Candidates ghosting potential employers

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Anonymous wrote:If your pay and benefits were truly above industry standard then you wojld have no
issues filling the job.

Yep, I never heard of Google not being able to find people to fill their positions.

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Anonymous wrote:Candidates are now treating employers the way most employers treat candidates.

Karma.

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There is a lack of trust and it's unfortunate.

This. Does your company send rejection letters to all rejected applicants?

If we bring them in for an interview and don't move forward with them, yes.

But you don't otherwise. So you are ghosting most people.

I suppose. I think that's totally different than ghosting a job offer though.

Its incredibly rude not to send a rejection letter to every job applicant you don't interview.

Maybe you should read an etiquette book.

You are dreaming. When your small business receives 300+ applications through Indeed, and 85% don't meet the requirements in your job posting, and clearly haven't even read your job posting but just clicked "submit," we are not responding to each

Colleges get thousands of applications (sometimes tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand for Ivies) from students, the vast majority of whom aren't qualified. In fact that's how the "top top" schools make themselves look so selective through "attract to reject" strategies by sending B average and up students info encouraging them to apply. They do reply to all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:

There is a lack of trust and it's unfortunate.

This. Does your company send rejection letters to all rejected applicants?

If we bring them in for an interview and don't move forward with them, yes.

But you don't otherwise. So you are ghosting most people.

Bingo. There is so much effort to put together an application and companies don't even have the courtesy to tell you that you didn't make the cut.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

There is a lack of trust and it's unfortunate.

This. Does your company send rejection letters to all rejected applicants?

If we bring them in for an interview and don't move forward with them, yes.

But you don't otherwise. So you are ghosting most people.

Bingo. There is so much effort to put together an application and companies don't even have the courtesy to tell you that you didn't make the cut.

It's mostly a liability issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been trying to hire for a couple months now (junior level) positions and I am shocked at the amount of candidates that have ghosted us. The latest one took a week to reply to a job, then emailed and asked questions about benefits, we responded and then she's completely ghosted us. I even tried to call her and nothing. We've had multiple people apply for roles and then not respond when we try to get them in for an interview. Is anyone else experiencing this?

How about employers ghosting potential employees. Recruiter calls me unsolicited, I agree to a phone call they scheduled. The. They ghosted me and didn't call! Lame

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There is a lack of trust and it's unfortunate.

This. Does your company send rejection letters to all rejected applicants?

If we bring them in for an interview and don't move forward with them, yes.

But you don't otherwise. So you are ghosting most people.

Bingo. There is so much effort to put together an application and companies don't even have the courtesy to tell you that you didn't make the cut.

Yes, they ghost all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I think candidates are getting fed up with employers. If you watch the job boards, you will see a recycling of certain positions. In my experience one isn't sure if this is an actual job or just a way for employers to load their database with resumes to use maybe "one day". After tirelessly applying and talking to recruiters that are "super excited" about your resume and are going to "pass it along to the hiring manager", its frustrating when you are ghosted. Maybe this applicant has been through the same thing and figures "eh, the shoe has been on the other foot, so I will do what has been done to me". Do they sound bitter? Yes, but when you routinely get excited about the possibility of getting hired only to be ghosted, it's hard not to. Maybe this candidate has been burned too many times, and whatever you communicated in the last conversation gave her pause to think maybe this offer isn't what it seems.

I appreciate all of these perspectives. We aren't a corporate machine, so I'd like to think we are different, but I probably do need to stop and remember the slog of job searching especially with the big corporations.

This particular candidate though, came highly recommend by 2 industry colleagues (though she was the one that applied, we didn't reach out to her, the recommendations came after the fact) and we have been very communicative this entire time. The process dragged out longer than expected (weather and sickness) and I updated her along the way so she didn't think we were ghosting her. There seemed to be good back and forth, so I'm just surprised it's gone down the way it has. If she has another, better offer on the table, I just wish she would tell me. Or if she was unhappy with something in the offer, tell me. With us being a small business, we do have a bit more flexibility on salary and benefits, because we don't have some corporate machine telling us no. Plus it caused us to be in limbo land for a couple weeks, losing precious time. We are a smaller industry in a mid sized city (not DC) and this is just a really short sighted approach. People will eventually find out if you conduct yourself this way.

I dont think she has a better offer right now but expects one soon and is dragging it out to see.

[Anonymous]

We are experiencing a similar situation as we build out a business focused on a category-killing new product that flips the script on a well-known commodity product in a fun new way (t-shirts-meet-shorts) and separately getting in on the women’s headwrap evolution/revolution.

In lieu of outdated pay arrangements we are offering generous equity positions in the business and so far have been ghosted by seven candidates, except one and that person is seeking to live in our storage facility. Disappointing.