Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen!

In our over ten years of experience in physician and executive leadership recruitment, we have learned firsthand the types of critical mistakes that a client unknowingly makes that "blow the deal" with a potential candidate. One such mistake is having too making cooks in the kitchen; all working to cook the same meal, but each following a very different recipe. These well meaning sous-chefs miss no opportunity to secretly throw their preferred ingredients into the mixing bowl, certain they will enhance the end product. In a nutshell, the communication of mixed messages to candidates, by your team during interviews, is detrimental to success. Even worse, are rogue individuals who, with good intentions, take it upon themselves to call candidates behind the scenes, and who often times end up leaving negative or false impressions that greatly undermine the search. This happens more often than you may realize and many times results in a candidate withdrawing their candidacy without the client knowing the real reason why.…Read More