I' ve become what I hate.  That HR person that responds auto-generated emails and delivers manufactured answers that keep candidates balanced between hope and rejection.  I hate myself for everyday.  When I started, I had the attitude of an avenager for those seeking a jobs. I was going to be different and I was at first. You would have loved me.   I took it as an opportunity to wow candidates by showing I was different. I worked and depending on my day it still applies. However, it' s true. HR people suck.  Being at the bottom, work is dumped on me.  I am the middleman.  After many valliant efforts of trying to sale great people to the folks in charge of staffing and having my judgement rejected, I lost my job seeker activist fire.  After being reprimanded for giving too much hope in my efforts, I am now an HR Ass' t zombie.  I hate myself everday. I hate HR.  I can' t do this any more. In a world where people are putting their lives on the lines for people they' ll never meet, there is something wrong  with sitting in a friggin cube all day sending cookie cutter emails to people  who like me hate their job or even worse people really needed a job.  My emails are all the same yet I get responses of anticipation from people thinking they might be hired. Being a pion, I there is nothing I can do. I' d honestly rather be painting signs or something. 

Do find dignity in the fact that I still follow-through with my word with every applicant. Also, and will love this, if I get a report that a recruiter failed to follow-up with a applicant, expecially after an interview.  I spotlight it and report all the way up to the top. Recruiters could lose their jobs over that.  I' m still throwing in the towel.