Tech companies throw away resumes and interview notes after rejecting candidates, then restart from scratch each hiring cycle. Keeping detailed records lets recruiters pick up conversations months later and fill roles faster. It's a waste that hurts both efficiency and how candidates feel.
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What are we doing with the data, right? Like, how are we documenting interviews? One of the things I was so passionate about at my last company I worked at is documentation, right? We gotta slow down to speed up. One of the reasons why I was so effective in recruiting is because I kept pretty detailed notes. If that candidate came back to me in a year, like, based off my notes, I could pick up the conversation and slide that individual into another interview pretty quickly, 'cause I kept up with that. I think one of the biggest problems within companies internally is that they do all this interviewing, and they're like, all right, you're rejected, and then it's like, boop, there goes the resume, there goes all the data, and you're just kinda starting from square one. Again,