Comment by orphereus
3 days ago
My anegdotal experience in EU is that ghosting AFTER the company responds to your application is very, very rare.
I would always get the usual "Unfortunately, we have decided..." charades. At least no ghosting.
I can think of only one situation, and it was kinda peculiar in its own right (they called me 8 months after my application because they were in a jam and I said I won't be able to start in such a short notice they wanted, and they warned me in advance they would ghost me because the HR was I presume in a crunch).
As for the ghostings BEFORE they even respond to the job application, I'd say that it is around 40% of job applications that I never get a response after "We have received your job application yada yada yada".
Again, this is just my anegdotal experience. Maybe my experience in EU job market is a rarity.
My experience in France was that almost everyone ghosts you, including after three rounds of interviews.
It's probably because they don't want to be liable for giving a reason.
Well, then they might just respond: Thank you, but no thank you… No liability, but at least they wouldn’t leave the person hanging…
Which should be illegal. You should be able to formulate why you prefer someone.
And it would prevent companies from ghosting people.
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Really no offense, but in all truth, I would probably skip an application with simple misspellings. Anecdotal is what you're looking for.
This comment really has no purpose other than being petulent.
We're talking about being ghosted or rejected for applications and interviews. It actually seems very relevant. Details matter. Don't give anyone a reason to reject you, because there are hundreds (or thousands) of applications who are also qualified and ran spellcheck. I'm really not trying to be a jerk.
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