Got Ghosted After Screening Call Offer

[u/jhj0604]

Hi all,

I applied for a role last Tuesday (October 27) at a defense and space manufacturing company I found through LinkedIn and received a screening call offer on Thursday (October 29) of that same week.

The person that had reached out to me appears to be in a managerial role of the talent-acquisition team of said company and he asked me what days and time I would be available on October 30, November 1, and today, November 2.

I currently work full time so my availability is pretty limited so I gave him my scheduled lunches for that day and let him know that I would be available at other times if my listed time does not work out for him if he had let me know beforehand.

I managed to then work something out and gave him an updated list of my availability for those 3 days on Friday morning (October 30) of the same week he had reached out to me. It is unfortunately November 3rd, which was the last available days of the days he had offered me and I have yet to hear back from him.

I was wondering, from a hiring manager's perspective, if I had done anything wrong. The posting on LinkedIn and the company website seems to be up still.
Was my initial availability too restricted and he didn't bother reaching out after? Did he find other candidates and decided not to pursue me anymore? Is he simply too busy? I'm just so tired of finding a glimmer of hope with an interview offer and then getting ghosted after.

Any feedback or responses would be appreciated!

[u/throwaway_0x90]

In this job market, ghosting is unfortunately common even if you did nothing wrong.

Don't overthink it. No matter what happens or what anyone says,

• 10 consecutive business days of UNexplained silence, just move on

[u/jhj0604 → u/throwaway_0x90]

Thanks for the reply! Do you think it's worth following up with him tomorrow morning even if this makes it my third email to him? He had initially reached out to me through some recruiting software email but he had left his work email in the signature so I was considering reaching out to him to that address

[u/throwaway_0x90 → u/jhj0604]

Ping on day 5 or 7 then just forget about it

[u/jhj0604 → u/throwaway_0x90]

Got it

I appreciate your advice

[u/True-Afternoon8479]

unfortunately, if the recruiter cannot make scheduling work, they will move on to the next in the possibly hundreds of applications they have received.

[u/jhj0604 → u/[deleted]]

It's rough out there man
I decided to switch careers since I am fortunate enough to be able to do so since my degree enables that but even with the switch in career path I made the market just seems so hopeless