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If I meet a candidate and they haven't used back channels to find out what challenges my team is facing, it's an auto-reject for me. You should at least care en
by legerdemain 5y ago
If I meet a candidate and they haven't used back channels to find out what challenges my team is facing, it's an auto-reject for me. You should at least care enough to do some sleuthing behind the scenes.
- warrenm 5y agoAnd for folks who don't have the connections to "back channel" the issues you have? Guess you just outright reject 98% of all possible applicants?
- tharkun__ 5y agoI'm interested why you expect that. I suppose you expect that of anyone and not just juniors? I suspect that you don't work at $BIG_CO and rather something more startup-y? If a company expects me to spend my free time doing investigative social engineering work to cut through layers of indirection from a job advert to the interviewer, it's an auto-reject for me. The company should at least care enough about hiring someone to understand that they're selling their team and company "culture" (for lack of a better word) to me as much as I am selling my labour to them. I guess I would totally not have been hired by you :)
- jestar_jokin 5y agoSo a candidate has to know someone who's already in the company? Which means they probably went to the same school/uni. Rough for anyone outside your bubble. Or they cold-call people at the company, hoping to get the goss. Staff knowing about the candidacy should not respond. Others would hopefully be suspicious - how can you trust staff who tell company problems to any old "candidate"?
- bil7 5y agohow many people have you interviewed that met this requirement?