Welcome to ‘career catfishing’ — Gen Z’s new defiance against to endless rounds of interviews and hiring managers who ghost

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• Ghosting strikes the hiring process, as Gen-Z applicants react to unresponsive hiring managers by no longer replying to messages and sometimes not even turning up on the first day of work.

Entering an increasingly competitive job market, some Gen Zers are responding to unusual situations in atypical ways. Dealing with endless rounds of interviews, slow-to-respond employers, and an overall frustrating hiring process, a fraction of the cohort have taken to ghosting their employers back.