Job applicants have no way to know which companies are known for ghosting after interviews
Sending applications into silence is now the default hiring experience. Candidates spend hours preparing, interviewing, and following up with no response. There is no centralised, reliable record of which companies do this repeatedly, so every applicant walks into the same trap with no warning.
Who has this problem
Active job seekers
People who want to know, before applying, which companies have a track record of going silent after interviews.
Recent graduates and career changers
People new to interviewing who are most likely to read silence as their own failure.
Laid-off workers in long searches
Candidates who interview repeatedly and can least afford wasted rounds.
Recruiters and employer-brand teams who want to be seen as responsive
Companies whose reputations suffer when candidates share ghosting stories.
Signal timeline
Criteria Corp's 2026 Candidate Experience Report (2,500+ job seekers worldwide) finds 53% were ghosted by an employer in the past year, a three-year high, up from 48% in the 2025 report and 38% in the 2024 report; the company attributes the rise to AI-inflated application volume overwhelming recruiter triage capacity.
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