Making candidates feel genuinely wanted and like they belong is the biggest recruiting advantage. Most recruiters get stuck in transactional funnels focused on numbers, but candidate satisfaction scores show belonging drives outcomes. Treat hiring as finding the right person, not bulk processing.
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Over the history of time, when you look at candidate satisfaction scores, the number one thing that's always there is the company genuinely wanted me. They made it feel like I belong there. And so the more that we can care for our candidates and demonstrate that, I think is an unfair advantage. That is like an effort and that is an extra step type of thing. It's the extra intentionality that you take that I think in a very somewhat feeling like transactional business like recruiting, it's If you're doing this like step-by-step funnel of doom, you kind of get caught up in the steps. You get caught up in the numbers game. I need to reach out to 100 to get to 20. I need to have 10 hiring manager screens to get 4 onsite. You know, you get caught up in the numbers and you lose the human element. You're looking for the one, you know, it's like I try to remind my team, like, we're trying to hire one person for this role here, not 10. Focus on the one.