Idk how many of you are involved in HR or hiring employees, but hypothetically let’s say you have an open position. You evaluate the talent in the applicant pool. You select the applicants that most meet the needs of your team to complete the interview process. Ideally there is one applicant that best fits and you offer that applicant the position. That applicant verbally accepts your offer.
At that point, do you continue to interview and form relationships with the applicants that you didn’t choose for the position? No. You continue with the hiring process and move on to other things. Whether you’re in HR/Administration or the HFC at ND, if you’ve got a “commitment” from your top applicant, you don’t take time to continue to interview other applicants. You don’t have time for that.
I’ve had it happen a few times where we’ve got an applicant who accepted a job, but continues to look at what’s out there and inevitably they found an organization offering a shiny sign on bonus, but when you weigh all the salary, benefits, etc, our organization was by far superior…sound familiar? Tommy and MF worked the process as you’re supposed to and now they’re stuck trying to form and reform relationships that they didn’t need to when they had a commitment from their guy.
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