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Why Hiring Managers Should Favor Drive Over Intelligence
When choosing between several highly desirable candidates, hiring managers face a complicated decision, and have to weigh a variety of factors to determine which one offers the most potential. Do they choose the Harvard graduate who spent his early career at McKinsey? Or should they pick the candidate with the infectious personality and can-do attitude,…
4 Reasons Hiring an Outsider is Good for Your Business
Talent on-demand offers a number of advantages to your business. Some are obvious: Consultants and contractors provide the resources you need to keep work moving while you search for longer-term solutions. Or, they can simply handle a one-time assignment that’s important to address. At the same time, they can enhance your operations in more subtle…
5 Steps to Finding and Hiring the Right Data Scientists
The first step in hiring the right data scientist is being sure your organization is ready for one. While companies talk about “big data” and “analytics” almost as if they were silver bullets, the field is still new enough that some underuse their analytics staff by having them focus on compiling reports rather than putting…
The Cost of a Bad Hire in Analytics: $99,000
I have been amazed lately by how many of “the usual suspects” keep getting hired in important analytics roles around the country. It bothers me because I have seen the harm and the cost that hiring these folks caused past employers. Who are “the usual suspects?” Analytics professionals that have all of the right words…
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