Yes, hiring for a niche position is hard because you don’t have the luxury of choosing between many candidates. It seems like there are three approaches: 1. P

Yes, hiring for a niche position is hard because you don’t have the luxury of choosing between many candidates. It seems like there are three approaches: 1. Pay above market rate. Retention can be expensive with this strategy because you get into an arms race with the competition, but if you’ve got the budget, it’s the quickest. 2. Hire for attitude and re-train. Probably the slowest route to success as it can take years to build up true expertise, so it depends how much expertise you need and how quickly as to whether this is viable. 3. Hire for the niche skills and accept some other trade-off. I had limited budget to hire a strong MySQL DBA, and hired someone that wanted limited and extremely flexible working hours and could afford a paycut. How do you handle it?