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🚨 Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 4 🚨

The fastest way to slow down a search? Let your recruiter deliver half-vetted candidates just to “get something on the board.”

Welcome to Week 4 of my ‘Basic Recruiting Stuff’ series—your weekly dose of recruiting fundamentals, common pitfalls, and practical solutions from nearly two decades in the search business.

💥This Week’s Focus: Premature Submittals💥

✅ What Should Happen: Your recruiter should slow down—just enough to focus. Every candidate presented should feel like a true contender. Soft-vetted B-players don’t belong on your desk, and you shouldn’t be the one qualifying your own shortlist.

🚩 What Usually Happens: Many recruiters rush to send over candidates as quickly as possible—often within hours of getting the search. It may look like momentum, but underneath it’s guesswork wrapped in urgency. You waste hours reviewing mediocre resumes, jumping from one misaligned profile to the next. Worse? You now feel obligated to react, even though these “early birds” were clearly unfit. The result: downward pressure on decision-making, frustration for internal stakeholders, and—in some cases—settling, simply because you’re too buried to start over.

💡 Why It Matters: Fast-but-wrong submittals create false momentum, waste critical search energy, and destroy early trust in your process. You lose valuable time course-correcting—and if the first slate is underwhelming, executive energy starts to drift quickly.

🛠️ The ATS Approach: At Asymmetric Talent Solutions, we never shortcut discovery—and never substitute speed for substance. Every candidate we submit has been rigorously interviewed, aligned to your minimum viable criteria, and mapped against the full market. Because we commit to evidence-backed hiring briefs, you receive only real contenders—finalist-level people who advance the search, not distract from it. That’s why our clients spend <4 hours per search and reach final interviews 25% faster.

🎯 The Takeaway: Early is only good if it’s right. With the right process, your first look is your a manicured shortlist of finalist-level talent.

Smooth is fast.