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Talent Acquisition

douglas-board's picture

Science is what has lifted selection out of the dark ages for junior and mid-level roles over the past 40 years, but it's had virtually no impact on senior level (C-suite) hiring. That's partly because science-based selection has been anti-intuition and in denial about the political nature of all senior...

By Douglas Board on July 1, 2013
stefan-blobelt's picture

Adaptation is nature's principle of progression. Progression is the foundation for viability. Viability is the ultimate purpose of all living systems. With human beings being living systems spending most of their time working in corporations, firms, or other kinds of institutions, the capability to adapt on the individual as well...

By Stefan Blobelt on June 29, 2013
alan-gard's picture

What's the most common requirement listed in filling positions?  "Candidate must have X years of experience in Y industry." If the candidate has been in the industry all those years, he or she is bringing mostly the same experiences and approaches as the people already at the company.  How does...

By Alan Gard on June 28, 2013
kubatova-jaroslava-kukelkova-adela's picture

Standardized tests or prepared interviews are getting useless. Thanks to the Internet and commonly available information about hiring process helps to all candidates to pass throw the hiring system even when they haven’t got predispositions for the job. It is easy to answer the questions of hiring specialists when we...

dave-whitman_1's picture

Utilize a formalized Interview process with employees in their current role that mirrors what a new applying candidate would experience if their current job were to be posted in today's market. 

This will allow tenured employees with the ability to see how the current expectations for their role continues to be...

By Dave Whitman on June 24, 2013
leonardo-zangrando's picture

 

This hack was inspired by the great book by Jonathan Zittrain "The future of the Internet" but is not limited to Internet businesses.
 
Zittrain describe the PC and the Internet as "generative" for their characteristic of having been designed to allow new uses,...
giuseppe-gerardo-ciarambino's picture

In a rapidly changing environment, is it appropriate to continue to be based primarily on official qualifications and experience?

Or is it better appraise aspects of character, skills of ...

richard-james-barnes's picture

HR needs to reorient itself from satisfying internal demands for qualifications, experience, knowledge, compliance etc. to search for people with adapatability and empathy as a core business skill.  The latter is a requirement for the former and a lead indicator of performance in handling change.

This is not just about...

richard-melrose's picture

Whether for talent identification, acquisition, deployment, development, performance management, engagement or retention, employers need to stop pretending that HRMS/HRIS from SAP, Oracle, or any of the rest of them, can do the real job.  These IT packages are workflow and transaction driven, encouraging people managers to check the boxes, timely, rather than...

By Richard Melrose on June 14, 2013

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