Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They couldn’t recruit fast enough. Even when they found good people, many new service agents were pulled out of their two-month training program in as little as two weeks. They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation.

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