To keep up with a rapidly evolving job market, hiring practices need to change, too. In this practical talk, talent strategy expert Nithya Vaduganathan shares five crucial tips every hiring manager (and job seeker) should know in order to cultivate an inclusive work culture, inspire productivity and unleash talent hiding in plain sight.
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Thato Mofolo
January 6, 2023 at 12:02 pm
Fun facts 🥊🥊💯
UmeshYadav1220
January 6, 2023 at 12:05 pm
speecher is very 👌👌👌👌
..o
January 6, 2023 at 12:12 pm
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Eric Patton
January 6, 2023 at 12:30 pm
I’d strongly disagree a successful financial advisor isn’t a high GPA and works well in teams. Sales experience, desire to succeed, willingness to work long hours (nights and weekends) is the common denominator.
Dee
January 6, 2023 at 12:38 pm
Reward mediocracy is what she’s saying 👏🏼
Eric Comp
January 6, 2023 at 12:48 pm
You’re not special and we let you eat!
A god in the gap
January 6, 2023 at 1:00 pm
You obiously watched the video … but you haven’t listened to anything she said, have you?
Steven c
January 6, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Just pay your workers, give them health benefits, an give them paid holidays sick days vacation plus maternity/ paternity leave. You know be more like Europe…..
Br_Phoenix
January 6, 2023 at 1:54 pm
As a European, I 100% agree with this statement
Steven c
January 7, 2023 at 11:12 am
Even if you don’t want to pay your workers or give them time off, but want great workers that are loyal to your company, you would think they would have mentioned in this video on site job training. If you can’t find someone with 5 years experience for a programing position or electrician, just send them to school or teach them on site. There are jobs that take the cost of training or education out of the workers pay. So if you hate workers an your sole concern in society is making a profit, then still this videos suggestions are poor.
trygswyrm woodside
January 6, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Hate when these people talk about “outdated practices” when they are still doing the 1990s spam of buzzwords. Cultivate, Inspire, Culture, Unleash… come on. Enough is enough. Talk to people like they are real human beings, give them the pay real human beings need, allow them the insurance that is necessary for real human beings.
Jeffrey Hill
January 6, 2023 at 1:06 pm
Companies move people into new roles all the time, they just don’t pay the same as a external candidate. So that new opportunity starts to feel like the company is taking advantage of you. This can also make an employee too needed to promote to management. In the end, an employee has more skills and less pay , few promotion opportunities inside the company, but outside begins to look better and better.
LET'S GROW
January 6, 2023 at 1:07 pm
Added so much value to my life and kind of intresting though 🙂
Jeffrey Hill
January 6, 2023 at 1:08 pm
Do the internal job search first, if an external candidate learns that an internal candidate was hired, they are unlikely to ever apply to that company again. Why waste the time on an interview when they already have someone in mind.
Gage
January 6, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Being and average student in high school and college, I’m not certain a “high GPA” is that important. Many high functioning, excellent candidates may have have been bored with school. Let’s face it, our school system hasn’t kept up with the change either. We still have obnoxious Union school teachers who are looking at the clock just like us. Also, let’s consider “school boards.” Look who composes your school board locally and you’ll find it’s full of fundamentalists activists unwilling to allow the teaching of actual science or want ridiculous alternative formats. This goes for the left and the right. We need to fundamentally change how school boards at the local level for elementary through high school function. Teachers need to be paid and school ought to be all year long with a lot of fun included.
We need to pay our teachers very well and get rid of the Union.
World Best Educational Systems – Top 20 Countries
1. South Korea
2. Japan
3. Netherlands
4. Belgium
5. Canada
6. Singapore
7. Denmark
8. Finland
9. Ireland
10. France
11. Norway
12. Slovenia
13. Lithuania
14. Hong Kong
15. China
16. United Kingdom
17. Israel
18. United States
19. Portugal
20. Germany
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DD PWE
January 6, 2023 at 5:24 pm
It’s funny, you’re called United States, but with how everything works, you’d think it was just 52 individual countries, all lying to each other that they’re apart of something bigger. That just keeps falling apart, everywhere. Yet, have no problem overspending, by absurd numbers on your military. Maybe, just MAYBE, if you guys got your priorities straightened out from the top, then you wouldn’t be so worried about teachers being in a union. Only people who are scared, overspend on military like this, giving the middle finger to the entire country. smh
Carson Hunt
January 6, 2023 at 9:51 pm
Yea having been through uni, and managed grad students, couple phds, along with high school dropouts, I barely noticed any correlation between iq. College kids were a bit more entitled with a worse work ethic was about the only difference.
Here’s a life hack as interviewer/recruiter, ask if the candidate played sports. They tend to have some discipline and ability to work with teammates better than children that did nothing but be coddled by parents.
Bobby Dennis
January 6, 2023 at 4:07 pm
2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
Justin Griffin
January 6, 2023 at 4:08 pm
I think the World Economic Forum got control of TED. It seems so contrived nowadays…
ken juan
January 6, 2023 at 7:16 pm
5:45 Except the company wouldn’t pay you the same way they’d pay an external candidate that’s why moving companies is often the best choice. I once moved to a lower position in a new company almost doubling my wage…imagine how insane I would look asking my current employer to double my wage….they’d rather spend all the time, resources and money finding a new candidate and possibly even taking a hit that in the long run would have be more expensive but that’s the chance companies take to save a buck and most times it works sadly so they are incentivized to take the risk.
Carson Hunt
January 6, 2023 at 9:54 pm
In the modern era of online tinder applicants for jobs, it’s cheaper to replace than promote from within. Too many replacements available.
Boomers are outdated in their decades old “work hard and work your way up” nonsense, that’s not how the world works anymore.
Katarina Janoskova
January 6, 2023 at 9:51 pm
I’m looking for a job and it absolutely sucks.
If you haven’t already worked in the same role, they won’t hire you. I feel like most people are pigeonholed into doing some small thing with an obscure job title. The lists of requirements are long and seem pointless. I’m sure you don’t need me to know all of photoshop or Excel for this marketing role.
Why not give people a chance at doing what they are interested in?
Tbf, I just don’t know how to proceed 🙁
Dd Al
January 7, 2023 at 9:29 am
Because often your interests don’t coincide with what the company needs or has to deal with.
HashSl1ng1ngSlasher
January 7, 2023 at 3:32 pm
its a volume game. Just apply EVERYWHERE regardless of requirements. I’m still in college and been doing that, you wouldn’t believe some of the random interviews of gotten. Simultaneously, there are GROCERY STORES that refuse to hire me.
mybestideas1
January 7, 2023 at 8:38 pm
I’m in the same boat here. I actually have both worked in the same role, and have all these requirements, as I had 25 years of experience. And yet they hire someone who does not have all required.
p.s. I’m also in Marketing and for the smaller companies you will need expert knowledge of Photoshop, advanced Excel and project management. You also might need to have additional languages. One of the hardest professions to be in.
Joshua W
January 7, 2023 at 1:34 am
There is huge shortage of workers in every industry at the moment because of 2 things: COVID and underpopulation. We used to rely on skilled migrants to perform many of our jobs, but since COVID they all went back to their own countries. Now to top it off we have a population that is getting smaller rather than bigger so that just makes the shortage even worse.
Brian Taylor
January 7, 2023 at 3:23 am
Wanting 10 yrs experience, master degree, 800 credit store, a background check more intensive that the Secret Service and pay minimum wage.
Brian Taylor
January 7, 2023 at 3:23 am
Wanting 10 yrs experience, master degree, 800 credit score, a background check more intensive that the Secret Service and pay minimum wage.
Christy Nicholas, Author
January 7, 2023 at 3:35 pm
Can we also let recruiters know that cold-calling people who are NOT actively looking for a job is intrusive and rude? I have NOT LOOKING on my LinkedIn, took my resume off Monster and Indeed, and haven’t been looking for over a year. I still get 2-3 calls A DAY from recruiters, interrupting my work flow and wasting my time and theirs. And for jobs not even close to my career level.
Email? Fine. I can read an email at my leisure and decide if it’s worth my time, and just delete. Or, if I know someone who it might be a better fit for, I can forward that with a couple of clicks. But phone calls? No. Only follow up with a live phone call IF I actually respond to an email. If you call, I will definitely NOT pass on that information to another candidate, because it just shows you don’t value my time at all.
And emailing, texting, and calling, all at once? JUST STOP. It’s outdated and just tells me that the recruiter is NOT using updated data or reasonable screening techniques, and that I never want to work with them to find a job in the future.
mybestideas1
January 7, 2023 at 8:37 pm
Ever since we invented HR department and their ‘specials’ we have issues being hired.
Yann Dupont
January 8, 2023 at 4:55 pm
– Hiring managers often prioritize internal candidates and focus on the skills that matter the most.
– Many job requirements are not predictive of success in the job and may be overly restrictive.
– Removing degree requirements and focusing on the work that needs to be done can help companies find more diverse and qualified candidates.
– Supporting internal talent can lead to more diverse, innovative, and effective project teams.
– Lack of career advancement is a common reason for employees leaving their jobs.
Jonás Carrillo
January 8, 2023 at 10:02 pm
Bs
CrinkleJoy
January 9, 2023 at 6:50 am
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