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What is the right response to a bad recruiting inquiry?

Killer Consultant

But there are many shades of “well” You want to keep the valuable contacts active and get rid of the rest in a cordial fashion. When I was headhunted for my current job, my first contact with the recruiter actually was of the last category. So, with n=1, this strategy is amazingly successful!

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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. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. What’s the trick?

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Making the Talent Leap of Faith

Strategy+Business

Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read " The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath."'

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Making the Talent Leap of Faith

Strategy+Business

Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read " The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath."'

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PM Career Paths

Tom Spencer

A PM’s background may be based in another branch of education also, such as fashion in case the products are heavily focused on those types of industries. Senior PMs are in a position to coach or directly lead other junior PMs and work closely with product leaders in the organization to execute on product strategy. Junior/Associate PM.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. Before the acquisition of Parthenon, consulting at EY was really synonymous to Advisory (not strategy). EY Consulting.

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9 Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track

LSA Global

If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. Done right, learning and development can be the link between recruiting, engaging, retaining and managing your workforce.

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