First of all, recruiting is a numbers game. If you’re “starting all over again” every time one single candidate does not make it all the way through your pipeline to a signed offer, you’re placing WAY too much faith in each prospect. That’s just silly, for lots of reasons.
I would never defend straight up unprofessional behavior like showing up late. But if you want to complain about people never replying or following up... yeah, let’s not pretend like tons of employers don’t do that. I can understand the frustration, but this is one of those situations where you’re not sitting in traffic, you are the traffic.
There is also a weird tone of entitlement here. The fact is that good talent, right now, has lots of demand. So you as an employer need to do the selling. You need to sell the company to the candidate, you’re not gonna just have good candidates come around hat in hand, knowing everything about your company and hoping for an offer. That attitude is just delusional. They don’t know anything about your company because they’re trying to decide between all the options they have.
Would you hire a candidate who fails to distinguish themselves from the rest of the field? No, right? So how are you distinguishing your company from everyone else who’s hiring?
It’s a sellers market. You can either face that fact or you can write blog posts.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.0 ms ] threadI would never defend straight up unprofessional behavior like showing up late. But if you want to complain about people never replying or following up... yeah, let’s not pretend like tons of employers don’t do that. I can understand the frustration, but this is one of those situations where you’re not sitting in traffic, you are the traffic.
There is also a weird tone of entitlement here. The fact is that good talent, right now, has lots of demand. So you as an employer need to do the selling. You need to sell the company to the candidate, you’re not gonna just have good candidates come around hat in hand, knowing everything about your company and hoping for an offer. That attitude is just delusional. They don’t know anything about your company because they’re trying to decide between all the options they have.
Would you hire a candidate who fails to distinguish themselves from the rest of the field? No, right? So how are you distinguishing your company from everyone else who’s hiring?
It’s a sellers market. You can either face that fact or you can write blog posts.