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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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Applying to McKinsey from a Non-Target School

CaseInterview.com

Using your frameworks and guidelines, I was able to recently secure offers from Oliver Wyman and McKinsey (I accepted the McKinsey offer). Before my interviews with both firms, I actually got rejected from non- management consulting jobs (even though they were both less prestigious firms and would have been backups for me).

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Conversation with Vivaldi Partners Group

Tom Spencer

I was grateful for the recent opportunity to talk with Heather Tortorello, the talent growth director at Vivaldi Partners Group. As part of the mentor program, we assign a senior partner to a handful of people on the mentor team, and we have a learning and development guideline that guides the process.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. In each case, one of us served as the executive coach and worked with the executive to set their individual goals.

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Labour Retention: How you can create ‘Sticky’ Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Talent Wars : As the ‘war for talent’ increases, there’s emerging evidence of systematic poaching, in some cases encouraged by headhunters who make a living from ‘executive churn’.Don’t

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How to Help the Employees You Gain in a Merger Succeed

Harvard Business

Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. While the size and circumstances of Jet.com’s deal are atypical, one clear takeaway stands out: These types of acquisitions aren’t about procuring talent; they’re about producing impact.