The Importance of Applicant Closure

So let's jump into – so there are two things that I know in the whole history of me being involved in helping to improve candidate experience that I have – shouted from the rooftops on and have learned, of course, from the best like Jerry Crispin and Elaine Orler and Ed Newman, who founded the Talent Board, which I ran that now is part of Surveil.

But two things, all candidates should have acknowledgement of their application and all candidates should have closure.

Yes.

If you're not going to pursue them any further, whatever that is in the process, they need to have definitive closure.

Just those two things at a bare minimum.

Yeah.

that they should have.

Now, you, as we jump into this topic for today's podcast, you have been involved in this kind of, in a group that Mr. Crispin has put together, Jerry Crispin, those of you who don't know, co-founder of Career Crossroads, co-founder of TalentWord that I used to run, the Candy Research Program that is now part of Surveil, longtime candidate experience advocate.

And recruiting and hiring advocate too.

And, you know, got his chops at J&J, Johnson & Johnson.

J&J, yeah.

He's a former practitioner.

Oh, totally a practitioner.

He's been

on both sides of the house.

Yes.

Part of Shaker Recruitment for a long time.

Exactly, exactly.

Both sides

of the house.

Tell us about this group and what it is.

So, and I think Jerry's taken some swings at this over the years.

Yes, he has.

I was going to add color to that after you talked about it.

Has some real passion about some standards we just don't seem to have in recruitment.