Was laid off after ten years at BNYM and am coming down to my last couple of months of SUB pay and state unemployment. Have been applying for jobs at various companies. Got a first interview at BNYM with a department manager and his assistant. Over a month later, haven’t heard anything despite an email to the recruiter. Has anyone else been ghosted like this? Is this a common thing?
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Thats like marrying the same abusive woman twice.
be glad you were ghosted by bnym, there are better options!!!!
I was displaced over a year ago and applied for a job back at the bank and had interview set up this. Week but they cancelled it . Hmmmmm.
I had an interview last week and I contacted the h/r recruiter asking if she had any information about where I stand and she told me she was still waiting to hear back from the hiring manager as to whether or not I move forward.
Interviewing is all a waiting game. They take so long and then you have to explain the gaps in your resume!
Consider another aspect: recruiting is understaffed like many other departments and there is no bandwidth for recruiters to get back to everyone so they communicate only with those moving forward...
I had about four interviews last week and they led no where.
Yes, even as an internal candidate I was ignored by the recruiter after an interview. Glad I found something external.
Thanks for the replies! (I was the one who posted the question). Makes me feel a little better that this is more common than I thought. Will definitely get the book by Skip Freeman. Thanks again!
This is par for the course with recruitment. Not specific to BNY. Recruiters are lazy and no one will ever know that they actually don't do their jobs since they can easily fake every required step.
Ghosting has been a "thing" since the early 2000s in my experience. In this litigiuos society, companies are afraid of giving a candidate a justification of why they don't want to move forward with the interview/hiring process so that s/he can file a lawsuit.
My best advice after a interview: send a thank you email (add some phrases to reinforce the idea of why you are the best fit for the position) and a follow-up 1 week later. Radio silence? Time to move on.
One book really opened my eyes about job hunting - I was doing everything wrong before. The book is "Headhunter Hiring Secrets 2.0: How to FIRE Up Your Career and Land Your IDEAL Job!" from Skip Freeman. The main thing there is that the hiring process is an elimination process and it guides you through that.
Best of luck in your job search.
Same thing, interviewed and then crickets...