You have critical job openings and you need to recruit quickly. Traditionally, you go to market for a top external candidate or look for an internal promotion or a horizontal move by a talented employee. Continuing with time-tested HR approaches, your selection criteria focus on the candidate’s previous relevant experience, educational background and area of study.
More often than not, you recruit someone from outside the organization who doesn’t understand your mission and purpose, creates issues, and moves on, or you end up with an internal candidate more focused on the pay increase and job title than on meeting your organizational need.
