Survey: What Attracts Top Tech Talent?
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 19, 2022
They’re looking for more than money.
Data-Driven Recruiting (Part 1 – Networking)
Tom Spencer
JUNE 30, 2018
As consultants (or those recruiting to be consultants), we’re asked to handle and analyze vast amounts of information. However, while recruiting, how many of us actually pursue a data-driven approach to getting an interview? However, I hope to at least better guide your recruiting efforts with this series of posts.
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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market
Harvard Business
APRIL 7, 2016
If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. Looking for Millennials?
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To Land a Great Job, Talk About Why You Love Your Work
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2018
When interviewing for your next job, how can you impress your recruiter and increase your chances of securing a job offer? This comprises your intrinsic motivation for the job, and most of us understand how important it can be to sustained engagement at work; but do recruiters care to hear this? TOSHINORI TARUI.
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131 Networking How To – Building Your Consulting Asset File
Management Consulted
JULY 1, 2012
In May, we did a survey of our subscriber list and the #1 topic you want to know more about is networking. Before we get started, check out our core post on networking the “normal way” – at info sessions and through target school types of recruiting opportunities. Think of it as a 101 on consulting networking.
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What Demographics Forms Say About Inclusivity at Your Company
Harvard Business
MARCH 27, 2024
The seemingly mundane choices companies make when designing demographics forms — such as those used in job applications or employee engagement surveys — can have relatively major implications. Decision makers may not recognize these implications, though.
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Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies: Are They Aligned Enough?
LSA Global
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Employee Experience encompasses the entirety of an employees journey with the organization from recruitment, to interviews , to new employee orientation all the way to exit interviews and offboarding. It also involves the workplace environment and the quality of interactions with managers and peers (e.g.,
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Data Driven Recruiting (Part 2 – Invite-Only Events)
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 4, 2018
Welcome back to the data driven recruiting series! Source: Stern Student Records and Student Survey. Regression analysis showed that, when controlling for an individual’s qualifications and recruiting efforts, the predictive power of an invitation to an invite-only event on the odds of receiving an interview are close to zero.
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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem
Harvard Business
JUNE 29, 2016
RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. But they need help.
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133 Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY
Harvard Business
MARCH 28, 2017
In a new Korn Ferry Futurestep global survey of more than 1,100 talent acquisition professionals, 54 percent said it’s harder to find qualified talent now than it was just one year ago. The same study found that identifying people with the right skills in a rapidly changing market is the top issue impacting recruiting.
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104 How to Strengthen Your Reputation as an Employer
Harvard Business
MAY 16, 2018
A new study by my firm, Weber Shandwick, in partnership with KRC Research, found that only 19% of the nearly 2,000 global employees we surveyed feel strongly that the work experience their employer promotes publicly is matched by reality. The recruiting blog is now the second most popular among Cisco’s more than 50 blogs.
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HR Leaders Need Stronger Data Skills
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. We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey.
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132 Looking Beyond H-1B Visas to Find Tech Talent
Harvard Business
JUNE 22, 2017
As a result, tech hiring managers are now racing to recruit from a very small pool of domestic candidates. Many have doubled down on their recruitment efforts by increasing their spending on LinkedIn and Facebook ads or by attending local networking events to attract candidates. Census Bureau.
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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights
Management Consulted
AUGUST 28, 2013
He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. Booz Surveys; Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton; and more.
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Best Place to Work Surveys – Fact or Fiction?
The Thirsty Dog
APRIL 29, 2014
If you've worked in corporate America in the last 5-10 years you have undoubtedly taken a 'Best Place to Work' survey for your company. But do they reflect the reality within the companies they survey or an altered state of perception? The post Best Place to Work Surveys – Fact or Fiction? Let's bust this myth.
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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest. For eight out of 10 skill areas that we listed, at least 65% of respondents said that an aspiring founder should give high or very high priority to acquiring skills in that domain. ” Could these findings be skewed by the fact that we surveyed MBA alumni?
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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2016
After our six-month trial period, we surveyed the team to determine if this arrangement was a viable and successful long-term benefit of working for our department. The survey found that 100% of the team said they would recommend working remotely to other departments. You and Your Team Series. Turning Stress into an Asset.
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132 This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things
Harvard Business
MARCH 14, 2017
This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. From its inception, the company consciously recruiting scientists who rebelled against big pharma bureaucracy and were open to new ways of working.
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To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week
Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2018
We created a survey and reached out after their first week and then again after 90 days to learn about new hires’ experiences and first impressions of Microsoft. In an effort to better understand what we thought of as “early attrition,” we turned to an obvious opportunity that had been overlooked.
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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program
Harvard Business
MARCH 30, 2018
In STEM fields, both the private and public sectors continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color. We kept this in mind when creating our own workplace diversity program.
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A 5-Step Process to Get More Out of Your Organization’s Data
Harvard Business
MARCH 16, 2017
His department sends out a survey for all employees to fill out every six months. The survey did not collect data in a reliable, validated way. Design a more rigorous survey with better measures. Performance reviews and employee surveys were managed by the HR team, whereas data on turnover was held by the operations team.
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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
We conducted a survey of over 5,000 board members from around the world to find out. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge.
PR Agencies Need to Be More Diverse and Inclusive. Here’s How to Start.
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2018
While many recognized the importance of changing recruitment to create more-diverse workforces, only a few recognized that hiring a diverse staff would not guarantee a sense of inclusion among those hired. ” A lack of inclusion can sometimes be seen in employee surveys. .”
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Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly
Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2018
Surveys have found that many employees complain that managers are “too busy” to meet with them, listen to their concerns, or update them about decisions. In our first study, we recruited 107 managers in the United States to complete two daily surveys for 10 workdays. We examined these questions via three studies.
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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
However, a new survey by my HR advisory firm Future Workplace called “The Employee Experience” reveals the reality is that employees crave something far more fundamental and essential to human needs. Listen to your employees to understand what type of workplace environment they want.
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133 Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials
Harvard Business
AUGUST 21, 2018
Economists have recently begun to suspect that the shift was caused by a decrease in “ recruitment intensity.” Lower recruitment intensity increases the time it takes to fill a job, which means more unfilled jobs and a higher job openings rate for a given level of unemployment. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s
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127 6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common
Harvard Business
APRIL 27, 2018
A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. How did they do it? The deep investment pays off.
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People Want 3 Things from Work, But Most Companies Are Built Around Only One
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
We survey our workforce twice a year, asking what employees value most. You could recruit, motivate, and retain people by promising a great career or a close-knit community or a meaningful cause. In our most recent survey, more than a quarter of Facebook employees rated all three buckets as important. ” Survey says: false.
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134 Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better
Harvard Business
APRIL 28, 2017
It turns out that trainings can be an effective mechanism for educating employees and inspiring behavior change: our post-training surveys indicate that 96% of participants leave intending to engage in behaviors to reduce bias.
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Why Bcc-ing the Boss Is a Bad Practice
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
In this survey, we mentioned to our participants (recruited via ProA; 34 females and 24 males; average work experience of 17.38 In two subsequent studies (participants were recruited again via ProA), we tested whether these two “administrative” explanations would soften recipients’ negative perceptions of the sender.
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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2017
In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. And in another survey, 87% said they cannot calculate quantifiable returns on their learning investments. When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them.
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Employees Who Use Social Media for Work Are More Engaged — but Also More Likely to Leave Their Jobs
Harvard Business
MAY 17, 2018
In the first part of the study I surveyed the employees about why and how they used platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. In my research with 277 employees of a healthcare organization I found these concerns to be misguided. Social media doesn’t reduce productivity nearly as much as it kills employee retention.
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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews – Moving Up in a Down Economy
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Litigation: Antitrust and Competition, Class Actions and Class Certification, Commercial Litigation and Damages, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labor and Employment, Mass Torts and Product Liability, Securities and Finance, Statistical Sampling and Analysis, Survey Research, Design and Analysis. . Employee Lifestyle. .
The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2018
In fact, at Duarte, the communication consultancy where I’m Chief Strategy Officer, we conducted a survey of over 200 leading company executives and found that 69% of respondents said that they were planning to launch or are currently conducting a change effort. But the truth is that most leaders don’t actually know how to do it.
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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 11, 2016
. “ Employer branding ” is no longer simply a concern for recruitment marketing; it is also a key component of effective organizational leadership. With this in mind, my firm Universum recently conducted a survey to determine what the best global employers are doing to convince workers to join and stay with them.
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Research: How Incentive Pay Affects Employee Engagement, Satisfaction, and Trust
Harvard Business
MARCH 15, 2017
The main issues covered in the interviews related to workplace characteristics, recruitment and training initiatives, pay determination, payment systems, and workplace performance. The survey provided information on working arrangements, working hours, work intensity, and well-being. This amounted to 13,657 employees.
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Why Even AI-Powered Factories Will Have Jobs for Humans
Harvard Business
AUGUST 8, 2018
The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Telsa, for instance, is recruiting robot engineers, computer vision scientists, deep learning scientists, and machine learning systems engineers.
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129 Interview with Steward from A.T. Kearney Shanghai – Life as a Consultant series
Management Consulted
JANUARY 29, 2009
While in college, I worked for a large real estate research firm, hence my first real job was literally doing questionnaire surveys on the street. As long as you take care of your GPA , these experiences show initiative, build your network, and are extremely valuable during the recruiting process.
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How to Use Employee Referrals Without Giving Up Workplace Diversity
Harvard Business
MARCH 15, 2018
Other demographic, job, and employer details were also collected as part of the survey. Besides lowering recruitment costs , companies love referrals because they can lead to higher employee engagement. Between April and August 2017, PayScale asked approximately 53,000 U.S.
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7 Factors of Great Office Design
Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2016
We created a version of our index as an online survey that feeds us input in a more systematic way and as a means of reaching more people — you could, too, if your organizations are more accustomed to engaging in surveys online rather than in person. And people wanted more meeting spaces that could be used quickly and informally.
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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2017
In a recent survey , 30% of respondents predicted that AI will be the biggest disruptor to their industry in the next five years. Corporate job openings pull in about 250 résumés apiece, and over half of surveyed recruiters say shortlisting qualified candidates is the most difficult part of their job. Related Video.
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Access to Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality
Harvard Business
MAY 17, 2016
Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries, exploring their use of technology, including access to devices like smartphones and wireless wearable devices, and the frequency with which they use them.
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117 Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
While the focus of many spaces is to create new digital products and services, evidence from broader coworking surveys suggests other roles could benefit from this practice. User satisfaction surveys consistently rank them as the favorite aspect of corporate coworking. Now, do these spaces work in promoting innovation?
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127 How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY
Harvard Business
MARCH 28, 2017
In a new global survey of 7,500 global leaders by Korn Ferry, executives identified accelerating innovation and improving profitability among the top three business priorities in their organizations. Lack of leader engagement throughout the organization is jeopardizing strategic change initiatives, the survey found.
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