Making hiring decisions

The actual hiring decision involves a lot of people: team members, managers, HR representatives, and even executives. It's important to be organized to expedite communication between all of these parties.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, individual interviewers should be making their hire or no-hire recommendations as quickly as possible after they actually interview a candidate. Get individual feedback from interviewers before they discuss it with each other to preserve their unbiased impressions. Encourage interviewers to give written feedback, especially if you know it's going to take a few days (or weeks) to actually get the hiring approval.

When you have the interview feedback in hand, the final decision-making process will vary from company to company. You may find yourself in the position of translating all of the interview feedback into a definite hire or no-hire decision. Negative feedback from interviewers is inevitable; decide what your threshold is...