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Yes, objectively. You’re lucky you found a candidate willing to consider a contract role at all. Give them a week and move on if they reject your offer.
If a candidate needs 10 days to make a decision, then they are interviewing, and your offer is most likely not their first choice. If you have other great candidates in the process, I'll suggest keeping then warm because chances are if candidate A gets a better offer, they will decline and you'll have to start your process all over again. The average time i'll say to give candidates would be 3-5 days. Anything over that is wasting your time because they have other options, and unfortunately, your offer is not their top choice.
100%. Agree with this. Also my backup candidate can’t wait 2 weeks for decisioning too. There are likely others in process and while candidate A might be the top choice. candidate B as a backup will get the offer if A declines.
💯 Especially in this market. 10 days means it’s not your first choice. 3 days is typical.
And though I understand it’s contract and not permanent, there are plenty of people who would jump at the chance for a 1-year contract.
3-5 days, yes. 10 days, no. I want to be considerate of everyone involved, and not just top candidate.
yes if they were my top candidate by far