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> Wait to receive 50, 100 or even more applications. Make sure you have a big pool of candidates because that’s how you’ll find your next dream employee. > Af
by dilyevsky 9y ago
> Wait to receive 50, 100 or even more applications. Make sure you have a big pool of candidates because that’s how you’ll find your next dream employee.
> After that, we start narrowing down the list to the top 5 or 10 candidates. We have multiple rounds of job interviews, usually 2 or 3. Thanks to this we are able to narrow down our list to the top 3 candidates and make the final decision. Yes, this process takes time, usually weeks. If you’re not in a hurry you should follow this slow method, trust me, it’s worth the time.
Perfect strategy to only have people who are desperate/lazy enough to have nothing else lined up during that time! Not sure about "best" though but they sure as hell will be cheap.
- adventured 9y agoBy the time they're done compiling that massive list, and then narrowing it down, in this job market (which is set to get even tighter), their dream candidate is long gone. Far more realistic: you have to constantly adapt to the labor market a lot more than their rigid premise suggests. There is no actual dream candidate (just like the article's premise is a fantasy), they do not exist, they have never existed, they will never exist; smart compromise is an always present requirement of success and that goes for team building as well as anything else. Or to steal from a related concept: a great candidate hired today, is better than a fantasy dream candidate hired at some unknown time in the future.
- albedoa 9y agoYup, followed by "Oh you've received other offers? We'll see if we can accelerate the process on our end". No thanks, I'll just go with the existing offer from a company that doesn't hoist neon red flags during their interview process.