We’ve heard it said that your job is not your life, but when you’ve been looking for work for months without landing many interviews, let alone offers, it can be devastating. Consider San Diego resident Hannah Pitman. The talent acquisition specialist has been applying to between 75 to 100 jobs every week since last November, and has shared on LinkedIn that while she’s had a handful of interviews, what she’s mostly received is “a lot of radio silence.” Her situation is not unique. Another LinkedIn user, Veronica R. Chiesi Brown, reported that out of the 174 jobs she has applied to, she has scored three interviews, three rejections (2%), 32 (18%) auto-generated rejections and on the rest (80%) she was ghosted. It’s as if these women were sending the applications into black holes. “I am not begging for a job. I just want to be kept on the radar . . . Feeling forgotten has been hard but I am resilient, and I am choosing not to let tough times in the job market get me down,” wrote Pitman. That’s the right attitude, especially when you consider what many aren’t aware of — that for the most part, humans are to blame. This
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Here's why job recruiters ghost you and how to cope – New York Post
