As of: March 1, 2024, 3:01 p.m
By: Clara Kistner
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The term “ghosting” was sometimes primarily known from online dating.
Without any further explanation, one party simply breaks off contact with the other.
Slowly but surely, this concept seems to have crept into the job world.
An online survey by the applicant management site Softgarden
showed
that more and more job seekers are using the questionable strategy.
Ten percent of applicants resigned immediately after signing the employment contract, but before starting the new position.
Some chose not to formally terminate their employment at all and did not even take up the new position.
Losing contact with the employer – what is the reason?
According to the numbers from the online survey reported by
Spiegel
, the question arises as to what motivates the affected applicants to behave in this way.
According to the results, one in four respondents “ghosted” because of a better job offer.
A similar number of contact breakers said they were dissatisfied with their new employer during the application process.
“Job ghosting” – when there is suddenly silence from the employer or employee even after a signed employment contract.
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The dissatisfaction was partly based on the fact that the managers did not introduce themselves personally and were not allowed to get to know their new team in advance.
Although the unexplained radio silence from the employee usually occurs before the employment contract is signed, almost half of those surveyed only “ghosted” their employer after the signature was signed.
Termination after the first few days in the new job – no longer uncommon
There is always talk of a current labor market.
This is sometimes noticeable in the behavior of job seekers.
Whether directly in the job interviews or afterwards, employees seem to have fewer scruples about taking risks on the job.
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The online survey also showed that 21 percent of participants left their new job within the first 100 days.
While it was just under 12 percent in 2018, almost 18 percent left their new job early in 2022, reported the news site
T3n.de.
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Similar to online dating, job platforms such as LinkedIn and Stepstone often lead applicants to believe that the next and probably better offer is just a quick swipe away on the screen.
This state gives many people a kind of security that may allow them to act accordingly.