According to research by BossaBox, the bottleneck does not necessarily lie in the supply of talent, but in traditional hiring models
Summary
BossaBox research reveals that 86% of leaders experience difficulty hiring product and technology professionals, due to traditional hiring models, not a lack of qualified talent.
The difficulty in recruiting product and technology professionals remains a major pain point for leaders and companies. According to a recent survey by BossaBox, a reference consultancy in the squads-as-a-service model in Brazil, carried out with more than 500 industry leaders, reveals that 86% of them report hiring difficulties, but only 32% attribute this barrier to the lack of qualified candidates.
The data highlights a critical point: the bottleneck is not necessarily in the supply of talent, but in the traditional models that still drive hiring in the sector. Slow processes, poorly defined scopes, misaligned expectations and irrelevant approaches make hiring inefficient, while qualified professionals are faced with generic interviews, dynamics that are misaligned with their real routine and companies that are unclear on the problem they want to solve.
“It’s not that there is a lack of talent. The problem is that the market insists on solving new challenges with old structures,” explains João Zanocelo, vice president of product and marketing and co-founder of BossaBox.
A clear example is the traditional freelance model, based on hourly billing, which is already showing signs of exhaustion. For complex challenges with multiple dependencies, this format creates more friction than results, prioritizing time invested over impact generated. On the other hand, insisting on only full-time internal hiring for all fronts results in teams that are overloaded, poorly allocated, and slow to respond to new demands.
The future, according to BossaBox, is not about replacing one model with another, but about expanding the portfolio of possibilities. Not all requests need to become a permanent vacancy: some require temporary teams, others can be conducted as experiments, and some are solved with specific deliveries with a defined beginning, middle and end.
“The key point is not to outsource or not, but to understand when it makes more sense to build with the internal team and when hiring an external partner is strategic to protect the team’s focus, accelerate critical deliveries or validate hypotheses before scaling. Hiring in Technology, therefore, is no longer difficult, what remains is to change the focus of the discussion. If, instead of opening a vacancy, the company starts with the problem it needs to solve, it opens up space for more agile, predictable and strategic people,” underlines the vice president of product and marketing and co-founder of BossaBox.
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