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Did you ever try to hire outstanding talent in a short period of time? Did you succeed or did you fail? If you´re not Google, or Apple, or…

Did you ever try to hire outstanding talent in a short period of time? Did you succeed or did you fail? If you´re not Google, or Apple, or Amazon, I assume you have a similar experience like me — I personally failed quite often! I was getting almost no applications, the process took ages or the candidates I wanted to hire just rejected my offer.

I was looking for reasons. It was obvious — it is the others fault. My company is to small, not representative enough, salary range is not attractive and so on.

But actually I was wrong. It was my fault. I wasn´t serious enough about hiring. I didn´t use one of my main skills. I am productmanager at heart! Why didn´t I use my productmanager skills to rethink the way I recruit? Here is what I learned.

(This article refers to my learnings on hiring awesome productmanager, but I am sure, its relevant for all other jobs as well.)

Learning #1 — Put yourself in the shoes of the applicant

What would you be interested in, when looking for a new job? Is it …