Why are recruiters ghosting on job applicants? Like is giving an update or replying an email so difficult?

If the recruiter has spent time on speaking to the candidate and promise to get back to him/her the next day, and disappeared after that, is this excusable with 'too many to manage'? It's a really bad work ethics. And no one ever realise that these candidates could potentially be their fiture clients

That happened long time ago. I raised this in a post because i do find the recruiters are not behaving very professionally and engaging with candidates. 'Too much on their plate' or 'too many to manage' are sinply excuses imo. Who isnt very occupied with work? Everyone is equally busy and dropping a simple email update to someone you have spoken to before shows the good work ethics and will definitely be remembered by the candidates (like i said they are all their potential clients in future). I guess it's a culture thing in recruitment field, and unfortunately it's not something i appreciate. By saying this, I myself are in the client facing role and have to constantly engage differently stakeholders at the same time.

To answer your ques if i have followed up the recruiter back then, yes i had (2-3 times) and still did not get any response (ghosted i guess). I even got my friend in the same company to help emailing the recruiter and still.....
I had also came across recruiters who never responded after speaking to me despite telling me that they would give m me an update the following week and then totally forgot abt it, i could not be bothered with those as well. If you cant action on something then do not ever say that you will give an update the following week when you are not actually meaning it, right?

I have also seen on linkedin posts about recruiters complaining abt candidates never responded to them or showed up during interviews - I LOL-ed at that cause it seems like a karma to them.

This post has been edited by ziling60: Feb 21 2022, 11:46 PM

It wasnt even through a job application. They got the contacts from database and spoke abt a different job opportunities and then became not reachable. There was no job application to begin with and for the auto rejection email to come through, if u get what i mean?

I have had a HR person trying to ask for my IC copy, which I refused to provide (and will only provide when i accepted the job offer) and she did not want proceed with my application hence I withdrew. It is by a US MNC - but judging from interaction with the HR and the way she conversed (quite bad in English), they sounded like a chinaman organisation. I'd like to ask, why does the company request for an IC copy even during the initial stage of screening prior to interview? It does not make any sense - should we provide or should we not considering privacy reason?

There was once an external recruiter asked for my identification document copy as well, then went MIA/not responsive at all after that. This is very bizarre and I was very concerned and i will never give anyone any of my identification doc when the job offer is not extended to me and when i have not accepted the offer.

I realised that usually MNCs will not asking for any personal identification/IC copy, only those local companies or chinaman companies asked for it, they even have column abt your family members details in the application form - like what the heck do they need to know abt my father mother sister brother etc?

It's not uncommon for HR ppl to do this to the candidate without candidate's consent. Some are just pure unethical. This is exactly the reason why I always refused to provide any references details during initial stage or in the application form, and just write a remarks that i will only provide when offer is extended. If the HR do not like it, I lost interest in the company and walked away. You can tell how the company is operating judging from the way HR handle things, and usually i can identify a red flags from there.