Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Data Talent Survey Recruitment 132

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

To measure human capital, you can deploy metrics such as our productive power index , which looks at the cost of organizational drag and the benefits of effective talent and energy management on your overall productive power. As the adage goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Management 136

Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 136

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

Strategy& 133

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Recruitment 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer. Once these graduates are on the job, Generation measures their performance relative to peers.

Training 134

Training Training ROI Metrics 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

This will require reporting on new metrics. Dashboards usually include metrics such as number of interactions on your digital platform (sales or other), number of active network partners, value created, for both the firm and its partners, and the overall sentiment of the network regarding its collaboration.

How To 124

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 124

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are findings that point to positive gains in both cost savings and productivity measures, while other studies, including the recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, find that programs can make for good recruitment tools but won’t do much to lower costs or improve health.

How To 128

How To Metrics Groups Energy 128

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Recruit Holdings from Japan is a publishing and classified advertisement company, founded in 1963. Its classified advertising has evolved into numerous publications in which merchants, ranging from gourmet restaurants, beauty salons, and wedding banquet venues advertise, and Recruit editorial teams provide magazine content.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Recruitment Recruiting 70

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This article was inspired by a recent conversation with an IT prodigy who specializes in building virtual games used for recruitment purposes. Online assessments, aptitude tests, and gamified problem-solving tasks have become ubiquitous in the recruitment processes of top companies, with consulting firms being some of the earliest adopters.

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Recruitment Recruiting Case Interview Consulting 68

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. Hayon Thapaliya. My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company.

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Metrics Analysis Data Benchmarking 119

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

recruiting profiles, target candidate pools, evaluation processes, and programs for attracting top job candidates), developing sales force competencies (e.g. It requires directing and managing salespeople using the right metrics, operating cadence, and performance management process. approaching difficult but important prospects).

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Sales Talent Operations Efficiency 130

Management Consulted

JUNE 11, 2017

Tip : Be sure to include metrics wherever possible! MBA-level : If you’re currently wrapping up your 1st or 2nd year in an MBA program and entering the internship or full-time recruiting process, competition is tough! Firms will see you’ve always been a top-performer, instead of a flash-in-the-pan at your last role.

Resumes 124

Resumes Consulting Interviews Leadership 124

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Recruitment. Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. Creating Agile HR, Part 3: Possible Agile Hiring Metrics. Let me circle back around to what HR does, as in Part 1 : Administration and Benefits.

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Agile Recruitment Recruiting Education 61

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Some eschew metrics altogether, gambling they will learn as they go when it comes to measuring what’s important. Many prefer the soft metrics, such as satisfaction and engagement mentioned above, and still others defer measurement into the future, minimizing expenses while awaiting a business case to emerge.

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Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 128

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Buzzfeed recruited a top-notch news team, including editor Ben Smith and Mark Schoofs , while Vice News has done hard-hitting, documentary-style reporting in places like Ukraine and North Korea. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. The truth is that Tronc is managing for metrics rather than for mission.

Data 110

Data Journal Media Video 110

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

For example, in a famous experiment , recruiters reviewed identical resumes and selected more applicants with white-sounding names than with black-sounding ones. This way, no single metric, such as SAT score, would exclude a qualified candidate. At their core, algorithms mimic human decision making.

Resumes 70

Resumes Recruitment Recruiting Software 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

” Don’t just recruit “fans” for your community. When recruiting for community members, be mindful to identify the right participants — those that are capable and motivated to open up and share their lives and ideas to make a brand better.

ROI 70

ROI Recruitment Recruiting Metrics 70

Tom Spencer

MAY 14, 2015

I had originally intended to ask Nigel some questions about Pottinger and its recruitment process, but I thought better of it. Looking beyond short term financial metrics. Nigel is a truly original thinker who combines a good sense of humour with sharp strategic insights and clarity of thought. The need for continual innovation.

Metrics 60

Metrics Recruitment Recruiting Media 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. So which kind of data scientist should you be recruiting? Modeling Scientist Who consumes the output? Decision scientist: Humans. Who to hire.

Data 132

Data Engineering Software Operations 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, a study compared the commonly used crime risk analysis tool COMPAS against recidivism predictions from 400 untrained workers recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures. When models don’t perform as intended, people and process are normally to blame.

Data 124

Data Training Training Metrics 124

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. If that’s the case, weed out the deadwood and actively recruit people from different sectors, skill sets, and backgrounds who can help you test the quality of your macro answers.

Leadership 132

Leadership Agile Course Exercises 132

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

First off, you can expect to connect with a recruiter for a general phone interview. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager? The typical hiring process from application to offer will vary largely depending upon the position that you are applying for, but you can expect the timeline to take anywhere from 2-8 weeks.

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Culture Case Interview Interviews Transportation 100

Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. 100% recruiter efficiency. Here’s the second set of highlights from the conference: * Ariana Huffington, founder and CEO, Huffington Post – I was expecting a pretty good speech … I was blown away by Arianna. The results? 27% reduction in cost to hire.

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Conference Deloitte Hotels Education 108

Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

A 14-year-old from Pune, India—someone who would have had zero chance of being identified through traditional recruiting models. These techniques are now expanding out to non-technical fields—for example, one company we know recently launched a pilot problem-solving competition to identify talent in India. The winner?

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Company Talent Case Interview Sports 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Leaders are intimately involved in the architecture, culture, and metrics of the company, hiring people who can innovate and grow a business and holding them accountable with a minimum of midlevel management. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

Leadership 70

Leadership Metrics Operations Culture 70

Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

All these KPIs can be collected and organized in a simple social media metrics table. Identify social integration opportunities beyond marketing such as social media interactions that impact the sales force, customer service functions, R&D and HR department recruitment, and employee policies and engagement.

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Media Strategy& Strategy Strategy 70

Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

Talent 65

Talent Metrics Accenture Development 65

Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

Talent 65

Talent Metrics Accenture Development 65

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 136

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? If this is tough, ask the recruiter to set up chats with multiple potential managers. If the recruiter is willing to set up chats with multiple people, that’s generally a good sign. Scale of Investment.

Productivity 60

Productivity How To Recruitment Recruiting 60

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

The ideal metric needed to simultaneously address: (1) the sector’s competitive dynamics, (2) the firm’s productivity relative to its competitors, and (3) what could be attributed to the new CEO. But if a new CEO must be found, then recruiters may want to look outside rather than in. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 73

Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. . Purpose-driven Recruiting. In a global competition for talent , employers need to understand the major recruitment drivers for employees.

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Trends Finance Recruitment Recruiting 52

Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. . Purpose-driven Recruiting. In a global competition for talent , employers need to understand the major recruitment drivers for employees.

Trends 52

Trends Finance Recruitment Recruiting 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Fortunately, Paul had a very good relationship with his boss, who had recruited him because they’d previously worked together. “I hit or exceeded my metrics and deliverables every quarter [because] I knew that my boss was reporting those numbers to his boss.” “We bonded in a weird way,” says Paul.

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Case Study Case Studies Meeting Management 132

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. Now granted, not all engineering degrees are created equal. This emphasis on practicality will serve you well in consulting. The knock on engineering?

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Consulting Engineering Finance Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This would defeat the denial of service attacks — a type of cyber-attack that involves recruiting bots to hit a website with millions of requests that causes the website to go down or to provide poor response time. In most cases, the user will make a small micropayment (for example, one cent to read a news article).

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Marketing Advertising Media Video 130

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

So, a few minutes into your case interview, the recruiter slides a chart across the table and asks what you can tell from that particular exhibit. Taking into context the core objective, make a quick hypothesis based on the key metrics. Communicating your insights.

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Case Interview Interviews How To Data 88

LSA Global

JULY 8, 2024

Establish Performance Metrics for Each Role Define clear, measurable performance metrics to evaluate the success and failure in each key role. Performance metrics should be aligned with the organization’s strategic goals and can include quantitative, qualitative, leading, and lagging metrics.

Talent 51

Talent Metrics Culture Leadership 51