"It can be so awful," said Michelle Lentz, who's on the job market after a recent layoff from a boutique consulting firm. Lentz said she has been ghosted multiple times recently - sometimes not hearing back at all, and other times getting to the interview process, only for the recruiter to go silent.
Ebbing demand for traditional consulting services has prompted job cuts and slower hiring at firms like Accenture Plc, Ernst & Young and McKinsey & Co. Uncertainty around the US presidential election and renewed concerns about a looming recession have also cooled a market where lucrative jobs were plentiful just two years ago.
Growth in the US consulting market slowed last year to 5.2%, according to Source Global Research, an industry researcher, down from 14% the previous year, as nearly half of firms that use consultants said they were scaling back, deferring or canceling projects.
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