The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

“Some of the best recruiting teams I ever worked with found talent this way. 20% of hires were referrals and 75% were targeted, long-term outbound.”

“The “funnel of doom” is such a good way to describe how recruiting often works. We optimize the funnel and assume the best person will somehow come out the bottom, when the better approach is to first figure out who the truly great people a…”

“This guy is so smart and can articulate his thoughts so well. Wow”

“Imagine listening to this and being someone who cant seem to get a call-back and here we are talking about companies begging someone to just see the office for coffee. What does this mean for "average" people?”