Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 10: Modern & Effective Feedback
- Basic Recruiting Stuff
If your hiring ‘feedback’ process was any more broken, it would come with a recall notice. Most companies couldn’t give actionable feedback if you stapled it to their forehead—so candidates end up with useless corporate word salad or, worse, dead silence.
🚨 Welcome to Week 10 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: Modern & Effective Feedback💥
✅ What Should Happen: Candidates get fast, specific, unfiltered feedback—delivered before their coffee goes cold. Everyone in the process gets smarter, and only top-shelf talent moves forward.
🚩 What Usually Happens: Feedback is either applause for breathing or a passive-aggressive riddle worthy of a fortune cookie. Opinions vary by the hour, and nobody documents anything, so the only thing consistent is confusion. Candidates hear only “not a fit” after a month’s silence, while hiring managers brawl over what the hell the role even is. If this is your process, you ARE failing. Your vendor list is a graveyard of broken promises—stop pretending it’s not your fault.
💡 Why It Matters: Blowing feedback turns your hiring into a disaster assembly line. Top talent ghosts you, your brand becomes a punchline, and your execs wonder why every critical role sits open like a condemned building.
🛠️ The ATS Approach: At Asymmetric Talent, we weaponize clarity—every piece of feedback is fast, brutal, and actionable, shared openly through our real-time portal. Our process is built for ruthless transparency, so hiring managers and candidates alike know where they stand and what to fix—no translation required. That’s why clients torch their old recruiting contacts after one cycle with us: we solve what others screw up, and we don’t leave a mess behind.
🎯 The Takeaway: If your team can’t deliver real feedback, you’re not just incompetent—you’re the weak link wrecking your company’s reputation. Step up or step aside. This is SEARCH, not group therapy.
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