As a hiring manager asked to give feedback to rejected candidates, what should i say if the panel said "you" were a bad culture fit?

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Bad culture fit is not actionable feedback. If you can’t give actionable feedback then i suggest not giving any.

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You can also take the cop out of we really like you but there was another candidate with more experience.

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I was informed my “personality” was not a fit… be careful with that one, cause it was BS and was most certainly not the issue.

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Give as little feedback as possible. I understand why a candidate would ask for feedback, however please understand that feedback can be used against the company and taken as discrimination. I would be very cautious with what you provide to the rejected candidate.

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Exactlyyyyyy. Dont do yourself a disservice and put yourself or the company in a difficult spot. You give feedback they dont like and im sure at some point the company will get blasted on social and youll be the scapegoat. Whoever told you to give feedback in your company clearly is misguided. I would do it at all if i was you. HR can respond to rejections if ghey choose, me = no.

I recently hired someone for my team, and as part of the housekeeping on the project HR wants me to give feedback for some of the late round rejections.

Some are easy. "If you had better technical skill (specifically in...) you'd be a stronger candidate, etc..."

But there's one person who we rejected because two people on the hiring panel (candidate talked to 4 people while on-site), said point blank they thought he wasn't going to be a person they wanted to work with.

They said things like, "he doesn't seem humble at all."

I personally liked the candidate, but as a team we agreed on another as our best choice.

So, imagine that was you what could I possibly tell you that might make you better?

I've wracked my brain about it, wondering even if a hiring manager straight up said, "you didn't seem humble and we think that's a key trait we want from our team members," what I would do with that.

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HR wants you to gove feedback??? “As housekeeping,” are you sure HR isnt meaning for you to give them internal feedback directly? Not to the candidate???

If the feedback is unbecoming it doesn’t serve you or the candidate to tell them. I made the mistake once of being honest and the candidate got indignant. Unless it is simple like lack of experience in comparison, my standard response is after careful consideration the hiring team decided to go with another candidate and tell them to keep an eye on our careers page for future opportunities. If they ask for more I do not respond.

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