A Contrarian Perspective on Hiring for ‘Fit’

Many industries today are accelerating their focus on innovation to capture opportunities in ever-changing markets. CHROs and recruitment leaders are being tasked, as recently noted in a Deloitte study on innovation in the fast moving consumer goods, to “figure out new ways to incorporate non-traditional employees into their resource model to import the skills they lack.” Finding these non-traditional innovators often means abandoning conventional thinking about recruitment and sourcing outside of one’s competitors, or even outside of the industry, to find fresh talent.