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After 25 years as a TA leader, I admit that we use many recruiting practices that are simply silly.
I call them “dinosaur recruiting practices” because they are now obsolete and should be extinct. But they aren’t, and they are still commonly used.
For a recruiting practice to reach “dinosaur status,” there can’t be much data or proof that it is a valid practice (meaning that it accurately helps to identify or land the best candidates). One of those dinosaur practices that needs to fade away is giving a hiring preference to candidates “that you would like to have a