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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Talent Acquisition. The responsibility of most talent acquisition teams is to understand job requirements, scout talent, and walk them through an assessment process. If you are early in your career, you may be engaging a lot with recruiters. Within HR management, there are three main functions to be aware of.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Recruiting For the Future Workplace Today

Cheryl Cran

The war for talent for the future workplace today. Questions like: Where do we find high performing talent who can fit into our culture and hit the ground running? How do we align our need for talent with our willingness to teach and train new hires? Who in our company are our top performers and who do they know?

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business

The second most important problem, finding and keeping talented people (36%), becomes crucial as entrepreneurs secure some funding. Three-quarters of funded, early-stage companies believe the inability to access the talent they need will have a critical impact on their businesses. Talent is scarce and therefore expensive.

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How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

CaseInterview.com

One of the questions I get a lot from newer managers is: “How do I manage someone who is older and more experienced, knowledgeable, and talented than I am?” A good CEO hires people who are smarter, more experienced, and more talented in their respective functional areas than the CEO. It means you recruited well.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth.

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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Hire or train an operations manager or COO Another obvious alternative is to recruit an operations manager or Chief Operating Officer. Or you train someone in your team to take over that role. Think of the COO or operations manager as the execution engine to your strategic decisions. If you don’t, delegate it to them.