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Reaching out to your former coworker sounds like a smart move, honestly. Especially if you already have some rapport, you might get some honest feedback about why you were passed on or if there's a flag in their system about previous applicants - all that unspoken stuff that never makes it into the official rejection email.
I've been in a similar spot before, getting ghosted after an interview. Turns out my resume just kept getting auto-rejected by their system because it matched an old application or didn't have some weirdly specific keywords, which is super annoying because no recruiter ever tells you this.
If you're aiming to regroup and reapply anywhere (or even for that company months down the line), I'd run your resume through an ATS scanner just to check for anything that could get you filtered out, especially if you've applied there before. I usually try out Resume Worded, ResumeJudge, and sometimes SkillSyncer for this since they all pick up slightly different things. Just helps you cover the bases before you send it in again.
If your former coworker gives you any super detailed insight, please share the tea here - everyone could use more of that rare behind-the-scenes info on these application black holes.
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seriously? you would go to HR and they will provide you detailed feedback on a particular applicant?
wow
where are you employed and what is the position?
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Obviously, you and that former coworker of yours are not buddies or close friends; otherwise, you wouldn't have had to Google them to find out where they work. And is that former coworker even in HR? It doesn't sound like it.
So the answer is simple. Just imagine the situation in reverse:
You're employed somewhere, and all of a sudden a former coworker you barely remember contacts you. They tell you that their résumé was rejected by your company without any feedback and ask you to find out what happened.
Would there really be anything you could tell them?