TLDR Recruiting is broken. Businesses must screen for social skills. Employers screen and select for experience and hard skills, totally overlooking the most critical dimension of applicants’ talent proposition: their social skills. This produces bad outcomes: selecting wrong hires, overlooking high value ones.
Harvard on How Recruitment Must Change
Harvard on How Recruitment Must Change
Harvard on How Recruitment Must Change
TLDR Recruiting is broken. Businesses must screen for social skills. Employers screen and select for experience and hard skills, totally overlooking the most critical dimension of applicants’ talent proposition: their social skills. This produces bad outcomes: selecting wrong hires, overlooking high value ones.