Think about your strongest technical performer right now. The one other managers quietly try to poach, the one who solves the problem no one else can. There is a good chance that person is not browsing job boards this week. They are heads down, delivering, and entirely unaware that a role at your company even exists.
That is not a coincidence. It is the norm. And it raises a real question for most hiring teams: if your best people are not actively looking, why does your entire hiring strategy assume that everyone else's best people are?
