#Recruiting #JobSearch #CommunicationSkills
Hey guys, have you ever been ghosted by a recruiter after they hyped you up during the initial call? 🤷♂️ It just happened to me and I’m left scratching my head wondering why.
I mean, why tell me I’m a perfect match for the role and promise to follow up with next steps, only to disappear into thin air?! It’s frustrating, to say the least. 🤦♀️
Do you think recruiters should just be upfront about not moving forward with a candidate instead of stringing them along? Let’s discuss in the comments below!
Possible Solution:
– Providing feedback to candidates on why they weren’t chosen
– Setting clear expectations on the follow-up process
– Establishing regular communication throughout the hiring process
Let’s empower each other with knowledge and insights! ✨ #RecruitmentTips #InterviewEtiquette #Transparency
They’re collecting and selling your information. There is no job.
Are you talking about third-party recruiters, like from recruiting companies? I don’t know, but this exact thing has happened to me with every single recruiter I’ve spoken with in the last 6 months. I was starting to suspect I’d been blacklisted somehow.
We have to reach out to usually 50 people to get 1 response, but sometimes a lot respond. It’s not that they’re all trying to ghost you, personally. It’s a pipeline of candidates to work through and some people respond back immediately with a resume, email contact and then there doesn’t have to be back and forth, which allow other people to respond faster, and get them scheduled.
If I don’t get a response back from a recruiter, as a recruiter, I know I wasn’t the first 3-5 people to respond back and they’ve already got interviews scheduled. It sucks and as an unemployed person in this hellscape job market, I totally understand your frustrations. It’s brutal out there.
Recruiting is Sales
They’re very nice to everyone on a screener no matter what. Why weed out someone, that’s not their job that’s the hiring manager’s
Then they tell you they’ll get back to you. But it’s really not their decision when, if at all, anyone gets back to you. I’ve had a few cases where I told the recruiter the result. Often they’re totally focused on intake, not anything after. I’ve also had recruiters ask me to keep them updated via texts, bc they’re not invited either.
There are excellent but basically, being nice in the beginning is part of their job (so don’t be fooled by it) and being courteous after is not part of their job, so don’t expect it or take offense by it
Because you ARE aspirationally perfect to them, but they’re some rando HR person who doesn’t know anything. Then they find out from the HM who actually knows things that you aren’t perfect, and they ghost you because they are selfish.
Seems pretty straightforward to me 🤷🏽♂️.
To keep you on the hook until they make the decision.
They probably think that but the HM doesn’t.
You probably are a very good candidate, but maybe the hiring manager is an idiot. Recruiters aren’t dumb, or trying to mislead you in my experience. I tend to believe them when they talk about passing my info onto the hiring manager, but keep in mind a lot of people pass this step. I’ve commented this before here, but I also believe that hiring managers filter out a lot of good candidates that they are as too good (won’t stick around under their crappy management) or too expensive (hiring managers care more about budget than recruiters).
The candidate funnel narrows over time. They hook several possiblities and then whittle them down, so of course they’re going to blow smoke at first–to get you hooked. Once they narrow the field, they drop some options. Until someone better comes along, they still want you as a possibility.
I console myself by thinking of it as dating. You go out with several people and only keep seeing the ones you really like. That goes both for them and for you. If at any point you get the sense that the job will suck, you divert your energy elsewhere.
Marketing FInesse!!! people keeps falling for it tho.. lol
Recruiters also get ghosted. I’ve seen third parties submit without having permission to fill the position, and I’ve seen managers at companies I worked at drag their feet and decide to cancel positions.
>Why not just tell me I’m not the right fit instead of leading me on and ghosting me?!
1. Because most people absolutely loathe confrontation or even the risk of confrontation.
2. If they’re commission-based, they’re not going to spend any more time on you after finding the right fit.