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🚨 Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 10 🚨

Your team interviews a finalist, vanishes, and returns three weeks later like nothing happened. Spoiler: Ghosting candidates is not a retention strategy, and ‘black box feedback’ isn’t a leadership virtue.

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: Interview Feedback Loops💥

✅ What Should Happen: Feedback is delivered precisely—immediately after interviews, in a format that’s candid but actionable, leaving all parties clear on next steps and expectations. Bonus points if hiring managers actually remember the candidate’s name.

🚩 What Usually Happens: Teams treat feedback like a CIA operation: vague, delayed, or missing altogether. Candidates get a “Thanks, we’ll be in touch,” followed by radio silence; hiring managers forget who they just met, and interview notes become cryptic haikus (“seems nice, maybe too nice?”). The process drags while talent gets cold, and recruiters play referee in the world’s slowest relay race.

💡 Why It Matters: Lack of timely, quality feedback tanks your brand—candidates share bad experiences far and wide. Decisions slow, opportunities are missed, and “always-be-closing” becomes “always-be-explaining” why people dropped out.

🛠️ The ATS Approach: At Asymmetric Talent Solutions, we close the feedback gap by running a feedback relay—actionable, structured, and in real time. Every interview touchpoint is tracked and executed in our client portal, with clear next steps and status updates, so nobody gets lost in the shuffle. Our steering meetings preserve client time and eliminate fragmented emails and calls for piecemeal ad-hoc “needs”. Our structured process eliminates blackout periods and guarantees that candidates hear back swiftly, with details that matter. This keeps engagement high and delivers 25% faster finalist presentations.

🎯 The Takeaway: Feedback isn’t icing on the cake—it’s the baking instructions. Skip it, and all you’ve got is a candidate pancake that nobody wants to eat.

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