CEOs track every battle with competitors, except recruiting!
Yes, in my experience, CEOs are competitive. (Let me correct that: they are fiercely competitive.) And they would likely go off in a rant if they heard that they lost a head-to-head recruiting battle against one of their industry’s competitors.
But they can’t complain in this case. Because no one in corporate recruiting formally tracks and reports recruiting’s win-loss ratio in head-to-head industry competitions. And it’s, obviously,