added by sari · updated 2y ago
Recruitment is broken
- Placement may just be (hot take alert) one of the keys to bridging the skills gap (learn more about it here): since 85% of jobs are filled through personal networking (and millions of students are underemployed globally (but especially in high-income economies), there is no guarantee that simply releasing hundreds of thousands of prepared graduates... See more
from The Placement Economy đź“®Transcend Newsletter XXI by Transcend Network
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- Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them. Even looking at those of us who are lucky enough to have a high degree of choice about what we do with our work, I’ll bet that as few as 20% of us are in the seat that best optimizes our talents and skills at any ... See more
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog
- Takeaways:
- Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.
- A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.
- Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,
from Hiring your early team by Lenny Rachitsky
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