Planning your search
Top 10 Time Wasters List
Ten habits that stall a search, from incomplete job details to ghosting candidates and waiting for the perfect one. Read it before you start your next search.
Top 10 Time Wasters List
Ten habits that stall a search, from incomplete job details to ghosting candidates and waiting for the perfect one. Read it before you start your next search.
We’ve created this list of time wasters for you to review before starting your next search, to help you avoid them before they even happen!
- 1Having inaccurate/incomplete job or hiring profile details
- 2Poor time management (not prioritizing, not scheduling things out in advance)
- 3Not listening to the people who do this for a living. Note: they might know where you’re going wrong.
- 4Trying to be everything to everyone.
- 5Interviewing your customer’s grand nephew, and others who haven’t been vetted.
- 6Lack of communication (It’s called “ghosting”, for the record. It’s super annoying)
- 7Waiting for “the perfect one” (it doesn’t exist!)
- 8Failing to ask hard questions.
- 9Not selling. Would you leave a brochure on a customer’s desk and expect to close the deal?
- 10Falling in love with a candidate, and not being prepared with a plan B when you get dumped.
Keep going.
Elements of a Good Job Description
A full job description written as an example, from company overview to must haves, so you can see the shape of each section before you write your own.
Compensation and Benefits List
The compensation and benefits details worth having ready before a search launches, from base range and incentive comp to relocation, equity and promotion rates, with a note on when to share them.
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