Here’s the scenario:
You have an opening and you do your recruiting thing. You find a candidate, and lo and behold, they are great!
What luck, you think to yourself. The hiring manager is going to thrilled. Boy, my job is easy!
Do I need to even go on?
You set up the interview with the hiring manager. She also thinks the candidate is great. Done deal, you think to yourself. Then “it” happens.
The hiring manager — she does that thing they do, those hiring manager types — says that statement that we really don’t want to hear:
“Let’s take a look at a couple more before we decide.”
Bam!
Just like that, this job went from being easy to being horrible! You found her Mr. (or Mrs.) Right and now she wants to see two more Mr. Rights! Doesn’t she know, Mr. Right only comes around once!?
Grizzled Recruiting Veterans know what I’m talking about. Finding Mr. Right too fast is a killer. So, how do you get around this?
There are two ways, neither of which is preferred over the other:
Either way, getting a hiring manager to understand the market — and what they have — can sometimes be a sales job!
Too many hiring managers believe you can present them a slate of Mr. and Mrs. Right! But in reality, you know that you got lucky finding one Mr. or Mrs. Right – and the chances of finding more are slim to none.
Ah, hiring managers … you can’t live with them and you can’t legally shoot them.
This was originally published on Tim Sackett’s blog, The Tim Sackett Project.