About to abandon a job offer? Consider this first
Stella Thomas, Head of Talent Acquisition, Tally Solutions, a leading business software provider, says it is important to understand the nuances involved in taking such a complicated decision.
First of all, there are two sides to the story. On one hand, companies face a huge challenge if people do not join, especially at the last moment, and they have to restart the hiring process. Thomas says that it is unprofessional to decline an offer after accepting it, and it can affect the candidate’s personal brand to some extent. Furthermore, the organisation concerned may not have a positive orientation towards such candidates when they reply later to the company.
She says, “We do witness multiple instances of candidates declining an already accepted offer. In the recruitment world, this nomenclature is termed as renege. Recently, we experienced a similar situation with one of our tech hires. The candidate declined the offer on the day of joining. Any previous experiences do not prepare the talent acquisition team to deal with such situations.”
While talking about the difficulties faced by employers, she explains that one of the challenges a product company of their size faces is that there is a provision to roll out only one offer per requisition. Hence, it is necessary to have a continuous flow of pipelines ready to mitigate such challenges.
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“It is also essential to give strong feedback to candidates who renege at the last moment and, in principle, we do not encourage this behaviour as an organisation,” she says.
Let us now look at this situation from the candidate’s perspective. There could be circumstances that might make this decision
