these details that scare away job candidates

What dissuades candidates from applying for a job offer? This is the question that the CV advice platform, StandOut CV, wanted to clarify. To do this, analysts interviewed no less than 1,092 workers who shared their point of view on the subject. Here’s what we take away from it.

The top 5 red flags for candidates

Let us point out from the outset that this survey was carried out in the United States. We can therefore find some rather irrelevant details in our regions. But others can totally apply to French companies.

Here are the 5 main red flags of job advertisements that scare away potential candidates:

1. Job offers provide for the minimum amount of annual leave
2. Applicants are required or strongly encouraged to like other employees’ social media content
3. No salary information available
4. The company’s “About Us” page or board of directors lacks diversity
5. If a job offer or recruiter said “we are like family”

Employers are well advised not to require candidates to have a “winning mindset” or to expect future recruits to “strive” or “work hard” or risk seeing many potential recruits pass on.

The 5 “red flags” during job interviews

During this crucial phase, here are the top 5 details that put off job seekers:

1. The recruiter had an unpleasant smell
2. A group interview (several candidates)
3. The recruiter scratches your name
4. The recruiter shortens your first name without asking
5. If an ad or recruiter says “we’re like family”

“Ghost candidates worry companies

To complete, we can cite a study carried out by the Genius platform with 1000 British employees. It shows in particular that 34% of members of generation Z (people born between the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2010s) say they have decided to no longer respond to their employer or have no longer given any news during a recruitment phase.

The latter express anger in particular at a hiring process considered too long or at HR managers who take too long to respond to them, or even deliberately ignore them. It may even happen that a candidate has obtained a position, but decides not to go there on their first day of work. To find out more, we advise you to reread our article here.