Candidates are waiting for feedback while top talent is long gone: ghosting is not an applicant problem, but often self-inflicted. Here are ten things companies can do about it.
The interview is going well, but after a few minutes the applicant interrupts her interviewer, senior recruiter Patrick Lindsley, in the middle of the phone call. “I’m burned out. I can’t do this anymore.” She always waits for weeks for a sign of life from a company she has applied to. If anything, there will be a succinct rejection – without justification. She is tired of writing applications, taking tests, and communicating in vain. And even now, when the candidate is actually well in the running, the frustration is apparently too great: the entire conversation lasts just under a minute, and the candidate abruptly ends the phone call.
