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How long do you plan to hold onto their data? Are you going to continue contact to ensure they're still interested? Are you burdening them to tell you repeatedl
by ksaj 4y ago
How long do you plan to hold onto their data? Are you going to continue contact to ensure they're still interested? Are you burdening them to tell you repeatedly over the months down the road that they are still interested (or not)? Kinda like a newsletter they have to sign up for?
You are basically describing a head hunting operation. Connect with a head hunter and let them do the vetting, instead of wasting so many people's time for a job that is going to be 20 levels away.
You have the gig, or you don't. Or you're a headhunter for a single job that maybe might be available some time way out in the future. That would be a waste of everyone's time.
- monkey26 4y agoWe try to get back to them asap with a message along the lines that they don't have the skills we're looking for right now, but will keep them in mind for a few months should things change. We've yet to catch a superstar with this strategy.. I wouldn't even call it a strategy. At one time we did have these positions open and ready to fill, we just never took them down after filling, just to see what trickles in.
- ksaj 4y agoI still say, only as opinion of course, do not pretend you are hiring when you aren't. What you are doing is collecting personal information under the guise of a potential gig that does not exist. There is a clear moral aspect, and a clear legal one besides. Doing this for people who applied for, but didn't get, the real job is fine. Continuing to do it when the job is no longer available is a kind of surveillance.