From the course: Performance-Based Hiring
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- If you're not hiring as many good people as you'd like to, your company probably has the wrong talent strategy in place. Too many companies design their hiring processes on the false assumption that there's a surplus of top talent available, when in fact there is a scarcity. In a scarcity situation, you have to attract people in. So if your company still posts jobs that emphasize must-have skills, experiences and personality traits, you're assuming there is a surplus of talent. If your company doesn't measure a hiring manager's ability to attract, hire and retain top people, and if the measure of hiring success is how fast and how cheaply it can be done, you're assuming there's a surplus of talent. In a talent scarcity situation, you need to target the entire talent market. This requires a raising-the-talent-bar strategy, raising the quality of the people you are now hiring. Not the follow-the-leader strategy, which is hiring people just like…
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