Article: Your Approach to Hiring is All Wrong by Peter Cappelli

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Question 1
The respective article named “Your approach to hiring is all wrong” written by Peter
Cappelli talks about certain mistakes that the human resource personnel commit while recruiting
or hiring individual candidates for the jobs in their organization. The article has spoken about the
problems that recruiters face in hiring the best candidates due to slack in labor market and
worldwide recession. Issues such as lack of promotion and retention of the employees have
caused difficulties in finding good candidates in the market. Employee turnover is big issue and
the human resource personnel has the tiresome job to keep on hiring new candidates from
various fields (Long, Ajagbe & Kowang, 2014). The article has also proposed certain
recommendations by which the recruitment process can be improved and made premium, such
as, designing job with realistic requirements, avoiding unnecessary “phantom” jobs,
understanding the limits of referrals and utilization of budget for recruitment judiciously. The
article has pin pointed an important issue, which is “dishonesty of the candidates while
interviewing”. As candidates have the tendency to get hired in every possible way, recruiters
must be capable enough to judge the candidate according to his/ ability and not what he/she
projects in front of them. It has speculated and is agnostic about the credibility of HR
technologies in premium hiring process. To summarize, the article has gone through all the
aspects of post- war hiring and where has it gone wrong along with necessary recommendations
to rectify such faults.
Question 2
According to the article, data science has not yet fixed the issues faced by HRM during
recruitment and hiring. The reason for such callousness is that most of the data scientists know