Consistent good hiring requires a few things

1) A commitment to spend the resources necessary to bring in quality personnel

2) Casting a sufficiently wide net to capture the best pool of candidates

3) Leveraging organizational brand/equity to attract good candidates within the pool. The best candidates probably aren't looking.

4) Letting skills and measurable results drive the majority of candidate ranking and evaluation.

5) Accountability for hires in a reasonable timeframe, and willingness to rectify mistakes and bad fits quickly

We've improved on 1). We've failed on the others.

We might get lucky on a DC promotion. That is independent of whether we have a good hiring process in place or not. We don't.