Skip to content


What to Say to the Candidates You Don’t Hire

Handshake

Feed-twFeed-fb

So you’ve just wrapped up a week of interviewing candidates for an opening in your department, and on Friday afternoon you reconvene with the rest of the interview committee to swap notes. The good news is there’s a clear front-runner, and you’re all excited to make this person an offer.

The bad? There were a couple of other candidates you liked, but who just weren’t quite the right fit. And next week, you’ll have to both let them down gently, and field their “Can you give me any feedback on why I didn’t get the job?” requests.

If you’re dreading this step in the process, you’re not alone. Many interviewers don’t like or simply don’t know how to deliver the news, so they use a generic form letter and go radio silent after that. Read more…

More about Employment, Job Interview, Employers, Business, and Jobs


Read more : What to Say to the Candidates You Don’t Hire

Posted in Business, Web.

Tagged with , , , , , , , , , .


0 Responses

Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.



Some HTML is OK

or, reply to this post via trackback.