Direct Email Interview Invitations???

[Jamezuva]

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I was just curious what the rationale is behind a program sending an interview invitation to you via email directly rather than through ERAS. Anyone know the answer? 😕

 

[Blade28]

No idea. Everything I've gotten via email has also been duplicated in ERAS.

 

[Jaded Soul]

I was just curious what the rationale is behind a program sending an interview invitation to you via email directly rather than through ERAS. Anyone know the answer? 😕

Because not everyone is obsessive-compuslive about checking ERAS every day, let alone every 5 minutes like people on here are. Nor should they have to be.

 

[BellKicker]

Less than half of my interview invitations have duplicates sent to ERAS. I've actually stopped looking at those messages.

Yesterday, a program sent an invitation by regular mail, which I thought was pretty cool.

 

[GeneGoddess]

I've received five invites so far, and four were sent to me with a copy going to ERAS and one was sent to me directly. I never check ERAS (well, maybe 2-3x/wk).

 

[Jamezuva]

i think a couple of you are misunderstanding what i mean by "direct" emails. What I mean is that the program sends you an email without *any* message appearing in the ERAS postbox. So, for example, if you have a very agressive spam filter and your email invitation gets rerouted, you will never realize you got the invitation since ERAS doesn't have any record of it

 

[GeneGoddess]

i think a couple of you are misunderstanding what i mean by "direct" emails. What I mean is that the program sends you an email without *any* message appearing in the ERAS postbox. So, for example, if you have a very agressive spam filter and your email invitation gets rerouted, you will never realize you got the invitation since ERAS doesn't have any record of it

I got your meaning. One of my programs sent something to me directly (there is no record of it in ERAS). I did think about the spam filter, but I used my school address and I've never "lost" a message before. Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail is a different ballgame...