The way each advert is
designed should tell you a lot about an organization; the image it wants to
project and the details it may not want to expose to the general public. Thus
there are limits to the details of a position advertised may reveal. For
example it may be ambitious to want to be told how a vacancy arose when you
have been short-listed for interviews or worse, when you haven’t even expressed
interest in the position.
Some candidates take
advantage of their enquiries to indirectly bond with recruiters. They use the
opportunity to demonstrate enthusiasm for the position and give hints about
their knowledge or even the peculiarity of their background. An enquiry of this
kind of may portray you as playing unfairly against other candidates who may
not have the opportunity to make such calls. In other words, it is as good as
canvassing. You risk disqualification. Some enquiries could
suggest you are neither brilliant nor forward thinking.
