Truth 53Don't tell candidates why they weren't selected
Have you ever experienced a situation in which you received calls from pesky candidates, begging you for information about why they didn't get the job? You start out trying to be nice—after all, you've read the advice in job hunting books that, as a candidate, you should ask "why" when you aren't selected for a job. But, after a while as the one doing the hiring, after three or four of these conversations, you feel as though the life is being sucked out of you. Depending on your own personal endurance, it doesn't take too long before you are tempted to make your answer short—cruelly short: "We just didn't like you," or "You have no personality," or "You have last week's garlic on your breath." ...
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