Why we built anti-ghosting into the core

Ghosting hit a three-year peak: 53% of job seekers were ghosted in the past year, and 80% won't reapply to a company that never got back to them. That's not just rude — it's a supply-side risk for any two-sided marketplace.

How the status timeline works

Every application on jajob has a visible timeline: received → viewed → shortlisted → interview → offer → decision. Each change is timestamped and shown to the candidate. Employers who leave applications sitting get a stale flag in their pipeline after a week.

Reciprocity, not surveillance

We notify candidates on every status change — but we never expose surveillance-style metrics about them to employers (days spent searching, mailbox reads). Transparency flows toward companies (public actors); privacy protects individuals. That asymmetry is deliberate, and it's what keeps jajob both trusted and GDPR-clean.