How Recruiters Steal Your Top People: Hiding Institutional Friction

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
You hire someone terrific . . . and then reality sets in for them because the hiring manager and their team hid something critical.

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Another way you lose your top people is everyone in the hiring process, all the managers, all the staff, misrepresent the position to people. It’s not an overt lie, but they forget to mention all the institutional friction that interferes with someone getting the job done.

Thus, a person walks in. They start their new position, and they discover the truth about the environment, how hard it is to get things done, how difficult some of the people are, why it is the last four people who sat at that particular desk left to go to other organizations.

Institutional friction and withholding that from people may get you short-term hires, but they’re not going to be long-term employees because you’ve lost. You’ve lost their trust. The manager has lost their ability to be convincing. There is a lot more at TheBigGameHunter.us Go there and go exploring.

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS Career Advice globally. That can involve job search, hiring staff, management, leadership, career transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. Schedule a discovery call at my website, www.TheBigGameHunter.us

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