Hiring managers today face certain challenges when it comes to measuring talent for successful selection. Below is a look at some of these challenges.

First of all, over 90% of recruiting begins online through job boards and social media. What this means is that most of the information that the hiring manager or recruiter is using for their research on a particular candidate through the use of sources such as Google, job boards, Facebook and LinkedIn will in most cases have been posted by the candidate themselves. This is especially if the sourced information is employment related.

Secondly, candidates tend to throw resumes at related positions in the hope that they will stick. This means that when most people apply for jobs, they assume that these positions require similar skills and/ or experience which they used in another job. 

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Exceptional Leaders challenge and stretch their people, and they do it all the time.

Being demanding does not mean being autocratic. It means expecting and communicating the requirements needed for the best work and giving constructive feedback to others when the best is not delivered. This is a common approach for exceptional coaches and teachers as well.

If a leader is satisfied with less, performance ratchets downward toward mediocrity.

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