Not showing up for a job interview or your job on the first day: this practice is increasingly widespread among young people (but also among their elders) if we are to believe a recently published study. And this behavior, which one might find unwelcome, is not the result of chance. Let’s take stock.
Rudeness or feeling of injustice?
According to a survey of 1,000 British employees by the Genius platform, 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 no longer have any news.
Some people say they are annoyed by endless recruitment phases or by HR managers who take too long to respond to them, or even deliberately ignore them. In some cases, an employee who has completed all the steps decides not to come on the day he takes up his position.
Thus, young people would be tempted to accept an offer initially in a context of heightened competition on the job market. Then, taking the time to think, they end up giving up and disappearing into nature.
Note also that this trend also affects recruitment managers. In a Resume Genius survey relayed by Fortune80% of them admitted to stopping responding to candidates during the application process.
The boom in resignations out of revenge
Tension is clearly rising within certain companies. We recently spoke to you about the phenomenon of “revenge quitting” which refers to a resignation where the employee chooses to loudly express their dissatisfaction.
Edel Holliday-Quinn, business psychologist, explained that these are boosted by the increase in the workload imposed on employees and by the successive reversals linked to teleworking upon returning to the office. He added: “The job market is starting to relax, and for those who are seething with frustration, this might just be the year they finally quit, not just silently, but out loud.”. To go further, do not hesitate to reread our article on this subject here.
What to remember:
- Many candidates have gotten into the habit of not showing up for interviews or, on their first day on the job
- Some change their minds along the way or decide to rebel against the recruiter’s lack of attention or a process considered too long.
- Human resources managers also say they deliberately ignore certain candidates
