Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! We are pleased that you had a positive overall experience interviewing with us. Thank you for your interest in GFI!

Hello, Thank you for your feedback. We’ll be glad to address your concerns. We appreciate your interest in GFI and the time you took to engage in our hiring process. Indeed, it’s lengthy but we find--and most applicants agree--that it provides us an opportunity to get to know each other to ensure we make informed hiring decisions. We explain the steps in the process to applicants when we send the first invitation to complete a written assignment. You applied for the position on October 8, the day we posted the job opening. The job closed on December 2 (which was noted on the posting). We notified you of our decision on January 8, approximately five weeks after the position closed. Without the holiday breaks, we would have finalized this position in less than one month. We welcome suggestions from applicants. As you may recall, our executive director promptly responded to your suggestions in writing and thanked you for offering them. More generally, we survey staff anonymously every six months, and one of the questions that we care deeply about and do well on is the degree to which we welcome team input on all aspects of GFI operations. We also welcome that from applicants. In addition and with regard to the hiring process specifically, we often survey our hiring team and new employees to solicit input to further improve our process. Our hiring teams spend considerable time reading every finalist’s resume, cover letter, written assignment, and timed project. In fact, all members of our hiring teams are required to complete scorecards for every applicant assessment and interview. Everyone on the hiring team read your resume, written assignment, and timed project. We create a list of the character traits and skills we’re seeking in every position and ensure we assess them at least once through written work or interviews. We build our interview questions based on any remaining issues we’d like to address with applicants. You were applying for the finance manager role, of course, and it’s true that we have not decided whether the finance manager should report to the General Counsel or Director of Operations. As we explained to you, that will be determined based on consultation with our new GC. We apologize that you didn’t have a positive experience. We canceled your final interview to respect your time as the first two interviewers decided they would prefer not to extend an offer. We agree providing short notice on a cancellation isn’t ideal, so we’re going to revisit the practice. Interviewing is not a guarantee that we will request references, which is the final step in the process. Please feel free to contact me if you have additional suggestions you’d like to share. Thank you again for your interest in GFI, Reannon Branchesi Director of Operations and Human Resources