Revisiting Neglected Areas of the Hiring Process

When you're facing 10 open positions for hard-to-find roles, trying to please a finnicky hiring manager, and haranguing a slow moving HR department to get an offer letter together, the different stages of the hiring funnel all seem to blur together into one indistiguishable, insurmountable blob. While any time spent away from the actual act of recruiting can be costly, if you can take some time to revisit and streamline the hiring process, your future self will thank you. Let's take a step back and stop missing the forest for the trees by assessing some under-visited areas of the hiring funnel.