Everyone's Getting Ghosted: The new normal in tech recruiting

Ghosting is a term that refers to asynchronous communication that is abruptly cut off by one party. The term is typically used in dating, but works well for tech recruiting too. In order for it to be ghosting, the ghosted party has to expect the conversation will continue. This means that if you apply and never hear back from a job, that’s not ghosting, a conversation never started. It only becomes ghosting when there is an expected next step that never happens.