People often throw around the phrase “Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.” Lovely sentiment. But in recruitment, it needs to be more than just a LinkedIn platitude next to a photo of someone high-fiving a dog. It needs to be the baseline.
If I had to hazard a guess at how many reasons I’ve heard for not considering someone for a role, I honestly don’t even know if I could come up with an accurate count. The number 487 springs to mind. Give or take a dozen. Or fifty.
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