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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Another common strategy we’ve seen is firms rushing to train internal talent.

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business

What do these enterprises need to scale up? The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders. Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. Talent is scarce and therefore expensive.

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DEI Is Under Attack. Here’s How Companies Can Mitigate the Legal Risks.

Harvard Business

Rather, as the law inevitably evolves in a more conservative direction, the new legal standards will be absorbed into the field of DEI, transforming it as an enterprise. When it comes to DEI today, the authors predict that neither side will “win.”

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HR’s Vital Role in How Employees Spend Their Time, Talent, and Energy

Harvard Business

Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. Next, consider talent. The best companies get a 29% boost in productivity from their talent. It can be measured in three ways: Time.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. The capabilities within these diverse fields include: Strategy - helps leading enterprises develop, build, and operate strong businesses. Christopher Meyer – Author and Founder, Monitor Talent.

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Can We Keep Our Biases from Creeping into AI?

Harvard Business

But that will only happen if we expand AI talent pools and explicitly test AI-driven technologies for bias. The more long-term approach requires expanding the talent pool of people working on the next generation of AI technologies. Diversifying the AI talent pool isn’t just about gender.

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How to Use Employee Referrals Without Giving Up Workplace Diversity

Harvard Business

In a tight talent market, it’s tempting for organizations to rely even more heavily on employee referrals to fill open positions, but a new study from PayScale shows that doing so could lead to pay inequities and a less-diverse workforce. Gather data on talent sourcing. Martin Harvey/Getty Images. More than a third of U.S.

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