“ultimately I made offers to two candidates both of which I had had strong gut feelings about very early, which was rewarding but also highly frustrating.”—I hope this comment doesn’t come across as incredibly mean, but, are you getting that from notes made at the time? When I find myself thinking “this is what I thought we’d do all along”, I start to suspect I’ve conveniently rewritten my memories of what I thought. Do you have a sense of how many candidates you had similar strong positive gut feelings about?
“ultimately I made offers to two candidates both of which I had had strong gut feelings about very early, which was rewarding but also highly frustrating.”—I hope this comment doesn’t come across as incredibly mean, but, are you getting that from notes made at the time? When I find myself thinking “this is what I thought we’d do all along”, I start to suspect I’ve conveniently rewritten my memories of what I thought. Do you have a sense of how many candidates you had similar strong positive gut feelings about?
Thank you for a very helpful comment!
haha—good question. And yes, from notes.