> What bothers her most is the way some employers seem to relish being able to string candidates along. One flew her in for several hours of face-to-face interviews and never followed up.
I am sure a lot - maybe most! - of this "ghosting" really is just rudeness and/or abusing power. But in my anecdotal experience I was always way too busy to do my normal duties along with handling a hiring process, and I ended up stringing candidates along without intending to - in fact I felt terrible about it! Some managers accommodate the work of hiring by taking other stuff off your plate. Other managers dump too much of the hiring process onto you, even if you're already coding for 60 hours a week (my last job really sucked).
That said, note the extremely important caveat tucked at the very end:
> More than three-quarters of the reported job gains in the last month were concentrated in four sectors: government, healthcare, construction, and leisure and hospitality. Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down.
If you're involved in a hiring process, that is part of your regular duties. If the sum total of the things you need to get done can't be done in a reasonable amount of time each week, then it's your job to push back. Working 20 and 30 hours a week of overtime to get things done is just a recipe for inefficiency, burnout, and health problems.
If hiring activities are in your job description, then they’re part your duties. Otherwise they’re someone else foisting their responsibility onto you. This sort of doing is not uncommon. Your job might be a 40-50 hour/week deal, but management will ask more. And they’ll do it to get the work for free.
I will note that salaried positions often are arbitrary on the time commitment.
Regardless, in practice, if you're asked to do something by your management, that is literally the definition of "your regular duties." Working a couple hours overtime isn't anything worth complaining about (nothing will change and you'll get flagged as a complainer), but working an entire extra workday is. See my previous comment for reasons.
I am sure a lot - maybe most! - of this "ghosting" really is just rudeness and/or abusing power. But in my anecdotal experience I was always way too busy to do my normal duties along with handling a hiring process, and I ended up stringing candidates along without intending to - in fact I felt terrible about it! Some managers accommodate the work of hiring by taking other stuff off your plate. Other managers dump too much of the hiring process onto you, even if you're already coding for 60 hours a week (my last job really sucked).
That said, note the extremely important caveat tucked at the very end:
> More than three-quarters of the reported job gains in the last month were concentrated in four sectors: government, healthcare, construction, and leisure and hospitality. Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down.