Ever met an HR person that actually proved useful?
Me neither.
There was an infographic posted early about Disney. Vice is owned by them. SO, just throw this away. Its useless and pointless.
Ghosting has been the common practice for over 20 years. Nothing new. Nothing respectable about it, but it is not a recent thing.
In the higher levels of US corporations we jr suite executives have to recruit and keep HR on track to fill technical management positions in a timely manner. The security firms are at 4+ weeks for their checks, we have dropped the drug tests, dropped the reference requirements. The government agencies, the state of IL, to hire in the field went as high as 36 weeks to get a candidate with 2 prior jobs in the past 3 decades through. The only reason the candidate was available is because we used a outside contractor firm to keep him paid until the FTE hire date was hit.
My Finance job takes 12+ weeks from first interview to issuing a door entry badge and a laptop. Having complete access credentials across all the systems is a 24 week affair.
A good 60% of accepted candidates have already started working someplace else at week 6. At week 12 we most likely are hiring a good number of remote employees we suspect that are contractors in one time zone and full time employees in another time zone.
Our attention to detail is shown in the quality of the new hires work. Overall the private system is looking like 1973 britian government, lots of snooty administrators and few people showing up for the work that must get done.
I dont know what kind of work you were involved in so maybe this has no bearing on the conversation but I do know that some articles giving advice to job seekers actually suggest that. Well, not total slobs but, they tell you that unless you are going in for a management/white collar job that you shouldnt dress well because the person doing the hiring will assume that you are a dainty and not willing to actually do any real work.
Nowadays you have to tell an HR person that you’re anything but white, you’re young, you’re woke and you’re gay....that’ll get you a job at lightspeed
I just say I’m trans and threaten to sue. Works every time. And I don’t look half bad in pink, as it happens.
BTW if you are ignored by HR you do not want to work for that company.
And you do not want to "catch and keep" HR's attention.
Not unless you LIKE being sexually harassed.
Social media profile. Yuck.
When was this written. It’s totally a sellers market in the labor force right now. More jobs are open, and going unfilled. My company has made several offers to applicants who don’t even give you the courtesy of a ‘no’ answer. So who is ‘ghosting’ who?
What I learned over decades was to network with people. That way, when your resume arrives at a company, you have a friend there to vouch for you, and pull your resume out of the pile.
Generally, I stand up, lean over the desk, glower at the interviewer, and say "I want this job so much you will have to call security to get me out."
Never fails!
Self identify as a top victim group member and sue their asses off.
In 1979 as a senior I interviewed with Boeing, Seattle on campus for an engineering job. Hadn’t heard from them in over 6 weeks, neither had any of my friends who interviewed, either.
I wrote their HR a letter and told them it was rude and inconsiderate to not only not reply to me one way or the other but also to the others that interviewed. I told them I was going to advise the campus career center so they could make any decision they might think appropriate with regard to on-campus interviews in future.
About 10 days later I got an offer in the mail from them. And I ghosted THEM.
A Millennial Job Interview - from 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c
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