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.
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