Stop ghosting! It’s Damaging Your Professional Reputation.

Save your ghosting for your personal life

I’m not talking about the pain of ghosting that apparently happens now in the world of dating. I’ve been out of that game for several decades, so I have nothing much to say on that issue. It does leave people hanging with a million questions, but sometimes it is better and safer to just disappear. I get that.

I’m talking about the ghosting in the professional world that is damaging your reputation and limiting your career. A mature professional responds, follows up, and cleanly closes things out.

Inexplicably disappearing and refusing to respond to repeated communication attempts is the sign of someone who avoids conflict, can’t communicate honestly, and perhaps doesn’t understand how disrespectful it is.

Ghosting during the interview process

This isn’t about ghosting when you receive unwanted initial contact from recruiters. We all get bombarded with irrelevant jobs from people we don’t…