Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about hiring new grads, a recruiting dilemma, talent management in the Great Reset, the sources of performance problems, and problems filling the pipeline.
From Elli Sharef and Nick Sedlet: To Attract New Grads, Hire Like a Start-Up
“Something astonishing is happening to the market for young, smart labor. The luster of big prestigious firms, particularly on Wall Street, has dimmed: “The End of Wall Street as They Knew It,” goes a recent New York Magazine headline. A few months ago at Davos, CEOs complained about the brain drain affecting their companies. Where are all these people going? Increasingly to start-ups, which seem to have captured the public imagination, particularly among millennials (ages 18 to 29)”
From Jacque Vilet: The Recruiting Dilemma: Do You Look for Cultural Fit, or for Innovation?
“Glassdoor collected 285,000 questions asked by hiring managers. In 2012, the following were the top four asked. Note that they have nothing to do with skills, accomplishments or experience.”
From Jon Ingham: Talent Managing in the Great Reset
“A lot of the Economist’s Talent Management conference did focus on changes in the world of work. Dean Royles even nicked Peter Cheese’s phrase about work, the workforce and the workplace. Here are my highlights.”
From Aubrey Daniels: Why is it always THE PEOPLE?
“What boils my blood is that when performance or morale issues become uneven or lagging, the first assumption that is usually made by management is that “we have hired the wrong people.†Not that that can sometimes be the problem but that is the first conclusion from these problems. Is it just possible that it could be management or the job design?”
From Right Management: Most Employers Are Challenged to Build Leadership Pipeline
“Few organizations, either in the U.S. or in any other industrialized country, have been able to build a robust pipeline of leadership talent for their organizations. Senior leaders and HR professionals tell us that they not are confident about internal talent development efforts or their capability of meeting key management needs. In fact, only 4% of U.S. employers report having an ample pipeline that will cover most of their leadership and management needs, according to new research we recently conducted.”
Carnivals and Such
Frontline Festival-May 2013: Trust and Transparency Edition hosted by Karin Hurt
The Carnival of HR – Beginnings hosted by Doug Shaw
