When the interviewing process takes too much time

Common Hiring Mistakes – The Hiring Process Takes a Long Time

As a plastics headhunter, I see several mistakes that companies make when hiring. These mistakes are common within all sizes of companies, whether it is one of the large industry giants or a mom and pop plastics company. Below is the first of many mistakes that I will outline:

THE HIRING PROCESS TAKES A LONG TIME
One thing to keep in mind is that time kills deals. The longer the hiring process takes, the more likely you are to lose the candidate you want for your plastics job. This could be in the form of:
1.) Taking a long time before giving feedback to a candidate after an interview.
If no feedback is given to a candidate within a day or two, the human nature of people is to feel that the company did not like them. Once they are convinced that the company didn’t like them, they start picking apart all the negative things they saw about the company and why it wasn’t a good fit for them anyway. Once a candidate has gone done this road mentally, it’s tough to change their mind.
2.) The next interview might be several weeks out.
3.) Too many steps in the interviewing process.
4.) Decision by committee – it is rare to have many people agree on one candidate.
5.) Having a quota to interview x amount of candidates before making a decision.
If the best candidate was interviewed first, you could be in trouble if you have several more first round interviews.
6.) Taking too long to get an offer to the candidate you want. In the plastics industry, if you are pursuing someone with a technical background, the odds are good that they are interviewing with several companies or talking to several plastics recruiters. I’ve seen candidates pass up the job they really want because another company moved faster on an offer. They simply could not pass another offer up not knowing if the other offer would ever come.

Dan Regovich - Plastics Recruiter & Plastic Packaging RecruiterAJ Augur Group, LLC440-357-7600www.ajaugur.comdregovich@ajaugur.com
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Formerly with RSI Recruiter Solutions International, VP Plastics & Filtration.Within the plastics industry, I service companies with the following technologies: injection molding, blow molding, extrusion blow molding, injection blow molding, multilayer blow molding, thermoforming, cast extrusion, profile extrusion, extruded film, blown film, plastic film, rotational molding/rotomolding, plastic sheet, calendaring, casting, compression/transfer molding, foam molding, pultrusion, resin, color and compounding,
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