You Will Never Find the Perfect Candidate
Stop searching for purple unicorns and do this instead.
“My daughter will love this!”
In all my years of training leaders, that comment was a first.
But, then again, it was also the first time I had ended a training by passing out a few dozen cupcakes decorated as purple unicorns.
Earlier that day, we had somehow lured 20 managers away from their jam-packed schedules to join us for a full day of training.
It was clear that some of them were less than thrilled to be spending a day with HR, while others welcomed the change of pace from the strategic planning they’d been entrenched in for weeks prior.
Regardless of how they felt about the day ahead, they were here. And, if there’s one thing learning and development professionals love more than anything else — it’s a captive audience!
The topic of the day? All things talent acquisition. This group had one thing in common; they were all hiring managers and leaders of people.
But, why the purple unicorn cupcakes?
In the recruiting world, a purple unicorn is a term used to describe the perfect candidate that certain hiring managers are uncompromisingly and neverendingly in search of. Forget…
