Welcome to Manager Tools. A Hall of Fame cast How to Turn Down a Job Candidate.

Mark is on vacation this week, so today we're publishing a Hall of Fame cast.

Now we've been telling you all year long just how hot the job market is and hiring is difficult.

That doesn't mean you should drop your standards and if you don't you're going to be rejecting

unsuitable candidates.

So we're providing this Hall of Fame cast to help you do it well when you have to do it.

Now it's from some time ago.

Originally it was two parts so we're mashing the two together so there may be some

artifacts associated with kind of taking two casts and putting it together so I

hope you'll forgive us for that. There you go. I hope you enjoy it and we'll be back next week with the second part of negative feedback pushback examples.

Welcome to Manager Tools.

Today's topic How to to turn down a job candidate. Part one, here we go.

At the end of the interviewing process for those who you are not going to hire there's kind of one last and surprisingly

difficult step for some managers to tell people that you won't be offering them.

It's one of my least favorite parts of the interviewing process, perhaps second only to

interviewing candidates who are not qualified for the job.

Or who are not good at interviewing.

Well, it's particularly hard because you're trying to get as many candidates as possible.

And if you're doing many of the things that we suggest in terms of phone interviews and screening people down.

By the time you bring people into interview,

hopefully you've got a list of people that are really, really good.

And unfortunately, you only have one position.

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