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If people were merely assets then I might agree with this, but they are not, they are people. They are people who one day you will work with, have lunch with, a

If people were merely assets then I might agree with this, but they are not, they are people. They are people who one day you will work with, have lunch with, and maybe have over to your house on the weekend for a BBQ. As such, I find that for my own sense of worth I need to know that I treated them like people from when I first met them. There is a risk trade-off: risk of missing your target vs. risk of making people feel like an asset. I'd rather miss my target by a little bit..

sokoloff 18y ago
That's one legitimate viewpoint, but on the flipside, realize that I truly believe I work for (and represent) a fantastic employer, and that everyone on the waitlist who needlessly ends up working someplace else in the parallel universe, in which we didn't use exploding offers, has been "harmed" by that outcome. IMO, it's not just about treating your first choice potential employee as a person, but about treating your last choice potential employee as a person too.