Why do recruiters take so long to reject applicants, leaving them in limbo for weeks? Are you tired of waiting for a job decision after investing time and effort in interviews? How can I cope with the frustration of not hearing back from potential employers? Discover tips for job seekers struggling with long waiting periods and uncertain outcomes, especially new graduates like me. Explore the madness of job hunting, feeling hopeless, and balancing multiple part-time jobs to survive. Join the discussion to share experiences and support each other in navigating the job market. #jobsearch #recruitment #jobhunting #newgraduates #jobinterviews #jobrejection
Waited? But don’t you know after a week?
I think it’s cowardice. It’s tough to give someone bad news, easier to let calls roll to vm
Most of the recruiting positions are populated by Gen Z, who are abjectly afraid of delivering bad news.
Gotta love it right… same here. Bachelor’s in engineering with 7+ years experience, can’t even get a job with my first jobs salary right now. Absolute bullshit.
They might be keeping you as a 2nd option.
Happened to me probably at least 5 times, even now I was in 3 final rounds. 2 of them are delaying an answer for weeks like 4. The 3rd said they’ll have an answer in days, let’s see.
You are not alone in this, I can understand how it feels. I was prepared and waited for 2 momths but today I got to know that they moved forward with a VP level candidate where they required someone in mid senior level position as per their job posting. I mean seriously!
All the time they were like we are still ” evaluating other candidates ” ! … I am just heartbroken
*whisper*”go away!”
“You’re failure might infect me!”
(/S)
Everyone is looking for a perfect candidate, and stringing the other candidates along just in case they need them. There might be a number of nonexistent jobs for collecting resumes as well
sometimes decisions take time.
They’re just doing what they need to do to appease their boss because they know they’re next on the chopping block
I feel your pain and you are 💯 right. I can’t imagine how much worse this will be in a few years when the people behaving this badly aren’t people at all 😫🤖🤖😣
TL:DR You’re strung along because recruitment has been Tinderfied. The candidate is no longer an asset whose price is being discovered by the hiring process, they’re a risk-shifting vehicle.
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To people who keep saying it’s fear, no it isn’t, considering you’re dealing with people who think Wolf of Wall Street is an inspirational film rather than a critique.
Recruiters string you along because of the Tinder syndrome ie the gluttony of excess in an information harvesting economy. It leads to the thinking that they (recruiter or hiring manager) deserve more than they’re bringing to the other side in a fundamentally one-sided relationship. And so they can not only afford, but are incentivezed, to be as maximally disingenuous to candidate needs as their time allows.
So, because there is always assumed to be a better candidate in their harem of CVs, you’re strung along as their insurance choice or as leverage for the recruiter’s KPIs.
The recruiter has no interest in getting you into a job, unless they’ve given the hiring manager a candidate they (both hirer and recruiter) have done as little as possible to earn; and the candidate has simped so much into the process, they’re both assured of his or her supine exploitability for years rather than months.
Summary: you’d think it’s flattering and they’re agonising over you when this happens. It’s the opposite of flattering, in that they took on many similar candidates and told them all the same thing: “please be patient until my priorities change”.
The Tinderfication and gameshow dynamics of recruiting has to be among the most important economic process whose externalities are so expensive/wasteful, that it’s ripe for disruption, because I don’t think the model is working for anyone.
It’s got to be up there with childcare and housing as a solvable hindrance that only survives because nobody wants to bear their share of the risk and so push onto others. Capitalism will break if this isn’t addressed — I don’t mean that as an exaggeration there is historical precedent.
That system works when risk is distributed across transactions roughly in keeping with the fair value of the good. Right now increasingly risk IS the product which isn’t how it’s meant to work.
That is uniquely possible in our age because we have a glut of information, and duplicative systems for communicating that information, which means we can signal value (‘real’ or superficial), but can’t reliably perform value authentication, or cheaply assess counterparty good faith anymore. It’s like when foxes raid a henhouse and kill in excess of their need — patterned behaviour becomes impossible and ultimately undesirable.
Conclusion. I’m going to say this again for emphasis: being dragged on and on isn’t flattery, it’s a sure sign that somewhere in the process, people are fighting tooth and nail about how to lowball you and transfer the value to themselves. I’d go so far as to doubt there is a job market crisis at all. There is a recruiting crisis and that’s not the same thing.
I work in recruiting ops it almost always falls into three camps if you’re not hearing back
1. The hiring manager can’t make a decision, and the recruiter is forced to keep you in limbo until they do.
2. The recruiter is bad a their job or cannot manage their work load, I’ve worked with some bad recruiters I’ve had to remind numerous times to clean up their pipelines.
3. The role itself is being questioned from a budget standpoint or even a leveling one so everyone is on hold until decision is made
As someone who couldn’t find a job after college in my field start looking into doing something else like sales or something. At least you’ll make more
They aren’t really hiring…just interviewing.