As someone currently on the job hunt I find it very frustrating to not even receive acknowledgement of your application.
Failing that a polite, "Sod off" would be much appreciated when your not successful as well!
Failing that a polite, "Sod off" would be much appreciated when your not successful as well!
Treat them like they treat you.
You're just a bottleneck in the hiring managers process, so make companies a bottleneck in your job process.
There may be some "holy-grail" of working at FaceGooOrStartup where you can do "work you love", but after a while you realize that all work is balls and you'd much rather not work at all (or run your own shin-dig).
Apply the technique of a "smart" spray and spread your CV gently across a wide-enough net.