THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Talent

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms" - Holmes

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Be Your Own Talent Scout

How do you go about finding the right candidate for a job? If you are like most people, you look around for the right internal candidate. If that doesn't work out, then you conduct an outside search. To do this, you go fishing — placing ads and hiring recruiters, and then seeing what lands in your net. You might find a few competent candidates this way, but odds are you certainly won't get the real talent you need.
By "talent," I mean three things.

Competence, of course, is critical — the candidate must be able to do required tasks well. But equally important is character, by which I mean solid ethics and especially the ability to inspire trust. And he or she must play demonstrably well with others on the team. I've learned that if a person doesn't have all three of those characteristics in spades, it becomes very difficult to do my job, and for others to do theirs.

Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. To find these people, you have to develop a long-term, very consistent strategy. Here are some things that have worked very well for me:

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