Okay is this a rejection(pfo) or what?

Stark

Got this letter from a company(not sure if it's okay to mention names) in response to a job application a few weeks back:

Thank you for completing your application for the graduate programme at xxxxx

We have already received sufficient applications in relation to the number of
opportunities we currently have. However, please complete the on-line tests and if
you are successful, we will keep your application on hold until further
opportunities arise.

Thank you for your interest in xxxxx

Yet they're sending out e-mails to students of a different course(business information systems) looking for more applicants. Also I completed those online tests along with the job application weeks back. Can people familiar with the bitter cynical ways of the world translate this from recruitment speak to English for me? Have they even looked at my application form? I'm doing computer science btw, could it be that they looked at my course and said "no way, we want bis students because the prospectus says they're brilliant(roll the word off your tongue as you say it), let's fob this one off"

I e-mailed them back saying I'd already completed the online tests and got a prompt reply saying "then you need do no more". Then I e-mailed them back to confirm if I was being rejected and got the sound of tumbleweeds.

Beruthiel

to answer your question stark

I would take it that you have been rejected and that they are keeping your details on file, incase another position comes up

bummer

BuffyBot

Fraid it looks like a PFO to me

SantaHoe

Ok I've highlighted the key elements to any PFO letter... I'm convinced there's a standard PFO template out there in HR land with just a load of empty spaces that you fill in between the bold'ed words.

the pfo letter wrote:

Thank you for completing your application for the graduate programme at xxxxx

We have already received sufficient applications in relation to the number of opportunities we currently have. However, please complete the on-line tests and if you are successful, we will keep your application on hold until further opportunities arise.

Thank you for your interest in xxxxx

Victor

Sounds awfully like a recruitment company trawling for CVs to say to clients "we have X thousand people available if you are interested".

And the CIA files of course.

Hagar

That letter and a Euro will get you a can of Coke.