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Having previously worked as a director of talent acquisition for Conner Strong and Buckelew, she says hiring managers are too scared to tell applicants they didn’t get the gig, and overall, employers have the upper hand in today’s job market.
“We need this law. We need it in America. We need it everywhere,” Papalia says. “They’d rather breadcrumb [applicants] and play these mind games, or they just truly lack any courage or bravery.”
Papalia compared applying for work in a job-seeker’s market to selling a house in a time of low or high demand. Since there’s a surplus of applicants on the market, the chances of job-seekers landing their dream role becomes increasingly more difficult. In the meantime, her advice is to apply to as many jobs as possible.
“If you’re selling a house in a seller’s market, you don’t do anything at your house, and you’ll get 40 offers,” Papalia continues. “If you’re selling it in a buyer’s market, you have to get it staged, you have to get it repainted, and you have to make it the best it could possibly be.”
Her advice for Gen Z? Don’t believe anything a company says until they make you an offer— even when they say things like “we’re putting an offer together” or “you’re our number one applicant.”
Not only does ghosting discourage applicants in the short term, but it could damage the company’s reputation in the future.
“When you are treated really well in an interview process, you tell your friends and family you gain a certain respect for that organization,” Papalia says.
“When you’re ghosted and when you’re treated like you’re disposable, you feel like sh–t, and that company’s reputation is then on the line. And right now, companies aren’t thinking very deeply about how they treat their candidates, how it really affects people.”
