Truth 34Have a vacancy to fill? You're already too late.
Here's the typical scenario: a top employee in a critical position gives notice. The first thing you do is start the replacement process.
You're already too late. If you've waited until you're officially given notice to start thinking about finding an essential employee's replacement, you've been caught flat-footed. After all, employees casually browse the job market all the time for possible next steps forward or up. (In fact, you probably do, too.) So it's only fair (not to mention strategically vital) that you at least have some ideas—even contacts—ready to deploy when you're given the departing employee's two-week notice.
Just as it takes time to find a new job, hiring managers are ...
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