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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by bonestamp2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:22PM (#25562791)
Agreed. If I can tell ahead of time that the recruiter is a ghost, then I can tell them I don't want to work with them because they've got a bad reputation on the ghost-list. Like a bad yelp review, that will hopefully motivate them to change. As long as new reports keep coming in, their full history remains. But old reviews should start to fall off the ghost-list after a certain amount of time without a new report of ghosting (to reward the positive change in behavior).
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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by slg on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:14PM (#25563301)
If you give people who didn't get a job the chance to anonymously trash the reputation of a recruiter, the veracity of the reviews are going to be garbage.
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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by awillen on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:23PM (#25563965)
I think this is overly cynical - the vast majority of people, particularly those interviewing for high-skill tech jobs, understand that the recruiter is the messenger when it comes to the actual decision.
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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by slg on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:50PM (#25564219)
The problem is these review sites rely on complete honesty. Simply having "the vast majority of people" being honest isn't enough as it doesn't take many malicious actors to ruin an anonymous review system. You can ask basically any teacher for their thoughts on something like Rate My Professor.
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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by bonestamp2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:26PM (#25565562)
It's not a review though, it's a "did they ghost you" boolean.
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Re:Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by re... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:39PM (#25572344)
Even a simple boolean like that is still subject to mostly getting results from upset people. People don’t tend to fill out surveys or reviews unless they’re either (1) upset or (2) there’s a reward (like “$1 off your next order” surveys)
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