The biggest thing to come out of today’s Chuck Fletcher press conference is that the organization’s focus is on finding and hiring the next coach. As a professional recruiter, I have had to listen to a million hiring managers attempt to talk about building an “ideal candidate profile” and the experience can be just as painful as what we just heard from Fletcher.
Hiring everyday accountants, customer service specialists, teachers, trash collectors, any kind of hiring is an immensely difficult thing to do right now. If you are Chuck Fletcher and the Flyers, it’s even more difficult to hire someone where there are only 32 available positions because the byproduct of such a specialized role is there is then a microscopic candidate pool.