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Revive Your Reputation—Avoid These Common Hiring Mistakes

HR Digest

How to Prevent This Hiring Errors To prevent this common hiring mistake, recruiters should collect information from employees in that particular role or talk to the relevant managers before creating the job description. The wait is unpleasant for the candidate and regularly they turn to other opportunities instead of waiting for the company.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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How to Ask for the Job Title You Deserve

Harvard Business Review

” For instance, if you ask for the title of “Chief Motivational Officer,” your business card might spell out that you’re also “EVP, Human Resource Planning.” Listen first… The most important thing you can do to prepare for the negotiation with your current or prospective manager is to listen.

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