The role has been open for five months. The spec has grown every month.

An unfilled vacancy is usually treated as a recruitment problem. The job description tells a different story, and it is worth reading closely.

By Steve 5 min read
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A vacancy open for five months tends to be discussed as a search problem: the market is tight, the agency is weak, candidates want more than the band allows. Any of those can be true. But there is a more revealing document in the file. Put the job description that went out in month one next to the one being advertised now. If it has grown, and it usually has, the search is not the thing that is broken. The specification is. A growing spec is a record of who…

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