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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

These professionals stand out as some of the best I’ve met in the biz When I worked as an executive or a consultant advising C-suite leaders and business owners, many of them complained about their inability to attract and recruit talent. During my career of 25 years, I have met and worked with dozens of recruiters and search firms.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

To address some of these issues, my company decided to create a pilot apprenticeship program to create and grow a sustainable diverse talent pipeline separate from that of college graduates. They recruited a group of 30 individuals, ages 18-20, who expressed interest in the program. But we actually ended up with too many volunteers.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales. million and $16.5

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. But if a new CEO must be found, then recruiters may want to look outside rather than in.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

And as a mature company in a fast-growing sector where the competition for talent (especially in New York City) has led competing firms to heavily invest in their work settings, Adobe saw an opportunity to rethink the future of its Midtown Manhattan office. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

For the industry, the biggest challenge by far has been talent: upgrading skill sets from those sufficient to analyze relatively small amounts of clinical trial data to those required to gain insights from the vast amount of real-world data, including unstructured data such as physicians’ notes, scans and images, and pathology reports.

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Should You Give Your Star Employees Star Treatment?

Harvard Business

Because of this, stars are more likely to be in demand than their peers, so they will be approached by recruiters and rival organizations, who will try to entice them with better job offers and career opportunities.

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