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The 6 Million Euro Man (or Woman): Sourcing Superior Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

Big Idea #1: Targeted Selection: Selection interviewing is a notoriously subjective process. A substantial body of research has indicated the reliability rate (the likelihood that two skilled interviewers will judge a candidate’s ability in the same manner) to be less than 50%. It’s based on a fairly simple premise.

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Accenture Careers

CaseInterview.com

The Resources Operating group is devoted to Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities. Talent and Organization Performance. Your own talents in this essential business concern might be a good fit for any of these areas for more details: [link]. For More: [link]. One third of its workers are women.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Damion Sanders – Director, Talent/Executive Development at UnitedHealth Group. HAY GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Hay Group are unusual in consulting, in that they do not place as much emphasis on cases as other firms do. Practice Areas. Capability assessment.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. The firm has made up for its youth, however, by growing rapidly through innovation, famous cases and a lot of acquisitions. the consulting firm started off like a lot of American startups do – in a small, forgettable warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of town (in this case, in Annapolis, MD).

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business

In some cases, it pays to tailor the job to the candidate’s unique capabilities. For example, the CEO of a communications company we interviewed initially hired a capable, senior individual to head strategy, but he didn’t contribute many insights beyond those that the CEO was already getting from the chief information officer.