I agree that the hiring situation in our industry is less than ideal. The irony is that, for all of the data we use and tools we make for others, our hiring pra

I agree that the hiring situation in our industry is less than ideal. The irony is that, for all of the data we use and tools we make for others, our hiring practices often rely on few tools, limited data, and lots of gut feelings about what is important. Take the process of advertising a position and moving candidates through the hiring process - the tools there are almost universally crappy and haven't made a lot of progress in the last decade. Also, as far as I can tell, very few companies attempt to record any kind of data about how candidates are hired and how they subsequently performed on the job (even tracking job performance is a tough problem) - and it certainly doesn't exist industry-wide. There is a ton of money in this area - why hasn't there been much progress? Is it because it is an unsexy problem, or is it because it is genuinely impossible?