Simple is not easy.

If anything, simple is more difficult than complex.

This is especially true when designing and executing important business systems in your organization.  

There is a natural tendency to make things complex when you believe something is essential or critical.

But great thinkers know better. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous French writer once said, 

You know you’ve achieved perfection not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Why is it so important to strive for simplicity?  

If a business process (like recruiting) seems simple, then candidates will be drawn to it more reliably.  

Also, they’ll engage the process with more energy and depth because they won’t experience the resistance a complex system naturally contains.

Simple is better—both for you and the recruiting prospects you’re trying to engage.