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.

  • msawrlz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.