Want To Dominate Recruiting In Your Industry? – Adopt Silicon Valley’s Critical Success Factors (Part 1 of 2)

If you are a recruiting leader whose executives have extremely high expectations for dominating their industry, this is the article for you. After 20 years of studying Silicon Valley and West Coast firms that dominate their industries, I have found that there are clear differentiators that cause firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Salesforce to produce truly exceptional business outcomes, as a direct result of their exceptional recruiting. Some call these differentiators “strategic principles”, while others use the phrase “focus areas”. Instead, I call them “critical success factors” or CSFs. Applying these factors comprehensively is a critical strategic step that leads to success, at least for those whose goal is to dominate the recruiting competition in their industry.