why your hiring process is failing #techjobs #hiringstrategy

30 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Most hiring teams start with too few candidates, usually five, forcing rushed final rounds and restarts when offers fall through. Begin with 15 to 20 candidates instead, narrow to five for final interviews, and treat people the way you'd want to be treated in their position.

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So when it comes to hiring, it's intentionality, it's expectation setting, and it's treating others the way you want to be treated. It's not that hard. You need to be smart, you need to be intentional, you need to have partners, but you also need to realize that you need to start with a wide net. A wide net and then slowly bring it down. Because I will tell you this, a lot of hiring, they want to start with 5 candidates and then the final round they want to have 1 candidate. That's not how that works. You want to start with 15, 20 candidates on the front end, and then your final round should have 5. You spent 30 days with option 1, they rejected your offer. 2, 3, and 4 feel like you haven't given them a time of day. So guess what? You started your entire search back over again.