Etiquette | How to tell if your candidate has bad manners

There’s only one thing that’s scarier than attending a job interview and that’s having to cancel one.

There may be a whole host of reasons candidates choose to cancel an interview; they could have a family emergency, be offered a different role or they may simply just have a change of heart.

While recruiters can all appreciate that a change in circumstance is inevitable when it comes to arranging interviews, it all comes down to the way in which job candidates choose to cancel.

This comes after Abby Robbins, Recruitment Director at Yellow Bricks, took to LinkedIn to ask how individuals feel about jobseekers who cancel. She wrote: “How do we feel about people cancelling an interview at short notice by email? For me it's a major turn off and shows bad manners, what do you think?”