I am continually amazed at how unaware employers can be when it comes to the importance of making a favorable first impression on candidates during the interview process. It’s as though they have amnesia with respect to what it’s like to be a candidate. Let’s face it, we were all there once.
Here are some of the things that employers often do that can cause a candidate to lose interest in signing on with your company:
(Not necessarily in any order of frustration)
- Long, drawn-out multi-round interview processes. This is exhausting to the candidate. If you must perform multiple rounds, why not set up a panel interview and bypass the need to schedule the candidate multiple times??It’s actually more efficient for you as well. ?
- Lack of strategic congruity among multiple interviewers.?Clients, have you ever stopped to think about the importance of having a consistent narrative? News flash… candidates will pick up on the fact that interviewers are contradicting each other. Get together ahead of time and solidify your message.?
- Distracted and poorly engaged interviewer. Nothing says you are not important more than this.
- Offers that are below market value for the position. Why, why why??This is insulting. Then you wonder why you are having problems attracting and retaining the best talent.?Just pay people what they are worth in the marketplace.??
- Interviewers that do a terrible job at selling the opportunity to a prospective candidate. Why would someone want to work there if you can’t sell the opportunity yourself? Makes me wonder why you are interviewing people in the first place.
- Long delays in arriving at a decision after the interview process is completed. Paralysis by analysis. Nothing like wasting everyone’s time. Including yours. In the end, great candidates will ultimately lose interest and move on. ?
CLIENTS: REMEMBER THAT CANDIDATES ARE INTERVIEWING YOU AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE INTERVIEWING THEM.
Stop doing the same things over and over again.?
Put your best foot forward.
