2. How willing are you to hire someone without the exact background or industry but can adapt and learn quickly due to transferable skills?
3. Do you recognize a bias for "people like you" (nepotism/cronysm, race, nationality, etc.) vs. the rest of the pool? Is this your "fit" criteria without admitting it due to legal reasons?
So 1: very willing 2: Very willing 3: I don't even look at stuff like that
I just hire people that are skilled and capable.
What about nontechnical roles?
I'm not the person you were responding to, but in my experience most of the candidates aren't even close.
You post a staff position and get dozens of college graduates.
You post a job requiring some C++ or Rust and you'll get 50 people who haven't written anything other than Ruby on Rails or Python.
I'm always open to impressive candidates who don't have exactly the right skills yet, but the majority of the spam applications can't even show that they're impressive candidates. They're just spamming the same resume to every job they see.