Appeal To A Hire Power

Two interviews, a Zoom call with the CEO, a pilot project, a chat with HR to test compatibility”, another Q/A. Why is landing ajob sucha circus right now?

- Dipanjan Sinha

If companies can lay off employees in minutes, why is it taking them months to hire people these days? It’s now common to go through a month of back and forth: Three technical rounds, a separate round with a manager, 20 days of silence, and yet another round with the human resources team. Some employers have also been assigning work projects as tests. Hiring cycles are long, tiresome, often downright unfair. How did we get here?

IN AN AGE WHEN A CANDIDATE MIGHT BE A LAWYER, CONTENT CREATOR, LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST AND PODCASTER ALL AT ONCE, SINGLE INTERVIEWS BARELY SCRATCH THE SURFACE.

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