Hiring Managers are Finally Getting Their Comeuppance
This is a Good Thing
“Job candidates now are out of control,” a friend recently complained. “They don’t return calls or show up for interviews. They completely ghost you. It’s ridiculous.”
She’s trying to hire a handful of entry-level manufacturing positions. Of her ten qualified applicants, five never responded to calls and three more didn’t bother showing up to the interview.
She’s not alone. Managers across a wide range of fields are complaining about job applicants’ poor behaviors. They’re seeing workers ghost them for interviews and simply not show up for work. Job applicants are acting entitled, unprofessional, and self-centered. They’re unresponsive, noncommittal, and don’t appreciate people’s time. So in short… they’re acting exactly as hiring managers have for the past twenty years.
A Fitting Comeuppance
If you’ve ever looked for a job, you know it’s no picnic. Put bluntly, the process sucks.
You spend an inordinate amount of time putting together your resume and scrolling through job descriptions. Then, when you’re ready to apply, you go through the joy of cutting and pasting your resume information into an incredibly complex form on their website. It’s almost as though someone designed these…
