[CaptainCrunch]

All I know is that the current corporate recruitment processes are just doomed to fail.

In my day (here we go Grandpa's speaking)

You'd apply, get called in for an interview, if they liked you they'd check your references then bring you in for a second and then you'd get an offer. Usually the process happens in the same week.

Now, its phone interviews followed by an HR Interview, then an interview with the person hiring, followed by an interview with his superiors, then a meeting with the "team"

Usually this takes a couple of weeks.

I get that teams want to be careful with their hirees. But first of all, References are pretty much worthless now, most people script their references on how to handle the tough questions.

Second of all, but the time they go through 4 or 5 interviews and all of the other stuff, the candidate that they really want is off of the market and they've wasted time.

If you want to nail an interview, the best piece of advice is to honestly tell them at the end (or be a little dishonest) that you're into the final stages on some other opportunities, and while this one seems like a good fit for my skills and experience and knowledge base, and you want to keep pursuing it, but you have to keep these other opportunities moving because there are no guarantees.