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The post has sparked a discussion about trust, professionalism and ghosting in recruitment. (Unsplash\/Representational image)<\/p>\nA startup founder\u2019s candid post on hiring challenges has triggered a discussion on trust, professionalism and ghosting in recruitment. In a post shared on X, Pritesh Lakhani, co-founder of B2B marketplace Pneucons, detailed a series of recent hiring setbacks that led him to question why the recruitment process feels increasingly dysfunctional.<\/p>\n
The post has sparked a discussion about trust, professionalism and ghosting in recruitment. (Unsplash\/Representational image)<\/p>\n
Lakhani wrote that two new recruits joined and quit within just 2 days of receiving their offer letters, while another candidate accepted an offer last month but never showed up. \u201cNo drama. No explanation. Just wasted time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In response, Lakhani said that his company altered its hiring process, deciding to issue offer letters only after candidates formally joined. \u201cWe decided to share offer letters only after people joined. Not to control anyone. Just to protect ourselves from repeat no-shows,\u201d he wrote. However, he added that even this change failed to solve the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why hiring feels broken. Not because companies are heartless, but because trust keeps getting abused. Every \u2018rigid policy\u2019 is usually a response to something that already went wrong,\u201d Lakhani wrote. He concluded by saying that trust erodes gradually. \u201cPeople say companies don\u2019t trust candidates anymore. True. But trust isn\u2019t lost randomly. It\u2019s lost one offer letter at a time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
How did social media react? <\/p>\n
The post struck a chord with several users, many of whom echoed similar frustrations in the comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cOffer letters are often used by the candidates to negotiate a higher salary from another employer …in that process they will try to secure as many offers as possible and eventually ghost all those companies …what a waste of everyone’s time,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am into Recruitment. In the recruitment business, we can’t trust even a single candidate fully\u2014even after they join. Every month, around 10 of our candidates back out just days before their joining date, despite the lengthy and effort-intensive hiring process that candidates often fail to appreciate,\u201d shared another.<\/p>\n
However, not everyone agreed with Lakhani\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery man for itself. Where is this professionalism when MD buys an audi and offers 1% increment. When people lay off workers instead of reducing management perks and bonuses.<\/p>\n
If u value US professionalism so much Google Verizon and see the belt treatment they are receiving,\u201d wrote one user.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a big load of shit! Pay the candidates for what they are worth instead of low-balling them and they will never leave you like this. And not sharing offer letter before joining? That\u2019s just pathetic! Who will ever join like this? Would you? Stop being greedy and pay your employees their worth, or else someone else will and you will end up with just the core team,\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A startup founder\u2019s candid post on hiring challenges has triggered a discussion on trust, professionalism and ghosting in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,198,224689,224686,224687,94289,224688],"class_list":["post-428491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ghosting-in-recruitment","tag-hiring-challenges","tag-offer-letters","tag-recruitment-process","tag-trust-in-hiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}