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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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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.[/quote]

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

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