Timeline for Is it ethical/professional to give feedback to a candidate during an interview?
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 5:21 | comment | added | Stephen | @JoeStrazzere I guess when you've had interviewers "disagree", I'd expect it to have been "I really don't think we should hire". A "No" in an interview would be more like "cannot hire" - have you overruled those before? | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 5:19 | comment | added | Stephen | Looks to me like downvotes with real substance. @JoeStrazzere - can you provide some actual reasons why it's a bad answer. Just because something is common and you work a certain way doesn't mean it's best. What are you protecting against? If a person can't explain the basics of their resume achievements (at a couple of levels below what they're applying for), would you continue interviews and possibly hire? (If I said No to a candidate, I'd start considering saying "No" to the company if you said Yes). Perhaps it's just that my market is so tight we have to look in the rough for diamonds. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 20:17 | comment | added | user37746 | @R.M. OK, I guess I read the Answer's emphasis on being able to say "no", and I ran with it. Maybe this is an uncommon scenario. Having experienced going from a very favorable interview ("we'll contact you in 2 days") to being told yes 2 months later, I felt that quick decisions are probably best for everyone. I wonder where my particular case got hung up? For 2 months? They are fortunate that no one else hired me in the meantime. (All the other folks were much faster at "Getting To No" apparently.) | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | R.M. | @nocomprende The way I've seen it done is that the others don't actually give straight up/down yes/no recommendations. Instead they provide an evaluation on their area of expertise. "I was impressed by her above-average problem solving skills." "He was unsure of details when discussing 1099 forms." etc. The positive and negative evaluations go into a pile with the resume and letters of recommendations and it's the hiring manager who actually figures out how to combine things. A strong negative (or positive) evaluation can tip the scales, but only if the other factors are balanced. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | user37746 | @JoeStrazzere So, that would be Consultative decisionmaking vs Consensus. If one of your people said No, would that be it then? In other words, they can disqualify someone, but only you can finally accept them? Consensus can hang up in a disagreement, unless someone has Executive power. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | user37746 | @JoeStrazzere I wonder if this is a situation where "One No is worth a Thousand Yesses"? In other words, if anyone in the process says No, it's no? | |
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 0:11 | history | answered | Stephen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |