It seems to me that a false negative is worse than a false positive if the goal is to hire talent. Have never understood the mentality that it is better to mist

It seems to me that a false negative is worse than a false positive if the goal is to hire talent. Have never understood the mentality that it is better to mistakenly turn away a high skill individual than to mistakenly hire a low skill one, you're effectively guaranteeing the former to avoid the latter. Would you write a search algorithm that behaved this way?