Generally speaking, talent recruitment done for the highest of echelons in the corporate world, is done on the basis of context. The context here refers to the kind of activities the company is going to get involved, the projects lined up and the innovations the company wants to scale up. However, this curated approach is not adopted at lower levels, where a broad-based talent pool is desired. Functional managers are required who can perform a wide variety of tasks depending on the situation. A study conducted by marketing research and advisory firm CEB, suggests that this divorce in recruitment strategies must be let go of, as the curated style works best for all levels. According to this report compiled by the company now acquired by Gartner, it was understood that leaders who rose up the ranks and were successful were recruited when their skillsets got well-aligned with company perspectives. Twenty-seven contextual challenges have been identified, which need to be ticked off depending the current needs. This approach towards handling talent clearly goes against the conventional wisdom of imparting broad training programmed intended at covering a wide spectrum of skills.

Source:https://hbr.org/2017/09/when-hiring-execs-context-matters-most

Uploaded Date:15 November 2017