The candidates you didn't hire
Two or three people almost as good as the one you chose, and most companies never speak to them again.
In most hiring rounds there are two or three candidates behind the chosen one who are almost as capable, and most companies never extend the same concern to them that they give the person they hired.
Most of them are good enough to hire somewhere else, possibly at your company, six months from now, if anyone bothered to stay in touch.
The touch itself does not need to be much. A relationship costs almost nothing to maintain and a great deal to rebuild from nothing once you actually need it.
What you get
- A tracker table for near-miss candidates from your last several hiring rounds
- A prompt for what the next touch actually looks like, and when
- A note on naming who owns the list so it doesn't go stale
Where should we send it?
One email with the worksheet. You can unsubscribe from anything else in one click.
On its way
Check your inbox. If it has not landed in a minute or two, look in promotions or spam, and add sam@startuppatterns.com to your contacts so the rest arrive.
Adapted from the Leadership chapter of The Mindful Product Company by Sam McAfee.