The hot job market is cooling off. Why are new hires still ghosting employers?
When you’re in demand, going radio silent after a job offer may seem harmless, but experts warn that hiring managers have long memories.
The hot labor market has cooled in recent months amid talk of a recession and layoffs, but those worrisome indicators haven’t put much of a dent in a peculiar pattern that has emerged in recent years for job seekers: the application, the job interview, the job offer, getting hired—and then failing to show up for the first day of work and subsequently disappearing.