Everything went well in the interview,your resume sings but at the end you didnt get the job !

It is a painful conundrum of the job search process: Rejected candidates want to understand why they didn't get hired, but employers, fearing discrimination complaints, keep silent. And those who do speak up offer little more than platitudes.

Without specifics, candidates are left to repeat the same mistakes, while hiring managers complain they're swamped with applicants who miss the mark.

"You don't know how to adjust going forward," says technology professional Lisa Roberson. When she wasn't selected for a job in her field a few years ago, she emailed one of the people who had interviewed her to find out why.

The response: Someone "more suited" to the job had been hired. "Well, I could have guessed that," said Ms. Roberson, who works in health-care IT.

Such exchanges frustrate job seekers, especially those who have been searching for long periods and desperately want some insight into how they are viewed by hiring managers.

Providge Consulting, a Delaware-based consulting firm, has a policy to keep candidates apprised at every step of its hiring process and scores candidates on a range of criteria to keep its decisions as objective as possible.

But when the reasons for a rejection can't be boiled down to more clear-cut measures like experience or education, HR managers "attempt to minimize those conversations," said Tara Teaford, director of operations. That may mean offering a vague response, adding that the company will reach out if appropriate positions arise in the future.

"Most of it is trying to protect ourselves from potential litigation," says Ms. Teaford. "Once you cross the line between objective and subjective, it gets very, very challenging."

And many of the firms that want to provide feedback have their hands tied by company lawyers.

Employers were put on notice in late 2012 when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionidentified discrimination in hiring practices as one of its priorities for the next three years, partly out of a recognition that few job seekers have the resources to hire a lawyer and press their claims through civil courts,

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