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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.
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Companies pull all kinds of shenanigans with job boards.  For example, there are laws that many companies fill out LCA's.  Labor Condition Applications, they are just testing the job market.  There is no legitimate job there.  They are just *seeing* what people are willing to do that job for.  Often times they are trying to prove there are no able or willing candidates.  EG they are intentionally engaging in hostile interview tactics unbeknownst to the naive job applicant, making it more difficult to submit an application.  https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/programs/permanent

Companies trying to get a green card will do this repetitiously until no one responds to the listing.

I didn't know about this until the high-profile DOJ v Meta or DOJ v Apple cases where they showed that these companies were intentionally hiding the Native applicants from managers.  I make sure to fill out these applications whenever I can.  They are listed in the Wapo job boards or in Maryland you can do an advanced search for Foreign Labor Applications.  You can also go to the USCIS to look at the PERM data: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

I have found that in some cases where employers treated me particularly poorly.  For example, giving extended take home quizzes, they were actually doing perm searches.  You can report these behviours via the email in at the bottom of the DOJ settlement: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-labor-departments-reach-settlements-facebook-resolving-claims-discrimination-against

The point is it isn't just efficiency or convenience that companies treat you that way.  They are being actively hostile.[/quote]

OP here. I don’t even understand half of what you said. We are just a small business of less than 20 people.[/quote]

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