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The hard thing about being told you’re wrong isn’t that you messed up this one time. It’s that you’ve been doing it wrong, over and over. A habitual, systematic screw up. Not a one time blunder.
When you’re pot committed to a bad process, it’s a harder pill to swallow. And not accepting and making a change perpetuates the cycle.
And this happens in hiring. A lot. What does it sound like?
Companies who struggle to hire:
“But that’s our process.”
“Candidates keep backing out of interviews.”
“It’s always worked for us in the past.”
Job seekers who struggle to land an offer:
“They didn’t know what they were talking about.”
“They didn’t ask the right questions.”
“I knew way more than they did.”
And then there’s recruiters. Every recruiter out there has had their head bitten off by someone who didn’t like their feedback. It sucks. And they’d be lying if they said it didn’t make them think twice the next time.
Which compounds the problem further.
The fix is simple. Get over it. You’re probably doing something wrong right now. We all are. Be happy when someone tells you.
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