In today's candidate-driven hiring environment, it feels like top talent gets snatched off the market fast—sometimes before you've even had a chance to review the hundreds of resumes sitting in your queue. But in reality, there is plenty of software engineering talent available on the market today. The problem isn’t supply—the problem is how recruiters evaluate top-of-funnel talent.

The solution? Widening the hiring funnel, and then narrowing it smartly. This playbook explains how you can hack the tech talent system to:

• Expand the variety of candidates who apply for your open positions
• Deploy short, technical assessments that make it easy to zero in on the most qualified candidates and get them into your interview process as quickly as possible 
• Create a faster, more efficient, and more equitable screening process that builds better engineering teams—and a repeatable process you can continue to build on

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