I’ve been hiring for almost 15 years and this is bonkers. For the last few years more and more people aren’t showing up to interviews they signed up for. It was super rare 10 years ago, and now its about 50% of applicants for us. No call or text saying they’re not coming, just not showing up. It’s so bizarre how fast this happened. Was it the pandemic? Its a pain for us as we have managers bending their schedule for these meetings and then people don’t show. I don’t get it.
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During the pandemic I thought it was because they were getting more money by not working. Now I’m not sure why.
It was happening before the pandemic. My theory: you need to line up so many interviews a week to continue to receive unemployment benefits. Doesn’t say you need to go through with them.
Yep, and I write down all those names, and when they inevitably apply again, I send a pretty snarky email saying I would love to interview them, but I can’t waste my time again.
It’s a dick move.
However:
Now you know what it feels like being ghosted by literally every other company one applies to for a job.
Not saying your company is like that. Not clear to me, if it is your own company, or just have been working there for 15 years. Either way, you sound like you have had stability in your life for a decade and a half now.
Shit seriously changed “out here” on the wrong end of the job market. People applying for a position have likely applied to and have been rejected from tens, hundreds of jobs. Yes, hundreds. They are stressed, they are angry, and they f#$king hate your guts at this point. Nothing personal to YOU specifically, but the process is grinding up the soul.
Those not showing probably got another job, and they don’t care enough about you to give you a heads up. Again, a dick move, but it likely happened to them at least 10 times already, so they don’t give a damn. What you need to understand, is HR is ghosting WAY MORE applicants, than the other way around.
What kind of level of hiring? Is it for the kinds of jobs which absolutely need multiple managers present for the first interview? I’ve had plenty in the past where the first interview is very short and just with one person, quite possibly because they were checking whether applicants would, indeed, show up.
What’s the current labor pool for these types of jobs in your area, and are your competitors also seeing problems hiring people for such positions? Do you offer things that the competitors don’t, and which actual applicants or people working those jobs have said they’d look for? (Rather than making the assumption that some specific benefit would attract them.)
It unfortunately has made me lower my expectations on candidate attendance to the point I schedule them closer together and slightly overlapping at times to make sure the hours I set aside for interviews are allocated efficiently
It’s the ease at which they can apply for jobs. Just push a couple button on a keyboard and apply to 10 jobs at once without doing anything.