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The Multiple Interviews Problem
I met a woman in Chicago at a trade show years ago who had 16 interviews for one job, and the job made about $70,000/year. That seemed like overkill for a sub-six-figure job, but about three months after I met her, a company based in Tampa interviewed me eight times for a job that paid roughly the same. I didn’t get it. I saw an article during early COVID about how said company was struggling. Vindicatively, I laughed.
This is such a common topic that semi-prominent YouTubers are doing videos on it now:
In 2018, the average time to hire for professional, white-collar roles was about 24–30 weeks. That’s insane, as it’s half a year, and if you’ve ever set foot inside an American white-collar office for 30 seconds, you know that all anyone does is talk about how busy they are. If they’re busy, and they need people to help them be more balanced, then why are we taking 30 weeks to hire?
That’s the main question most people want to understand. Those answers are kind of simple:
