Most people think that staffing begins with sourcing, but as you'll see, in strong product companies staffing begins with active recruiting. In an HR‐driven approach to hiring, a hiring manager might provide a job description, but things don't really get going until HR starts providing resumes (known as sourcing). In fact, one of the obvious symptoms of this problem is when the hiring manager complains that she's not getting enough high‐quality resumes. Yet for strong managers, it's the opposite. The hiring manager identifies what she wants, and then she goes out and recruits. It's analogous
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