That’s swell, but…during the the Big Recession, so many companies abused this blacklisting retaliation that it no longer means anything. Employees are just using their side of ‘Employment at Will’.
It’s an interesting change in the world. When I was young, I considered myself a super-achiever in that I found 10 possible positions, got an interview with a few (and heard nothing from the others), and got an offer.
My son, on the other hand, did about the same amount of job search work to apply for probably 200-300 possible positions, got an interview with 2, and got an offer.
Even given the similar results, I’d take the my experience in a heartbeat. I don’t think I’d have been able to handle two or three hundred rejections. My son was down too, until I happened to meet someone who’s job involved finding jobs for people fresh out of college. She told me that in her experience, for the average non-super-star student, it took about 400-500 applications.
At least according to her, the old “painfully research each company” technique worked even better than before, but only for the 20% of companies that hadn’t switched completely to online posting, and you could spend a lot of time only to be find out it was all on-line anyway.
So, the amount of investment on either side of the equation has probably dropped by one, and perhaps two orders of magnitude. It’s why I forgive companies for not answering back - I don’t answer head-hunters back either.
Once the investment has progressed to an interview, I think it reflects rather badly on either party to ghost the other.
But let’s not blame other’s bad behaviour for our own. If I don’t like a behaviour, it behooves me not to practice it myself. (Well, that and fear of my mother’s reaction to telling her that someone else’s bad behaviour justified my own…)
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