onally by a company he had applied to wanted to seek a consensus on basic etiquette in the job market– or lack thereof.
However, he never received a call, and when he followed up by sending a message after an hour to ask whether the call would still push through, the company ghosted him, not bothering to send even one reply. He went on to ask if ghosting is a common practice nowadays and whether companies no longer practice basic courtesy and etiquette in today’s hiring market.
Another wrote that, unfortunately, ghosting is common these days but added that the behavior from the firm “says more about the recruiter/company than you.” A Reddit user chimed in with a reminder that ghosting is not personal and happens to both applicants and recruiters."Has basic courtesy and etiquette been thrown out of the window?" SG job seeker shares HR arranged a phone interview with her but never followed through
A Reddit user opined that “the role of an HR person is to ‘pierce through’ the corporate veil, and to empathize that it is a fellow human being at the other end,” but many fail to do this.