EDITORIAL
Your best hires come from your second-degree network
First degree is exhausted faster than you think.
The PUBlish Desk · 3 April 2026
The first hires come from people you already trust. The second five come from people they trust — your second-degree network. That's usually where the quality hiring stops being easy.
By hire number ten, the operators who keep shipping quality candidates are the ones who built a habit of asking existing hires "who's the best person you've worked with that I should meet?" every month. Not every quarter. Every month. Coffee chats with no open role attached.
Hiring is a compounding asset. The pipeline you cultivate when you don't need it is the pipeline that saves you when you do.
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