'...candidates — scarred from years of applying for jobs, spending hours preparing for interviews, only to get form rejections back — may not be to blame for going cold, said Peter Cappelli, a management professor and director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. “I think they have learned it from the employers,” he said. “Employers were notorious for never getting back to people, and only letting them know what was going on if it turned out they wanted them to go to the next step.
He added: “The employers have been far worse about this than any of the job seekers.”
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I wonder if that is the root cause? It seems possible this is another example of internet era behavioral changes, where people are far more casual about applying for jobs and have less respect for formal perceptions of job application than in the past...
As a people manager this only happened to me once, when an engineer was a no show. It was quite a shocker after all the effort that went into bringing them into the big corp I was at back then...
~ I wonder if that is the root cause? It seems possible this is another example of internet era behavioral changes, where people are far more casual about applying for jobs and have less respect for formal perceptions of job application than in the past...
As a people manager this only happened to me once, when an engineer was a no show. It was quite a shocker after all the effort that went into bringing them into the big corp I was at back then...