In all the chatter among human resource professionals and VCs about how to find and hire the best talent, Tjan says there is too much emphasis on asking whether candidates are qualified to do the job.
As a result, an unfair war for talent is taking place where resource rich companies and countries have an unmatched advantage in attracting and retaining the best talent from, sometimes, already talent-depleted nations and economies.
Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.