You’re scrolling on LinkedIn and see your dream role. You take hours refining your CV to suit the job description and work on your cover letter to explain why you’d be such a good fit for the company… only to submit your application and never hear anything back.

We’ve all been there – desperate for a reply from a potential employer who never responds. And, while ‘ghosting’ may typically lend itself to describing matches on Hinge who never message you back or the person you start texting who just stops replying, the concept has found its way into the world of careers, too.

It appears to be such a prevalent issue that CV Genius has published an ‘Employer Ghosting Report’ after finding that 56% of UK employers may have ghosted job applicants during the recruitment process. If a candidate is unsuccessful, many hiring managers said they just wouldn’t bother getting back to explain why, with two in 10 saying they “don’t have a problem” with ghosting applicants.

Over half of UK employers are ‘ghosting’ applicants, according to a new study