IT search is dominated by metrics and AI filters. It’s time to look beyond CVs and the person
By BEN JOHNSON
It is an uncomfortable truth but the recruitment of senior digital business leadership – those CIOs, IT directors, enterprise architects and programme leaders that control the ebb and flow of the $731bn market of digital transformation – is no longer fit for purpose.
A history of recruitment being approached as sales-based opportunism, and a dependence on the technology aimed at managing high volumes of entry-level roles, has led to a commoditisation of the recruitment of senior technology leaders.
In short, the field has become conditioned on CV harvesting, keywords and AI filters.
This creates two challenges: firstly the technology does not enable foresight of how a business, especially an enterprise, can develop a long-term, complex, yet agile and effective digital business operation.
Secondly there has been a loss of the human thinking that can make intuitive links and even the occasional leap of faith that can drastically improve – or shorten – a recruitment process.
It is time to make humans fashionable again.
Read the full article in Business Age.