The role has been open five months. The spec has eleven must-haves.

A long requirements list feels like rigour. Arithmetically it is a decision to stay unstaffed, and it rarely improves who you end up hiring.

By Steve 5 min read
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A vacancy that has been open for five months is usually described as a market problem. The talent isn’t there, the good ones are all employed, nobody wants to commute any more. Sometimes that is true. More often the constraint is written down in the job description, and it is the word and. Requirements compound. A specification that asks for sector experience and a specific system and team leadership and commercial instinct and a particular geography and acceptance of the offered band is not asking for six things. It is…

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