We at SCI were quite surprised to see this post and immediately began to investigate. There were a number of things in this post that confused us. We have never posted for a job titled “Channel Sales Manager”, and further had no positions open in the month of June 2016 nor did we conduct any phone interviews in that month. We did post a job on July 5th for a New Business Development Manager, both on our web site as well as on LinkedIn and Monster. We believe this may be the job at the source of this issue as it is the only job we filled last year. We received dozens of applications (maybe close to 100) and all were screened for the requisite experience. We identified 8 applicants for phone interview with HR and conducted those phone interviews during July and August of 2016. 3 of the 8 applicants were passed to the final stage, and all 5 that were not moved on were sent a personalized response. Of the final 3, one dropped out during the process, one was hired, and the last was personally notified of our decision to go another direction. The day the offer was accepted (9/23) the job was taken down off our website. We suspect that this may be someone who was disgruntled that they were not sent any sort of response to their initial application. Upon reflection, while we feel this practice is actually quite common in industry today with online applications, it probably isn’t what we want to do if it creates such a negative perception with some individuals. As such we will be taking a look at better ways to respond to online applicants for jobs posted in the future.