How To Give Good Recruitment Feedback

How To Give Good Recruitment Feedback






Be firm when giving recruitment feedback or interview advice

This is the last feedback tip in our series of six articles looking at feedback. Here we look at the importance of a recruiter or employer being firm and precise when giving feedback to a job candidate. It will only help them in their future search for work.

When it comes to offering your feedback focussing on the positive is all very well and good, but don't let yourself be influenced into giving feedback that is more positive than your actual impressions of the job candidate in question.  This does nobody any good at all and can actually confuse a job applicant into thinking they should have been given the job they applied for.

 Be firm in your feedback and be specific and precise. It's often tempting to give exclusively positive feedback out of sympathy if the candidate hasn't been successful, but you'll be doing them a bigger favour in the long run if you give honest feedback and make the person aware of the weaknesses they need to correct. It is possible to be sympathetic without being soft.

It is actually better to give no feedback at all than to give feedback which is misleading since the latter can damage a job applicant's success in job hunting in the future.  And don't forget when doing this to stick to factual observation - describe what you saw at the job interview or in the CV or job application.

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