Hiring and interviewing

Define before sourcing

Write, before posting anything:

• What this person will accomplish in their first year — outcomes, not responsibilities.
• The three or four competencies that actually predict those outcomes.
• What is genuinely required versus what is preferred. Long requirement lists are the most reliable way to shrink and homogenize a candidate pool, and most of the list is never used in the decision.
• The bar, agreed by everyone on the loop, before the first interview.

Undefined roles produce interview loops where each interviewer evaluates against a private definition, and the decision goes to whoever argues hardest.

Design the loop