Comments on: Get Everyone Involved in Building the Team http://www.socrata.com/recruiting/get-everyone-involved-in-building-the-team/ Making Data Social - Open Data Services for Government Thu, 03 May 2012 01:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Getting everyone involved in hiring | Catch the Best http://www.socrata.com/recruiting/get-everyone-involved-in-building-the-team/#comment-6644 Getting everyone involved in hiring | Catch the Best Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:23:11 +0000 http://blog.socrata.com/index.php/2008/03/09/get-everyone-involved-in-building-the-team/#comment-6644 [...] Merritt, the founder of blist, made a good point in his recent blog post, Get Everyone Involved in Building the Team. I commented on his blog there, but I thought it worth a mention here too, that this was one of the [...] [...] Merritt, the founder of blist, made a good point in his recent blog post, Get Everyone Involved in Building the Team. I commented on his blog there, but I thought it worth a mention here too, that this was one of the [...]

]]> By: Benjamin Curtis http://www.socrata.com/recruiting/get-everyone-involved-in-building-the-team/#comment-6645 Benjamin Curtis Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:50:40 +0000 http://blog.socrata.com/index.php/2008/03/09/get-everyone-involved-in-building-the-team/#comment-6645 And this is one of the primary motivators I had for creating Catch the Best... to make it easier to include everyone on the team in the candidate selection process. Many companies find this level of participation frightening -- instead they cling to the notion that the process should be tightly controlled by HR -- but I think we'll continue to see more companies realizing they have a lot of talent in their existing teams that they can tap to improve their hiring practices. And this is one of the primary motivators I had for creating Catch the Best… to make it easier to include everyone on the team in the candidate selection process.

Many companies find this level of participation frightening — instead they cling to the notion that the process should be tightly controlled by HR — but I think we’ll continue to see more companies realizing they have a lot of talent in their existing teams that they can tap to improve their hiring practices.

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