Are you ghosting me?
I recently started working with the CEO of a company. I met him 8 years or so ago because I placed his wife. If you believe that birds of a feather flock together - she was an absolute rockstar - my client that hired her personally thanks me for "pushing him on her" every time I see him.
?And she married well.
?Her husband is a stud. His story isn't mine to tell. But my interaction with him is.
She sent him my information regarding a VP search recently - he and I connected - again I'd met him before - if someone with his success is willing to meet me, I'm there - but we had an hour-long call - and I thought it went great.
So, we started the search and about 20 phone calls in I found out we had competition. My personality profile - in addition to telling you I'm nuts - will also tell you that I don't like to win but that my hate to lose measurements are stratospheric.
So, this was a serious challenge and I put 4 rockstars in front of my client - I know the husband and I know the wife - and anything less wouldn't do.
And I'm thinking - he's going to see my "cover letters" and want to hire these folks immediately! But seriously he'll at least reply immediately, and we'll get started with interviews - he told me this search is urgent and critical.
One day goes by. Crickets.
Two days go by. Crickets.
So on and so forth.
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On day 4 I send him an email. Crickets.
Day 6 another email. Crickets.
Day 7 voicemail. Crickets.
Day 8 text message.
A response within minutes "Loved your candidates but I'm getting pulled in a million different directions with this position being open..."
I continued to follow-up - I delivered for him - and I kept it positive - even though I was thinking some negative thoughts.
Will he hire one of our folks - if he's smart he will. No, I'm kidding - but at least me and my candidates are still in the running.
Good luck out there!
#hiring #positivity #motivation #business
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11 个月Nice read. Your persistence made it difficult for him to ghost you.
General Counsel | Board Secretary
11 个月Sorry John Schmidt, but that's not Ghosting. He responded to your text. Ghosting is when it's been 4 years since you met and interviewed with the CEO, the heads of HR, operations, and sales, and you still haven't heard back despite repeated emails at the time, and even snail mail follow-ups. And then 4 years later you have lunch with someone, lower level, who you met at an earlier stage of interviewing, who is no longer with the company, and she is appalled and surprised that you were ghosted, and ?????????? heard back. The reality is that most ghosting isn't people being consciously rude, or even callous to your time. Most ghosting is the result of organizational ineptitude. People in the organization ?????????????? the organization is sending polite rejection emails to their unchosen candidates, but somehow, due to ineptitude, it's not happening. The surge we've seen in the last decade of companies ghosting unselected candidates (and I don't mean mere applicants, but bonafide, interviewed candidates) is directly attributable to sophisticated applicant tracking systems interfacing with less tech-savvy HR/talent acquisition folks.