What has happened to common courtesy, respect and appreciation for people in the job and career search process? I have been seeing and hearing how job seekers are ignored, not communicated with and jerked around by companies they are seeking employment with for weeks. No response, no reply, nothing, even after they have been contacted and gone through interviews.
Here is an exceptional article by Jeff Hagen, written for Inc.com about the biggest hiring mistake companies make. This is such a smart, perceptive must read for anyone job searching and for the companies who are hiring.
Jeff Haden learned much of what he knows about business and technology as he worked his way up in the manufacturing industry. Everything else he picks up from ghostwriting books for some of the smartest leaders he knows in business. @jeff_haden
Hagen writes:
Let a good one get away? That’s a bad mistake but not the worst. Here’s the one that trumps all the rest.
We’ve all hired people we just knew would be superstars… who turned out to be duds.
And we’ve all passed on people who turned out to be superstars at another company. (If you’re like me, you regret the ones you let get away more than the ones you had to let go.)
Big mistakes? Sure—but not the biggest hiring mistake.
Here’s the biggest hiring mistake you can make: Failing to follow up with and provide closure to every person who applies for a job.
“According to our research, approximately 94% of the people who apply for a job don’t get closure,” says John Younger, founder and CEO of Accolo, a cloud recruiting solutions provider. ”
