"You send applications off into the void, maybe get an acknowledgement that it was even received, and then if you're lucky and your resume somehow makes it past the AI screening because it stood out among the hundreds of others that the company received, you get called for an interview. But even that human interaction doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be treated like an actual human afterwards-it seems that getting ghosted is sadly the rule these days, not the exception."
"She even gave me her direct phone number and said she would have an answer the following week. She seemed to like all my answers to her questions. We also bonded over the fact her mom has dementia and I told her my grandmother had Alzheimer's. I wound up receiving another job offer. So over a week went by I called and left her a message. I never heard back."
An applicant had a promising interview in which the manager shared her direct phone number, bonded over family dementia, and promised an answer the following week. The applicant later received another job offer, contacted the manager and HR for a decision, and received no responses, ultimately accepting the other job and feeling ghosted and offended by the lack of professionalism. Modern job searching often involves mass applications and AI screening that can still lead to human interactions ending in no follow-up. Ghosting by recruiters is common, rude, painful, and bewildering, leaving candidates feeling invalidated.
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