Dear HRs - Answer Me.

Profession dominated by women - typical passive agressive behaviour. Avoidance

The main reason why anyone would ghost is people can’t take rejection. I am a recruiter and would be upfront if someone is rejected post an interview but have come across multiple folks who just couldn’t take a no.

I'm not HR but I did try recruiting for my own startup.

Problem is there's too many profiles applying for roles, and just hiring the right candidate takes up a lot of time. Rejection emails are unfortunately not a priority especially if the first screening itself removes the majority of candidates from pool of applicants. Unless someone uses good ATS and other systems that take care of emails at every step, it's not really worth spending time and money on for a small business.

If someone reaches out though, we do tell them if/why they were rejected. Then again, that's us as a small biz.

In my previous companies, the management will ask to do interviews mostly from competitor company or similar just to understand how they are doing, their numbers, data etc..

I’ve had this issue two fancy recruiters reached out unsolicited took my number/email and ghosted me. I’m quite pissed honestly because they took my personal information.

I recently had word with some startup completed assignment took a week got shortlisted for interview and interview went like top notch, even interviewer was so happy. To my surprise I got rejection mail from HR, can anyone tell is it bcs I had 8months gap in my resume

One of my seniors' is HR, she told me they sometimes intentionally and unintentionally ghost candidates. Depends on the situation.

1.Sometime hiring managers don’t waste much time on a detailed feedback for a rejected candidate.
2.Sometimes they will hold a candidate and ask the HR to line up few more candidates to evaluate before making a decision.
3. Recruiters are the middle men - most often they Wouk only be able to send a standard rejection email once the loop is closed for the candidate because personalised feedback is never done by any large scale companies - read legal/PR headache which inevitably happens because everyone cannot digest rejection.
4. Sheer volume of applications that you get on this side is crazy.

But a good HR will be open and let the candidate know that either a. It’s under process. b. Doesn’t look like you made it. C. It’s on hold.

I got ghosted 14times but no reply: common atleast don't give me hope too