Maximise your next job interview
In the current economic climate, it’s not easy — even with the best of qualifications — to receive a job offer. Often, your interview with a prospective employer is critical in increasing your chances of being hired.
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The Paradox of Indispensability
The logic that shapes the first half of your career can leave you trapped in the second half. Managers make predictable mistakes that, despite their technical expertise and stellar performance, can lead high-fliers to fail to rise to the top.
Truth in hiring
To what extent do candidates overstate their good points and omit or mask their shortcomings? Does this affect the likelihood that interviewers will incorrectly assess a candidate’s suitability for a job? Daniel Cable talks with eBSR about his findings.
The Skill Gap: Asian Style
One of the paradoxes of contemporary business life is that, just as unemployment soars, the number of unfilled vacancies increases. In the USA right now there are over 3 million unfilled jobs, while in countries like Spain, youth unemployment stands at a jaw dropping 47%. The extent of the gap between what employers need and what the labour market provides in terms of skills and talents seems to be continuously widening.
Bringing — and sustaining — change
The world keeps changing, and organisations need to keep up. Yet, when change is initiated, how much time does a leader have to create true momentum for needed change within the firm? Chris Phillips-Maund says it’s not as long as you might think.
What do you want to be?
The in-demand careers of the future will be very different from those of the not so recent past. Lynda Gratton’s research reveals the must-have careers of the future.
How passive face time could make or break your career
Dan Cable, Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, has been studying ‘passive face time’ and drawing some fascinating conclusions.
Predicting the future of work
Over the last year, Lynda Gratton led a research consortium of 21 companies and over 200 executives from around the world in an exploration of the look and feel of tomorrow's workplace.
In search of tomorrow’s leaders
Companies depend on a regular flow of leadership talent. But where are they to find it and how can they develop it? A research programme at London Business School aims to help.
Mismanaging pay and performance
Understanding the relationship between performance measurement and desired behaviours is an important element of a company’s talent management.
Start filling your talent gap - now
As businesses steer their way out of turbulence, they have a unique opportunity to identify their leadership supply and demand and close the talent gap in their organization.
The global talent hunt
Richard Emerton explains how the new “triple context” of economy, environment and society will have profound implications for human resource practices. He suggests that viewing talent as abundant is the right perspective for a manager.
Boosting strategy with an online community
A programme that merged online communities with strategic development and implementation at Nokia has provided valuable lessons about the new ways employees are able to engage and interact. Lynda Gratton and Joel Casse tell how “deep involvement” evolved
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