Hiring Slow - Would You Hire Someone that Didn't Look in to Your Company?

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I'm a part of breakthrough academy and they really recommend hiring slow, so being really picky about who you hire.

With that, comes creating a lot of barriers that the candidate essentially needs to "fight through" to get to that next stage and ultimately be hired. I do some of these things now but I had one thing pop up on a few interviews and I was wondering if ya'll think I'm being too hard headed when it comes to this.

Keep in mind these candidates applied where they had to submit pictures of their work - then they filled out a lengthy survey about job skills and abilities. The first interview, the first question is "Did you look in to our company at all?" - most the time I'm being told no. LOL For me that's crazy but it also makes me want to just hang up the phone. Why should I care about you if you don't care about the thing you're going to commit most of your day toward? My job postings are pretty long and descriptive but would you automatically disqualify someone why hasn't even been to your website?

anthonysalazar · Answer

Honestly for me it's a huge red flag when someone doesn't take at least 5 minutes to do some basic research on the company they're interviewing with. It shows a lack of initiative and attention to detail to tip the scale in their favor. But I would say for every 10 people I interview, maybe only 1-2 of them will actually Google our business name or what we do lol. That's why the first question I ask on an interview is "What can you tell me about Salazar Scoops?" lol. I think out of the 3 technicians I currently have, only one of them actually did some basic research and the other 2 had no idea what we did but they're still great team members!

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