Why does the hiring process move so slowly? My team has been understaffed for months, but it still took 9 weeks to get budget approval to hire someone. I was doing a little headhunting during this time because I wanted to have a candidate lined up as soon as I got approval. However, it took so long to get this approval that my top candidate gave up on waiting and accepted another position. Why doesn’t upper management realize that moving slowly during the hiring process is a liability?

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Honestly it feels like they are trying to get as much work out of the remaining employees as possible before committing to a new employee. Sometimes I feel like they try to make the process slow so they can justify NOT replacing the employee, and just absorbing the work into the current staff.

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I always assume upper management understands the danger of slow walking things, but they view it as a risk management proposition. Right now a lot of organizations are hesitant to do much hiring, so things can grind to a virtual halt. Obviously, companies that move faster have an advantage, such as in your case, where they poached your top candidate. But until a lot of uncertainty gets resolved a lot of top management will probably continue to move cautiously and be wary of adding any additional people to the payroll.

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