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Talent Acquisition

sean-schofield's picture

There is a lot of energy spent on CVs. Too much. To be honest, it's not even necessary - at all.

Applicants wordsmith and position; enterprises collect, prioritize, and validate. Yet I'd argue, by and large, it's wasted time and, worse, misses the point. 

Why?

  • You don't want to hire someone who is
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By Sean Schofield on June 13, 2013
keith-gulliver's picture

Brief Overview – the notion is that for organisations to be adaptable they will need to hire 'adaptable people' from diverse backgrounds, to work with their customers and clients. The traits of adaptability sought will be the same whichever organisation you work for. Organisations waste resources chasing and...

By Keith Gulliver on June 13, 2013
mark-munley's picture

The need for agility in organizations is becoming the norm. Adapt or die. Quickly.

So, how to change the thinking, processes and artifacts we use to develop job descriptions which are static in nature? (I saw a study recently that suggested that 65% of employees are doing work not addressed...

By Mark Munley on June 12, 2013
debbie-stivala's picture

Attract adaptable people by designing jobs with an emphasis on the organisational culture and by innovating competency assessments. Too often job descriptions and adverts describe only a small snippet of the company culture with the remainder focused on the tasks and candidate criteria. Assessment methods are not always drilling down...

By Debbie Stivala on June 12, 2013
christina-rudrich's picture

What do you think if the first day of an employee could be fun? What is if he/she is guided via an ARG (alternate reality game) through your company? What you think about beeing a manager and seeing how all approaches are done

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uduma-kalu-etea's picture

Often times the emphasis in talent acquisition is tenure as evidenced by experience. This ensures that new hires simply come with entrenched mindsets and rigid workstyles to the new organisation. A shift from tenure to talent i.e. what can the potential new employee really offer? Even though it is a...

By Uduma Kalu Etea on June 12, 2013
indy-neogy's picture

Recruitment officers/depts are herd animals. They all graze in the same places, looking for "that person who did the same job at our competitor" or "that person who did the same degree at the same place as the current dept. manager." 

We need to put limits on this kind of...

By Indy Neogy on June 9, 2013
edna-pasher's picture

We have given up on long and expensive recruiting processes. In our group we do it this way: we collaborate with all universities in our country and invite their graduate students to gain practice with us. We then offer the best ones - after a one day a week practice...

By Edna Pasher on June 8, 2013
bruce-lewin's picture

Typically, recruitment and the related team creation processes are informed by a wide variety of subjective and objective variables. Whilst the rise of cloud based recruitment and human capital management software makes the creation and tracking of these processes easier, recruitment[1] and team creation processes lack the rigour and consensus...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2013

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