I’m flooded by job candidates calling for more information
A reader writes:
My firm has a really small variety of everlasting workers however we make use of a lot of entry-level seasonal staff at a few factors within the yr. We don’t have landlines, solely firm cell telephones. The telephone quantity on our web site, brochures, and so on. is my quantity and job candidates usually name my quantity, asking for extra particulars about compensation, {qualifications}, job duties, and so on. earlier than they’ve been contacted for an interview.
On the one hand, I don’t need to be a kind of snooty HR folks, and I do know this may be the primary job for lots of those people. However I’m not in HR or the hiring supervisor for these jobs, many of those particulars are within the job posting, and truthfully, it’s simply annoying. The system is fairly automated — inside three weeks, they’re both contacted for an interview or despatched a rejection — so it’s not like we’re leaving folks hanging.
How a lot ought to I speak to candidates after they name? And is there a way I can gently educate younger and keen job seekers about what’s and isn’t acceptable?
I reply this query over at Inc. immediately, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.