Posts Tagged ‘Malcolm Gladwell’
Key Selection Criteria: When less is more
Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, provided me with some fantastic insights about pattern recognition (or ‘thin-slicing’ as it’s referred to in the book) that I wrote about earlier this month. Another excellent part of the book, highly relevant for recruiters, is when Gladwell explores the ‘less is more’ syndrome. Gladwell asserts that in certain circumstances, receiving more information about…
Read MoreThin-slicing: How Malcolm Gladwell demystified one of my skills
A couple of years ago I ran a full day’s training for a Sydney recruitment agency. The nine participants, all recruiters with between six months and six years of recruitment experience; were all recruiters unfamiliar to me. I had never met any of them prior to the workshop nor had I had observed any of…
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