Am mulling over a situation that has happened a couple of times recently to my husband, and not sure what to make of it.
He’s in a reasonably senior position for tech company, runs a department of 25-40 people, fast moving/innovative projects etc. He’s been at company for about 5 years and thinking of pastures new. He gets messaged by internal recruiters via LinkedIn ‘to chat’ about potential position somewhere, usually for very large organisations. Often says that the conversation goes well, and they will usually say that they’ll be in touch (sometimes with a specific day), or that will fix them up to speak with person X,Y etc. He is fully aware that these are often preliminary chats (although sometimes have been 2nd/3rd round convos, where the senior person has said HR will be in touch next week etc), and then nothing. If he contacts them a week later to ask, no reply. It’s a different scenario to the job application without feedback. He’s not even really after feedback, although would be preferable, just whether the process is progressing or they’ve found someone else etc.
He laughs that it’s total bullshit, all these companies talking about their values, but then ghosting people that they’ve often headhunted and spent half an hour or more talking to. He often says he wouldn’t want to work for orgs that think this was ok. But it’s happened a couple of times this year, and didn’t used to happen. Is this now a thing, is it him, not sure what to think?