What to do when candidates want to wait to compare offers
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If you stay in the recruiting game long enough, inevitably you’ll run into a scenario where a candidate you are representing gets to offer stage with your client, but wants to wait to see what the other companies they are interviewing with are prepared to offer before making their final decision. If you’re working with pragmatic decision makers, which software engineers (who I most recruit for) tend to be, this can be a difficult thing to content with, especially in a market like we’re seeing in 2021 with multiple offers being made to candidates with higher-than-normal comp plans.
What to do when candidates want to wait to compare offers
What to do when candidates want to wait to…
What to do when candidates want to wait to compare offers
If you stay in the recruiting game long enough, inevitably you’ll run into a scenario where a candidate you are representing gets to offer stage with your client, but wants to wait to see what the other companies they are interviewing with are prepared to offer before making their final decision. If you’re working with pragmatic decision makers, which software engineers (who I most recruit for) tend to be, this can be a difficult thing to content with, especially in a market like we’re seeing in 2021 with multiple offers being made to candidates with higher-than-normal comp plans.