Week 1 hiring recap / update for Director of Marketing / VP of Marketing: Insane amounts of talent in our funnel and the competition is real. I could hire any one of 10 candidates today (only 4 full days in) and Misen will do great. While our main focus is finding the best candidate for the role in the next 5 business days, I’m especially pleased with the positive responses (98%!) from my rejection emails. 348 applicants since 6/10 39 new 89 (25% of total) still in consideration 26 (22% of consideration) invited for 15 min chat 25 (96% of invited) completed 15 min interview 194 rejected For candidates: If you haven't heard from me yet, you will today or tomorrow, which is yes, Saturday. Many HR folks have told me over the years to schedule those replies for 9AM Monday. As a candidate, do you want to wait until the next business day or hear feedback as soon as it’s ready? Yep, me too. My team doesn’t get weekend emails from me, but candidates sure will. Next Steps: 1) Complete review of consideration candidates and invite those that pass to 15 min chats. 2) Review 15 min chats (I owe you all responses!) and move top candidates to a 30 min nerd-out session Monday - Wednesday. I’m traveling for work Tuesday - Thursday so this can only be when I’m at a desk. I believe interviewing anyone when not seated and focused is disrespectful. What we’ve done right: Review every application myself and respond personally to every applicant. There’s 2 wins here: 1) By reading every application myself, I’m confident we’re getting our selection process right. I know many applicants won’t agree with me - us marketers are a confident bunch - but our funnel is so packed with talent and it’s tough competition. 2) Out of 194 rejection emails I have sent, 113 replied back thanking me for the feedback and/or the quick response. 2 responses were negative but I never expect this to be 0. This is why we put in the time during hiring weeks. It’s what I would want as a candidate, it’s the right thing to do, and even though they didn’t get the job, we have 100+ more Misen fans now. What we could have done better: 1) Get back to candidates quicker. Hiring is unfortunately not the only critical thing on my plate this week, and these would look far better if that was the case. ~25 got an answer in 24 hours ~50 got an answer in 48 hours 100% will get an answer in 6 days 2) I missed an interview! Not sure what happend but it never made it to my calendar. Not blaming you Ashby :) If you have feedback, let me have it! 😶
Beau Billington
6mo
Love the feedback loop here, Michael- a lot of candidates biggest complaints are simply about not getting feedback. The good ones want feedback so they can learn and do better next time. I target same day feedback if negative, but I am not working nearly at this candidate scale as we do not leverage job boards. And with the negative feedback I have found being super direct is generally appreciated. This is impressive leadership!
Will Eagle
4mo
Applied but never heard back; did I slip through the cracks? Did the VP get hired? Love the insight into the process. Great work that you just love to see.
Cooper Gill
6mo
Creative Director here, so not applying. But I do want to give you a 🙏 for being human and respectful of the ask you put out into the world. A great brand you are starting and leadership like this will take it far 🔪🚀
Michael Mahoney, this is the embodiment of raising the bar for the C-suite cabinet. Not just talking about it but really walking the walk. I commend your pursuit of excellence and just plain and simple being a good human.
Steven Senzer
6mo
Michael Mahoney , love seeing these updates, it’s a really fantastic experience you’re providing for candidates
Chris Albers
6mo
I just applied, Michael. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Chris
That's what I do. I sell, and I market things......
6moI didn’t apply cause I don’t think I’d even be considered. In a world where for me cooking is a passion, I’m linked to the art of blade making, I deal with chefs and restaurant owners and have a connection to that F&B side, and I have a very strong b2c and performance marketing background of over 20 years. People with my Swiss Army knife set of skills are often overlooked by companies like this who are more corporate, who don’t consider people outside the box, who don’t try or even want to see past a resume. The fact is the corporate hiring process is flawed, passion, knowledge, and skill can’t always be seen on a computer screen or by an AI hiring process. Also you’re at the mercy of your HR for something they know nothing about and aren’t skilled in. Would you have a janitor do the interviewing for an engineering job or look at resumes and ultimately know who is more qualified for a job they themselves have never done? You talk about your interview process and give updates but rarely or atleast to me and from what I’ve seen don’t reply to your tags on your posts here. This to me is equivalent to saying great job everyone but I don’t care even tho I say I do and talk about family and company culture and then throw a pizza party.