heard anything back. My skills are in high demand on the job market, so his lack of response impacted my willingness to work for him as a boss. When their HR person called me back to invite for an office interview, I politely declined the invitation. If you, hiring managers, are interested in a candidate, you better reply to his/her emails.[/quote]

If you were otherwise interested in the job, this is ridiculous. Why would you expect all hiring managers to send a thank you to a thank you? I work in the nonprofit sector where projects do a lot of their own hiring because we have tiny HR departments. If I spent all my time replying to thank you emails from potential candidates, I'd be wasting a lot of time in which I'm actually supposed to be doing something else (I am not HR and hiring is not part of my job description). Reviewing applications and conducting interviews is already hugely time consuming. It doesn't mean that I don't care about responding to job applicants, and I follow up with them once I have news to share regarding a next step or a rejection. But why do I need to write back to a note that says "thanks for the interview" if I have nothing to say?

Applying for jobs is hard, but too few applicants these days seem aware that the world does not revolve around their job search (I am in the middle of two applicant searches right now and it has been a pain--especially for the  more junior position). I think it behooves both job seekers and hiring managers to occasionally put themselves in the others' shoes. 
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