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Hiring the Best People – You’ve got it all wrong!

HR Digest

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Star performers aren’t like doctors or engineers. They post portfolios instead of resumes.

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Selection vs Development Assessments

LDRLB

So let me give you a more compelling reason: if you use an assessment that has not been “ benchmarked ” to the position you’re hiring for, you could end up making a stupid hiring decision. The concept of benchmarking is really pretty simple. A success profile for an engineer looks very different than one for a sales role.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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The Big Picture of Business – Think Tanks to Strategize

Strategy Driven

Visioning sets the stage for necessary processes, such as growth strategies, re-engineering, training, enhancing shareholder value and organizational development. Without visioning, other functions (marketing, human resources, financial, production, quality control, public relations, etc.) are simply performing band-aid surgery.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. “Seeing is believing,” she explains. ” Here are some strategies.