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Podcast: Leaders of Analytics
Episode: How to Hire the Right Data & Analytics Talent with Tim Freestone
Description: Is the typical hiring and job search process broken?
It is definitely full of bias.
First, we get interested candidates to submit their resumes.
Then someone (typically not the hiring manager) will pick out the resumes that look most interesting to them.
Resumes that survive are typically carefully curated for someone to be able to form a positive opinion in just a few seconds.
Then the hiring manager will pick their favourites out of that smaller pile. At this point, the lion’s share of candidates has been excluded pu...