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'...candidates — scarred from years of applying for jobs, spending hours preparing for interviews, only to get form rejections back — may not be to blame for go
by olivermarks 8y ago
'...candidates — scarred from years of applying for jobs, spending hours preparing for interviews, only to get form rejections back — may not be to blame for going cold, said Peter Cappelli, a management professor and director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. “I think they have learned it from the employers,” he said. “Employers were notorious for never getting back to people, and only letting them know what was going on if it turned out they wanted them to go to the next step.
He added: “The employers have been far worse about this than any of the job seekers.”
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I wonder if that is the root cause? It seems possible this is another example of internet era behavioral changes, where people are far more casual about applying for jobs and have less respect for formal perceptions of job application than in the past...
As a people manager this only happened to me once, when an engineer was a no show. It was quite a shocker after all the effort that went into bringing them into the big corp I was at back then...
- zzzcpan 8y agoPeople are more casual about applying for jobs because they get treated this way by employers. Playing on a job market they learn from them that this is an acceptable behavior. But why are employers ghosting candidates so much lately? Are there too many people on the market to choose from and they just can't answer? Or maybe they learn this from some large trend-setting corporation that secretly wants to put down candidates to make them more corporate drony, but publicly justifies such policy as legal risk or something. I have a feeling this is where it starts.
- ropeadopepope 8y agoThere's this perception in the corporate world that telling a candidate why they were rejected opens up the company to a potential lawsuit. I have no idea if there's any truth to that statement or if it's just a convenient excuse that gets repeated.
- mattkrause 8y agoI would happily sign a waiver for some feedback. That said, I would bet that a lot of decisions, especially among "finalists" are essentially random (who seems smarter/better put together/whatever). You're not going to get someone saying "well, you took 10.3 minutes to sketch out a solution to our first problem, which was too long. We would have hired you if you finished in under 9 and half minutes though."
- detaro 8y agoTelling them that they were rejected would be a start in some cases...
- phyzome 8y agoIt's too bad there's no way to efficiently track candidates in some sort of "data store" and then send them all "automated messages" when someone else has been selected for the job.