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Curiosity is critical to professional success. A curious mind will spot and solve problems, while being unafraid to try something new. It will seek out the insights of others, and open itself to expanded thinking. A curious person will never succumb to apathy, instead pushing consistently for growth, innovation, and improvement. Anyone seeking to build a successful career must embrace curiosity.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Coleman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Hiring, Human Resources, Personal Development

Expert advice from Dropbox, Figma and Stripe on timing your first sales hire, finding the right candidate profile and creating effective onboarding to successfully transition from founder-led sales to a scalable revenue team.

Content: Article | Author: Meka Asonye | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Human Resources, Marketing / Sales

Employers make a lot of assumptions about the value of a degree. But do they really know how to assess the quality of graduates’ college experiences – or how those experiences influence how prepared these graduates are to be engaged, productive employees?

Content: Article | Authors: Brandon Busteed, Sean Seymour | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

When employers say the labor market’s tight, it’s that they can’t find people in the way they’re used to looking for people. And we have to ask them questions like, “Who are you considering? How are you getting applicants? What do you have in your ad?” Because we also see employers who will often advertise for more credentials than they need. And then we see … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Betsey Stevenson | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Tailored, practical diversity trainings offered at the right decision points can yield meaningful change, says new research by Edward H. Chang and colleagues.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward H. Chang, Michael Blanding | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Diversity, Hiring, Human Resources

Fair-chance job seekers are people who have been involved with the criminal justice system, whether convicted of a crime, incarcerated, or arrested but never convicted. These individuals—one in three US adults—are more likely than the overall population to be actively looking for work, but they have little to no access to quality employment opportunities because of their background.

But there’s good news. The data shows that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Cassandra Di Prizio, Claire Roehri, Gabrielle Novacek, Lina Bankert, Molly Verghese, Nico Lake, Sara Wasserteil | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Companies miss the mark on high managerial talent in 82% of their hiring decisions, which is an alarming problem for employee engagement and the development of high-performing cultures…

Conventional selection processes are a big contributor to inefficiency in management practices; they apply little science or research to find the right person for the managerial role. When Gallup asked U.S. managers why they believed they were hired … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jim Harter, Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

We’ve got to move the whole country to a skills-view, not just degree-view, of jobs, and then hire for that and reward for that. This accomplishes many things. First, as an employer, I need more people with the right skills. Second, there are so many people left out of economic opportunity. This brings more people back into our workforce.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ginni Rometty | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time, Gallup finds.

Content: Article | Authors: Jim Harter, Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Some characteristics and behaviors are common to top performers across many different roles. Here are four ways that high-quality candidates may respond differently than the rest to the right interview questions.

Content: Article | Authors: Bailey Nelson, Brandon Rigoni, Joseph Streur, Kevin Campbell, Sarah Houle | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

In an effort to minimize mishires, many companies have adopted extensive hiring processes … that we believe is as damaging a form of inefficiency as mishires themselves. […] And there’s no strong evidence that it’s actually even working.  The treatment has become worse than the disease.

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In their review of their hiring processes, Google discovered that they could capture 86% of the value produced by … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Alexandra Ham, Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

When you’re trying to balance the hiring opinions of so many different interviewers, you don’t always wind up with the best candidate. You end up hiring the candidate that skates through by getting a more neutral opinion from most interviewers.

Content: Quotation | Author: Liz Kofman-Burns | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

When adding a new team or role, take the time to clarify a few things: What a role is, what it’s meant to serve, how existing people have been making up for the lack of that role, and how their lives are going to be changed by new people coming in — in positive and potentially negative ways.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cristina Cordova | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Spotting folks who can become high-impact leaders at your company is exceptionally challenging in an interview setting. While you can probe IC skills with a coding test or other function-specific take-home projects, unraveling all the nuances that go into managing people can be incredibly tricky — especially with just a narrow sliver of time with each candidate.

So when sitting down with management candidates, interviewers tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40 tools — some familiar but underutilized, others unfamiliar and innovative — that can help companies find and keep the people … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Allison Bailey, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman, Nithya Vaduganathan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

For folks looking to get started [creating a culture code] [begin] with this prompt: Who are the kinds of people that we think we want to work with? These can’t be platitudes that everyone would say yes to. Like, we want to hire smart people. Intelligence can’t be a core cultural value because no one would say they want to hire stupid people. You have … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dharmesh Shah | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

When it comes to recruiting you can always tell someone what they want to hear, but within six months you’ll both know whether it’s true. Listening for what a candidate is truly looking for instead of just pitching will save you wasted cycles.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ximena Vengoechea | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Organizations need to develop and implement clearly defined rules regarding how they use online information about job candidates, a new paper on cybervetting says.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Shipman | Source: Futurity.org | Subjects: Diversity, Hiring, Human Resources

We think that we made it easier 20-something years ago when Monster started posting jobs. It makes it easier for the employer, it doesn’t make it easier for the job seeker. You’re not getting rejected, you’re just never getting past the technology.

Content: Quotation | Author: J.T. O’Donnell | Source: Vox | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

The “talent shortage” is likely rooted in employers’ inability to find people with the experience managers want rather than a true shortage of talented recruits. Put another way, when hiring, employers are favoring experience over talent, therefore overlooking recruits who could excel in certain roles despite not having the preferred background for those jobs. […] Gallup defines talent as an individual’s naturally recurring patterns of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Anson Vuong, Kevin Campbell | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources