Talent Insights Blog

How big is your pile? A client of ours recently had a leadership level finance & accounting search that got over 600 inbound applicants. Now, my first reaction when my colleague told me this was: “Let me guess, only a small handful fit? And the rest were yolo applies from people nowhere near the right skill set?” Nope. At first glance over 400 were a reasonably close fit. They had the baseline skills. Some ended up being too junior, not the right location, etc., but still ...