Ask HN: How do I find and recruit the talented, ambitious, bright and young?
I am an HR manager for a large west coast firm.  I'd like to find a way to effectively recruit those who are talented, ambitious, bright and young and place them in to our executive/manager career tracks.  However, even though we post on job boards and our own website, the quality of the candidates is underwhelming.<p>Moreover, just looking at a resume doesn't tell me the mindset and motivation of the person.  While I can usually grasp what kind of skills a person may bring to the job, I have a hard time deducing the soft skills like attitude, communication, and teamwork one has.<p>Therefore, it is tough to know beforehand whether the person will work out as hoped and if we should invest our time and effort into bringing on a person who we know so little about.<p>The problem is that the interview process is a highly artificial and IMHO flawed way to assess a candidate from both the POV of the employer and candidate.<p>Do you know of any better way to find and employ the best candidates out there?