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Why You Need To Coach Your Candidate

The recruitment landscape has changed and if you haven’t sense it, this may wipe you out.

I used to place candidates who are much prepared.

These days, due to the focus on mental health, work-life balance, burnout avoidance and so on, you get more candidates who are taking a more laidback approach.

I don’t see how such attitude can help with career progression or better health. Burnout is not immediate and more likely when one doesn’t have a fire burning in their belly. (i.e. lack of motivation)

Increasingly, we get candidates who attended the interviews half prepared or unprepared despite already providing them insights and resources to reference from.

They came back with feedback “I think I didn’t answer well.”

When asked why, the answer took my breath away. “I didn’t go into detail during my preparation.”

They have time but they don’t know how to prioritize the usage.

This is a growing problem among people and I accrue the reason to distraction.

Our world is filled with distraction. It’s easier to find someone who would doom scroll for hours on their phone on entertainment than a candidate who is willing to carve out 1 hour of their life to prepare for their next career pitstop.

The modern day lifestyle has evolved us.

As a recruiter, you can’t overlook this because things are not the same as before.

So what can be done to even the odds is to coach your candidates in detail.

Guide them through the thought process of preparing for the interview and they will thank you for it later. It’s also helping yourself because you are not in the game of luck.

Every successful interviewee is founded on the basis of preparation. There is no question about it.

An unprepared candidate is more costly than no candidate because your reputation suffers a hit every time an unprepared candidate takes to the interview stage.

Slowly but surely, your client will lose faith in you to deliver great candidates.

They will slow down in their collaboration and your proposed candidates won’t inspire confidence.

Your client will eventually leave you for another but don’t let the above situation be the reason that accelerates their decision to go with another agency.

Coaching your candidates is the solution and while you are at it, you can also build a secondary business offering.

p.s. It’s frustrating to work with candidates who behave thus but this is a generational issue due to the lifestyle we collectively created. DM “Career Coaching” on LinkedIn to get my 1:1 coaching on how to prepare your candidates for success.

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