The title sounds a bit abnormal but we actually experienced this fiasco earlier this year with one of our customers. The candidate accepted the offer and agreed to start in 3 weeks (she was moving from another state). To our surprise and our customer’s dismay, she contacted them approximately 10 days after accepting to say she took a different opportunity.<\/p>\n
The hiring landscape is changing with the younger generation. I have never heard of a candidate backing out of an agreed upon offer with a firm start date.<\/p>\n
I guess I am naive because I just read this article<\/a> from CareerJournal.com. Who knows, maybe the author of the question was our candidate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The title sounds a bit abnormal but we actually experienced this fiasco earlier this year with one of our customers. The candidate accepted the offer and agreed to start in 3 weeks (she was moving from another state). To our surprise and our customer’s dismay, she contacted them approximately 10 days after accepting to say she took a different opportunity. The hiring landscape is changing with the younger generation. I have never heard of a candidate backing out of an agreed upon offer with a firm start date. I guess I am naive because I just read this article from CareerJournal.com. Who knows, maybe the author of the question was… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}