Mike DaykhinHey! It’s Mike, founder of WIP. I’ve been waiting for the final push to start a blog for a while now. And that push came in the form of a letter from the recruiter using WIP after the company rejected their candidate. So, read our emails and, hopefully, you will better understand why we are building WIP and how we operate. Enjoy! 😎
[MD]: I blurred the name and the email, and all the rest is unedited (except for some typos corrected and formatting added.
Hi *****,
I appreciate your involvement very much, really, thank you!
Let me address your last comment first:
Yes, there have been no new job postings lately.
There are some reasons for that. I can’t disclose them all, but we never stopped, and something is cookin’.
Our approach requires a mind shift for many corporate recruiters.
And it’s deliberate on our end.
Doing something (hiring in our case) like everybody else is a road to nowhere. Lost by default, before the game started.
We require companies to be as responsible as referrers like yourself. Make financial commitments, provide feedback, keep us informed all along, no ghosting tolerated!
It’s not easy to sell, but this is the WIP’s way!
Regarding the candidate you’ve submitted.
I understand your frustration, trust me, I do.
We are not in control of companies’ hiring processes or selection approaches. And no platform can do that. I’ve known, heard, and read about hundreds of cases where a 100% matching candidate was not hired.
But in your case, we promised and delivered within our no-ghosting policy.
As an experienced recruiter, you know that companies are bound by the labor laws around the globe.
This made them extremely cautious with providing meaningful feedback to candidates or even partners.
And I get it, very few types of public good (which detailed feedback undoubtedly is), can be worth a lost lawsuit with significant fines.
And yes, our hiring partners (or clients, you may call them) share with us a bit more than I would dare to share (see, NDA).
This knowledge helps WIP to be more friendly towards referrers.
Like in your case (my lawyer will have ‘the talk’ with me after that), while your candidate’s profile looked very promising professionally, it triggered an extremely popular industrial bias, and here comes rejection.
My team argued that you had to consider it before referring, and the stake is burned, but I decided to give you a “next-referral-stake-free card”.
There’s no need for 100% matching candidates. And 100% is not the case at all.
But we encourage our referrers to be as thoughtful, considerate, and industry-aware as possible.
The $20 stake we require is a token of that and nothing more.
*****, I hope you have a better grasp of our approach to change hiring and will continue using WIP.
Wish you the best,
Mike
Founder / CEO
WIP [Work Identity Protocol]