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Yesterday, someone asked me to elaborate on talent picking and why “narrowing the subset” matters. It’s easier to pick the best talent from a subset of 10 versus 100 or 1000. You’d think seeing 1000 candidates would mean you have a greater chance of finding a unicorn genius but it takes longer and gives more choice and opportunities for error in judgment. Scale is one strategy to see the best, but it’s not the only strategy.
The hardest part about a narrow subset is ensuring you attract “the best” 50 candidates while repelling 450 candidates.
This is obvious in theory and hard to execute as a strategy. But the best talent pickers have figured out to repel the mediocre.
That is from Katherine Boyle.
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