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"Full day" absolutely matters though, especially if you want to attract passive candidates. If I'm unemployed, then full day is fine.
If I'm really keen to get out of my current job, or really keen to work for you, then I might do it.
But if I'm just exploring opportunities, or I have other options in progress, then I'm not taking a day off just to interview. With any interview when it might be really obvious 10 minutes in that it's not going to work. If I've scheduled that during my lunch break, or for an hour before/after work, then that's a small cost. If I take a day off work to interview, then that's costing me in the order of $1000. If I don't know whether I want to work for you, then why would I do it?
And I definitely can't do that for 5-10 different roles that I might apply for. A full day is also quite hard work. Interviews are stressful. Dealing with people you don't know, trying to make sure you don't do/say something stupid, it gets exhausting. I generally expect 4-6 hours worth of interviews before an offer, but the typical process stretches those over a few weeks, which allows the candidate to fit them into available blocks of free time, and gives the candidate oppotunities to think about how things went, what questions to ask, whether this seems like the right fit, and pull out at any point. |