I struggle to hire academics, because candidates are too good | Anonymous academic

I’m deluged with outstanding applications for academic posts. So should I recruit the people who need the job most?Some employers complain about not having enough good candidates to fill roles. I envy them. Imagine working in an industry where entry-level jobs require “world-leading” research records, where far more people are graduating from PhD programmes than the academy will ever employ. The problem is that nearly everyone on the long list for your new permanent lectureship