Hiring Is ‘Marketing,’ Too: Treat Applicants Like Your Best Customers

Hiring Is 'Marketing,' Too: Treat Applicants Like Your Best CustomersDid you know you are marketing your firm when you are hiring people? So, the way that you treat candidates, start to finish, can impact whether or not they become — or remain — good customers.

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Sometimes prospective employees will come to your company because they are satisfied customers, and they think that your company is a good place to work. They may have heard great things about your company. Don’t lose a prospective customer because you treat a prospective employee badly during the hiring process. As a business school professor, I hear examples from my undergrads and MBA students every day about a hiring process gone wrong. These bad experiences get told and retold and create a negative impression about you and your company…

Hiring Is ‘Marketing,’ Too: Treat Applicants Like Your Best Customers

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