Ghosting
The most common failure in recruitment is also the cheapest to fix. One email closes it. That email is still not sent, and the reason is not politeness or volume.
#no-reply
8 stories
Four days of silence after a four-hour task
A cold approach on LinkedIn, a four-hour task for one company and a two-hour task for another, the final stages of both — and then one of them stopped replying, and the days started being counted.
Six interviews, then nothing
A recruiter, a CMO, and four more executives. Then no rejection, no update, nothing a person could use to close the loop.
120 applications, 8% callback
Six months, a hundred and twenty applications, and no reply at all to nearly half of them.
Three quarters, no human in the loop
Sixty applications over five months. Thirty-three were closed before anyone met her — and she was the one who had to work that out.
They rejected her, then posted her video
The assessment asked for an original video shot in-store. She was rejected on the first of May. Then she saw it on the company's own account.
Four rounds, five weeks, silence
Every stage professional, every signal positive. Then nothing.
Ten hours for a four-hour task, then nothing
Told it would take about four hours. It took ten, across two days. Then two weeks of the silence they'd asked him to wait through — and more after that.