The final stage of hiring requires close collaboration with your recruiter to ensure a smooth offer process and a positive candidate experience.
Your role:
Final Feedback: Provide your recruiter with a clear "go" decision and a summary of the candidate's strengths.
Compensation: Work with your recruiter to determine the appropriate salary range and discuss any flexibility. Your recruiter will liaise with Reward to ensure alignment of market rates and internal compensation structures. If required, provide a business justification if you believe the offer needs to be at the high end of the range.
The "Pitch": The offer is a final sales opportunity. Ensure your recruiter knows the key selling points that matter most to the candidate (e.g., team, project, growth).
Next steps:
Offer Call: Your recruiter will verbally extend the offer. You can join this call if you wish. We will aim to get verbal confirmation on the call. Where possible we will agree on a start date, notice period depending.
Offer Letter: After the call, the formal offer letter is sent via Pinpoint for e-signature with a 1 week deadline for a decision.
Background Checks: After the offer is signed, your recruiter will trigger background checks (e.g., ID, employment verification), which may vary by location.
Employment Contract: The recruiter and People Partner will prepare and send the employment contract for e-signature, officially starting the onboarding process.
Allowing Time for Decision-Making
Give candidates enough time to consider an offer, as rushing them can lead to them backing out later.
If a candidate has questions or wants to modify the offer, your recruitment partner will work with you to manage the situation.
Managing Offer Adjustments
If a salary increase or change to the offer is requested and falls outside of the approved budget, assess if the change can be accommodated within your team’s structure. If needed, consult with the Reward Team (Guy Smith & Nathan Dinsley).
If the proposed increase exceeds 10% or £10,000 (or equivalent in the approved currency), we will need to take the revised offer to the Hiring Board for approval.
Start Dates
To allow for the completion of all required documents and equipment setup, there are minimum notice periods for the required start dates:
USA: 2 weeks from contract signing to start date
All other countries: 3 weeks from contract signing to start date
To ensure a consistent experience for all new hires, start dates are standardized to every Monday and Tuesday.
Start dates exceptions per country (remaining start dates in 2025)October, 6: no onboarding in Australia
October, 13: no onboarding in Spain
December, 1: no onboarding in Romania
December, 8: no onboarding in Spain
December, 22 and 29: no onboarding globally
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