In his book, “Winning“, Jack Welch alludes to the following, of which I completely agree (and not just because it’s how I make my living):
* Hiring Good People is hard. Hiring Great People is brutally hard. *
But there’s an elephant in the room, and it’s a big problem if you ask me. Here it goes: It’s my personal
observation that Hiring Managers, in this economy, tend to judge 99% of talent as “Good”. If a candidate has 99 of 100 of the Hiring Manager’s wish-list bullet items, they’re only Good? Hiring Managers often misconstrue “Great” (5-star talent) as only “Good” (4-star talent) on the premise of a simplistic, Draconian, philosophy: ‘If an employee wasn’t retained by their current organization, then by definition, they can’t be Great’.
