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.
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.)