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VERY QUICKLY13 Jan 2025
Move over quiet quitting, career catfishing is here
- What do you call it when an employee accepts a job offer but never shows up for their first day of work? Career catfishing, apparently.
- According to a survey of 1,000 UK employees conducted by online résumé platform, CV Genius, 34 per cent of Gen Z workers are “catfishing” employers.
- Frustrated by seven rounds of interviews, a 10-business-day wait to get responses from managers, Gen Zers are trying to shift power dynamics by ghosting their employers back, after the offer’s in the bag.
- But it’s not just the under-27 set, one in four (24 per cent) of millennials have “career catfished,” as have 11 per cent of Gen Xers, and 7 per cent of boomers.
