Reboot Hiring

Introduction

Technology Won't Fix Your Hiring. But You Can

Managers and leaders want an easy fix. They want to believe that technology will provide an effortless way to reduce the cost and hassle of talent acquisition. They think they can automate it because they assume it takes little more than an interview to recruit successfully. Some are so blissfully unaware of what it truly takes to hire great people that they also believe prospective employees will willingly hand their career to an emotionless bot.

People are peculiar, fabulously so, and recruiting them isn't straightforward. In Reboot Hiring, I offer an alternative based on my 21 years of experience: a free solution within your control. I will show you that implementing technology without fixing human‐created problems already hinders hiring. I will agitate your reality and show you that fixing these human issues is the only way to save time, money, and hassle when recruiting.

The choice is yours.

In preparation for writing this, I searched for books on the human collaboration and communication issues that impede hiring, but I couldn't find any. In some ways, this makes sense; talent acquisition is a relatively new function that is evolving rapidly. Many managers and leaders are unaware of this pace of change, the enormous opportunity, or their value. Instead, they treat them as a costly service, an inconvenience best avoided, unaware that this self‐sabotaging behaviour makes recruiting clunky, expensive, and wasteful. ...