To Disappear Is The Worst Decision

The last several years the labor market of Ukraine is candidate driven and opens good opportunities to them. Professional candidates get a new job within a few weeks; often can chose from several offers, “move” market salaries. To get the best, the employers have to make concessions!

It looks quite easy: you publish your CV on job platforms, create a good professionally looking targeted LinkedIn profile. And then – just answer the phone calls and choose. A very beneficial situation. But it seems to often lead to cases, when a too confident candidate undermines his own brand, poisons his future.

As recruiters, we now see a strange negative trend, which continues to worsen. Candidates just disappear. They do not come to the confirmed from their side interviews. They stop answering phone calls and messages – just in the middle of the recruitment process. We face it rather often, hear the same information from colleagues. Unfortunately, these are not just single cases. The most strange is that this concerns even candidates for rather senior positions.

To choose is sure to be an indisputable right of a candidate. But today there is a variety of means to inform about changing one’s decision or schedule: a phone call, sms, message in one of the many messengers, an e-mail. 10 seconds spent on “I am not interested any more. Thanks.” – and the professional reputation is in place. On the contrary, with a “Did not come to the interview” or “Disappeared” comment in a candidates database of a company or a recruitment agency the candidate is 100% sure to get blacklisted. No other his application, no matter how ideally he matches the position, will get a positive answer.

To disappear is the worst decision. To invest a minute to inform that you chose another opportunity, will mean a polite “Thanks for informing” answer and open doors for the future.

Markets are changing. The paradise for the candidates we observe today may again turn into an employers’ driven market. Disrespect to simple business ethics today can turn to be very costly in the future.