Why technical recruitment is hard

My theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It’s clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called ‘the bozo explosion’ to happen in your organization. — Guy Kawasaki

The hiring process doesn’t successfully identify talent because we measure things that don’t predict if candidates will be successful in a new role.

The common methods, measurements and processes used in hiring don’t always help identify outstanding candidates from the poor candidates. Most companies use similar processes but do these help identifying talent?

Over the past 5 years I assessed hundreds of candidates with CV reviews, assessment days, digital interviews, phone interviews and face to face interviews.

The goal of the recruitment process is to create tools that help you identify good candidates and filter out the unsuitable candidates. Many processes to assess candidates add noise, ineffective and can waste time for everyone involved.