“Do They Have the Experience?” Shouldn’t Be Answered by a Job Title

TheAutisticLeader™️ Podcast · Nov 8, 2026 · 13m

Season 3 · Episode 7.

“Do they have the experience?” When a job title answers that question, people who did the work under another title get set aside. “Find someone who can hit the ground running” is sound advice: an open job costs your team real work, and years in closely related work do help. It never says what those years stand for, so you, your recruiter and every applicant end up guessing.

In this episode I talk through the three things I write down before I read the first résumé: the competencies the job needs at its level, one question for each asked in four parts, and one real…