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You’d Better Ask Somebody: Why Employee Referrals (Still) Matter in Hiring.

Recruiting Daily

The referral preference phenomenon might be new in the context of our personal lives, but that referrals have spent decades at the top of every source of hire report in the history of ever prove that this is nothing new in our professional lives. This is why reference and background checks exist, after all.

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The Startup Hiring Guide: Hiring for rapid growth from 5 to 50

Workable

You need to be a hiring obsessive. In comparison hiring practices have remained in the dark ages. Your first five hires pretty much picked themselves but in getting from 5 to 50 you will need the best tools and analytics, and you will need to be systematic. And my aim is to get all of us to talk about hiring.

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