“It feels like women have to jump through flaming hoops to make it to the top of the corporate ladder,” Fortune writes in a recent article, “but even when they’re outperforming their coworkers, female employees still bear the brunt of criticism.” Case in point: According to a recent study by Textio, over 75% of top-performing
Consider the following candidates: a young man with a master’s degree in mathematics from New York University who holds a patent and has passed his Level 1 Chartered Financial Analyst exam. Or a young woman with dual degrees from Pace University who speaks three languages. What do they have in common? Both are recent graduates
I’ve worked with hundreds of organizations large and small to help them build world-class hiring and interviewing practices. Some of the outcomes have been transformative and some (admittedly) have not. There is one factor, above all, that most strongly predicts the outcome. If this factor is present, results can be quite dramatic. Hiring managers and
Picture this: For months, you’ve been working hard on the strategy for a new learning program. Maybe you’ve even done a full analysis on performance gaps and gathered data to illuminate the most effective direction. You know that the strategy aligns to larger corporate goals and now it’s time to present your findings and strategy
Talent density. It’s a term that’s been popping up in LinkedIn feeds and recruiting newsletters a lot over the past couple of months. Here at the Talent Blog, we recently wrote about talent density, diving into a short history of the term and laying out some of its pros and cons as a talent strategy.
Sometimes, you need big, bold ideas to move the world forward. The printing press. The electric lightbulb. The personal computer. Each of these inventions profoundly changed the world and each started with someone saying, “I’ve got a great idea.” The same holds true for learning and development. At this very moment, learning leaders around the
When Michael Damiano, the London-based head of rare disease and rare blood disorders for UKIE at Sanofi, brought up for paternity leave the first time, he was “apprehensive and quite nervous.” Yet he ended up taking it three times, twice for the birth of his sons and now for the recent birth of his daughter.
Some candidates just light you up. They’re socially graceful. They’re engaging on the phone or Zoom. And their references are stellar. But can that sales candidate you find so charming actually sell? And can the nursing candidate you love make all the right decisions in an emergency? One way to find out is to give
Recruiting can be a very forward-thinking discipline. We are constantly looking toward tech and the future of AI to optimize how we hire candidates. But what if there was something so simple, and so obvious, that every single recruiter and talent leader could adopt it right now and it would transform their approach to candidate
If you’re looking to get ahead at work —whether that’s by getting promoted, nailing your next big presentation, or stepping up as a leader — the key could be charisma, or “rizz” as Gen Z likes to call it. For introverts and those of us who feel a little “rizz-less,” don’t despair. Charisma, The Wall Street
