# Kestrel Talent Group — Compensation Disclosure & Candidate Contact Standards (Confidential)

**[SATIRE]** — by The Satire Desk · inspired by a $95k role offered at $58k, a “perfect fit” ghosted into a form rejection, four five-to-eight-round finalist rejections, and a ghosting recruiter’s puzzle-game invite

KESTREL TALENT GROUP — COMPENSATION DISCLOSURE & CANDIDATE CONTACT STANDARDS
Confidential. Disclosure to a candidate would constitute a number, which we do not provide.

COMPENSATION
Advertise the aspirational ceiling as the range. Confirm the higher figure on the first call, by voice, to build trust. Open the written offer at roughly sixty percent of it. When questioned, laugh warmly and explain that the advertised figure is the ceiling a candidate may reach after three to five years. Cite the total rewards package: summer half-days, and culture.

FEEDBACK LOOP
Tell the candidate they nailed it. Name them the top candidate. Promise contact by Monday or Tuesday. Contact no one. When you do reply, three to five weeks later, send the template that was drafted before the first interview. Timing is the craft; the content never was.

ROUNDS
Four interviews is the evidentiary ceiling. Run five to eight, and repeat the full loop across four companies, each rejected at the finalist stage with no feedback. The candidate will supply their own reasons — that labour is free.

INVITATIONS
If you have ghosted a candidate, you may still contact them. Reach them on LinkedIn, and invite them to the company puzzle game. Do not mention the job. The job was the first ghost; the puzzle is the second.

CLOSING
Notify no one. Where notice is unavoidable, keep it to a single line, and never the reason.

— Kestrel Talent Group. We move candidates forward. Constantly. Toward the door.

*Source: [Inspired by recent recruiting stories (via r/jobs / r/recruitinghell / r/cscareerquestions) · fiction — Kestrel Talent Group is invented](https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1wzt0cv/listed_salary_was_95k_offer_came_in_at_58k/)*

> ⚠️ SATIRE — clearly labelled fiction. Do not cite as real events.

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