10 Mistakes Firms Make With Their Hiring Process

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Someone messaged me recently if I had written anything about the recruiting process and hiring. After about 30 seconds of thinking and a search through my YouTube videos, articles, and No B. S. Hiring Advice podcasts, I saw that almost everything I write about touches on the subject but few articles are explicit.

As such, I thought I would address ten mistakes firms make in their recruitment process.

1. The job description reads like a buffet menu and doesn’t reflect reality

If you’ve read any job description whether posted by a company trying to hire or a recruiter trying to fill a position with that same company, you see a description that lists 27 “requirements” and 52 responsibilities. In point of fact, most jobs can be distilled down to a few core skills and responsibilities. As a result, resources are wasted looking for a “purple squirrel” that rarely exists and, if it does, the expense of finding them in interviewing time for HR, hiring managers, and staff far exceeds the benefit of finding “the perfect person.”

2. The hiring team doesn’t get clear about everyone is there to evaluate.

The good news is that hiring managers enroll their staff with hiring. The bad news is that the staff is not…