Ghosting Hiring Managers Become Aware of Ghosting

After years of shamelessly ghosting candidates, hiring managers are incredulous that they’re now being ghosted.

But why are they ghosting us? Whatever did we do to deserve this? (Photo by Karolina Grabowska via Pexels)

New hires and job candidates ghosting employers is apparently a new phenomenon in the post-Covid hiring world. One of the top stories on LinkedIn last week was a WSJ piece with the headline:

Hiring Is Hard Enough. Now New Workers Are Vanishing Before They Even Start.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I had to laugh. It seems the tables have finally turned on those employers, recruiters and hiring managers who are notorious for ghosting applicants, even those who partially make it through their multi-tiered interview process.

The article is full of incredulous quotes from those who have been ghosted by new hires and candidates recently.

It’s a lack of professional etiquette!

“Candidates have so many options in this market that typical professional etiquette is being ignored.”

Professional etiquette, you say?

How many applicants did you filter out with an impersonal AI? How many job listings have you kept online after you already hired a candidate? How many job listings did you put online, even…