Recruiters focus too much on speed to the exclusion of quality and logic

I think we all know the recruitment process — i.e. the hiring process, the process of recruitment, whatever you wanna call it — is a mess. It tends to be rooted in recycled job descriptions, low-context interviews, hair on fire hiring managers throwing HR under a train, and various other niceties. Ultimately, no one really does a post-mortem on the recruitment process because HR owns it, and no one really cares about HR because it doesn’t directly generate revenue. Then a bunch of “thought leaders” take to LinkedIn to write articles about “the rise of People Analytics,” i.e. throwing technology at a program we haven’t been able to get right as humans anyway, namely the recruitment process.

Maybe there’s a quick little “growth hack” on the recruitment process, though.

Adam Grant, Malcolm Gladwell, and the recruitment process

Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell must be two of the bigger non-fiction guys out in the publishing world these days, yea? Grant has a new book with Sheryl Sandberg that is getting tons of pop, and Gladwell is literally the reason liberals can still have dinner parties and find topics other than Trump.

Well, those two big names combined at the Wharton People Analytics — ah-ha, there’s that…