Had an amazing interview, the recruiter was gushing, and then... radio silence. It's the worst kind of letdown. Anyone else dealing with interview ghosting lately?

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I'm thankful I found the position I'm currently in over a year ago, but I totally get it! I was looking for the right position for a year as well, and there was so much ghosting! I'd have fantastic interviews sometimes and then crickets. Even went through 7 interviews at one company just to hear silence. It's not even hard to send a quick email saying they went with someone else. I lose respect for companies that ghost.

Keep it up. Something great will come your way!

I have experienced the same thing the past few years. I had a phone interview scheduled for this past Thursday and they did not call. Definitely ghosting is much more common now. I see it as a lack of respect. It takes less than a minute to write an email.

I had an in-house recruiter from a company, call me *unsolicited* on a Thursday with an amazing sounding opportunity. He found me on LinkedIn and thought I’d be a good. After some conversation he was very excited and said he wanted to get me in front of the executive and interview panel ASAP, but needed to confirm their availability early the next week. I didn’t hear back and followed up on LinkedIn. He ignored my messages, wouldn’t return my calls and left me hanging. The most annoying part was that he was the one who reached out to me. Like the other comments on the topic, it’s not that hard to just give a simple response and say “as it turns out we’re going a different direction - apologies for wasting your time…“.  I don’t care if I applied and I never get a response. No response is a response in a way. But if you have reached out to me and we have had engagement, it doesn’t take much to have a cut/paste response ready for those people that you don’t move forward with, and if it’s a matter of volume, if they learn how to use outlook, they could do a canned response, email via mail merge from the spreadsheet, where they track who their interviewing and moving forward with and who they’re not.

I can’t help but feel like this is just one more aspect of the world racing Downward toward mediocrity. There’s no integrity or quality in so many aspects of the world we live in today. It’s really sad for those of us who remember when it wasn’t so bad. It’s even sadder for those who don’t know any different.

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