The last two points are particularly key. If your company fails to outline the hiring process to the candidate (or maybe your process doesn't even have an outli

The last two points are particularly key. If your company fails to outline the hiring process to the candidate (or maybe your process doesn't even have an outline) and if people regularly get "lost in the shuffle," not only is your hiring practice broken but that's probably an indicator that there are deeper organization problems. A manager that I adored that I had silently chosen not to accept the offer because I didn't show up on my first day. Turns out the recruiter had told me a different start date. And this happened twice more with new people that started, just HR bungling the process and seeming to reinvent it with each new hire.