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Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement

Harvard Business

Once upon a time, surveys were a staple for every leader to solicit feedback and every company to assess engagement. But now, surveys are starting to look like diesel trucks collecting dust in the age of electric cars. Surveys are still great predictors of behavior. Surveys give employees the chance to feel heard.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. All in all, we sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of 147 top law firms in 14 cities, from candidates who were supposedly trying to land a summer internship position.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. 1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Practice Areas.

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Surveys & Experimental Studies. Having Analysis Group on your resume communicates a brand that conveys intelligence and a driven, high-performing nature. Without an MBA or a PhD, you won’t get very far up the ladder, which, no matter how talented you are, is going to have a huge bearing on your compensation. Industries.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Employee Surveys. Talent Assessment. Talent Assessment. Talent Management. Out of the massive laundry list of HR and benefits options for any old large global firm to choose from, Towers Watson specializes in the Health and Group Benefits, Insurance Industry Consulting and Talent Management practice areas.

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How to Hire with Algorithms

Harvard Business

The sheer number of resumes can be overwhelming. When a manager reads through resumes of job applicants, she is implicitly trying to predict which applicants will perform well in the job and which won’t. Organizations and applicants alike often use heuristics to determine what characteristics of a resume matter most (College GPA?

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Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions

Harvard Business

Employers who exclude class from discussions about diversity and inclusion risk losing or alienating talented employees. As a banker asked to evaluate a series of resumes said, “ Anyone who plays squash I love.” The resumes were identical in terms of education and work experience.

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