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Hiring Managers are Enraged at Trend of Job Seekers "Ghosting" Them

7 points by tekdude 5y ago

WalterGR 5y ago
This is the "strange new trend": "Employers are increasingly grumbling about job seekers 'ghosting' them." OP could consider changing the title of the submission to that...
clouddrover 5y ago
> For years I’ve fielded questions from job seekers frustrated at being ghosted by job interviewers. Then turnabout is fair play.
- moron4hire 5y ago
  The paragraph just before that sentence says just that.
version_five 5y ago
I dont think this title "The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers" is appropriate, it's basically "one weird trick, managers hate him". It must be possible for the title to give some information about what the article is about
- pinewurst 5y ago
  It's classic clickbait - not attempting to be appropriately descriptive.
- tekdude 5y ago
  I know HN has a rule about using the original as-published title, but I've edited the submission to use a tweaked version of the article's alt-title(?) that's shown in the tab bar. Admins can change it back if necessary The original (and vague) submitted title: "The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers"
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  Email HN mods at hn@ycombinator.com. They're quite responsive to such requests, if made when relevant (e.g., not two days after posting). Mods aren't automatically alerted to in-thread whinges or even mentions by name.
themodelplumber 5y ago
This is fascinating. I didn't realize it was this widespread. Our local school district is having a hard time retaining teachers, and one of the principals told a friend that they only have 6 substitutes available for the whole district right now. The substitutes end up getting paid at a higher rate (near double IIRC) because teachers are also setting more boundaries about the prep work they're willing to do for subs. One thing that's really unfortunate about this is that admin staff are filling random teaching roles as opposed to their normal leadership duties. So it's forcing leadership to act in short-sighted ways. This then hurts the students, when a problem that needed leadership-style attention, school-wide, is neglected and results in a less healthy or less safe environment for the students. (I wonder if a similar effect is happening in business, for example with the CEO skipping vital leadership practices because they need to edit copy on the website, etc.)
corinroyal 5y ago
For your sixth interview, we'd like you to write a program on the whiteboard that calculates the first 100 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in Autocoder, then take this online personality survey that will determine whether you're a team player. Wait, where are you going?

7 points by tekdude 5y ago

This is the "strange new trend": "Employers are increasingly grumbling about job seekers 'ghosting' them." OP could consider changing the title of the submission to that...

clouddrover 5y ago

> For years I’ve fielded questions from job seekers frustrated at being ghosted by job interviewers. Then turnabout is fair play.

moron4hire 5y ago
The paragraph just before that sentence says just that.

version_five 5y ago

I dont think this title "The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers" is appropriate, it's basically "one weird trick, managers hate him". It must be possible for the title to give some information about what the article is about

pinewurst 5y ago
It's classic clickbait - not attempting to be appropriately descriptive.
tekdude 5y ago
I know HN has a rule about using the original as-published title, but I've edited the submission to use a tweaked version of the article's alt-title(?) that's shown in the tab bar. Admins can change it back if necessary The original (and vague) submitted title: "The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers"
dredmorbius 5y ago
Email HN mods at hn@ycombinator.com. They're quite responsive to such requests, if made when relevant (e.g., not two days after posting). Mods aren't automatically alerted to in-thread whinges or even mentions by name.

themodelplumber 5y ago

This is fascinating. I didn't realize it was this widespread. Our local school district is having a hard time retaining teachers, and one of the principals told a friend that they only have 6 substitutes available for the whole district right now. The substitutes end up getting paid at a higher rate (near double IIRC) because teachers are also setting more boundaries about the prep work they're willing to do for subs. One thing that's really unfortunate about this is that admin staff are filling random teaching roles as opposed to their normal leadership duties. So it's forcing leadership to act in short-sighted ways. This then hurts the students, when a problem that needed leadership-style attention, school-wide, is neglected and results in a less healthy or less safe environment for the students. (I wonder if a similar effect is happening in business, for example with the CEO skipping vital leadership practices because they need to edit copy on the website, etc.)

corinroyal 5y ago

For your sixth interview, we'd like you to write a program on the whiteboard that calculates the first 100 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in Autocoder, then take this online personality survey that will determine whether you're a team player. Wait, where are you going?