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                                                    May 2014   
In this issue...
The Root Cause of Most Hiring Mistakes
It Pays to Be Overconfident
Even With Flextime, Get to Work Early
Stop With the Unicorn Job Descriptions
Is Your Job At Risk From Robot Labor?
Google's Simple Formula for Killer Resumes
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Here's our monthly digest of articles to help you hire, retain and inspire great people.  

 

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The Root Cause of Most Hiring Mistakes  

Studies show that executive "discretionary time" is rarely more than 5-10 hours per week. The rest of your time is preprogrammed - meetings, turning in things requested by others, people walking into your office with a crisis, etc.

 

This discretionary time crunch is nothing new. Peter Drucker noted the same dilemma 60 years ago. But a lack of discretionary time makes it deeply and profoundly inconvenient to find the extra time necessary to hire well. And it may be the root of most hiring mistakes. More...

It Pays to Be Overconfident, Even When You Have No Idea What You're Doing Overconfidence  

 

What's the benefit to being supremely overconfident in yourself? New research shows that "greater confidence leads to greater peer-rated social skill and greater peer-rated task ability, regardless of actual ability." (emphasis mine) 

 
This doesn't mean you should instantly adopt a political pundit's level of overconfidence (or I'd pity your coworkers), but hiding your anxieties beneath an armor of confidence may be extremely beneficial to your professional advancement. More...

Want to get ahead in your career? Even if your job allows for flexible scheduling, you'll probably still want to get into the office early. A new study shows that managers have a "morning bias...they buy into a common stereotype that leads them to confuse starting time with conscientiousness." No matter the quality of your work or how many hours you work in total, employees who start earlier are rated more highly by their managers. More...

 

We've all enjoyed the chance to work with people who demonstrate an extraordinary combination of talents. But when hiring, it's a fool's errand to design new jobs around the skills of one unique and extraordinary person. Or worse, to write a job description without considering whether people actually exist in your job market who can fill it.

Is Your Job At Risk From Robot Labor?

  

Who doesn't love a fun interactive infographic? Don't skip the instructions (like I did). Pick a job category and see if you're in a job that's likely to be automated, or if your daily tasks require enough social intelligence and creativity to keep you safe from an automated replacement for the foreseeable future. More...

 

 

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If asked, most people would recognize and understand the moral of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. But the toxic effects of your own excessive pride can be much harder to see out in your actual life (especially if you're too overconfident in your odds of success).

 

Before it becomes truly dangerous to your business results, here's how to diffuse a tendency toward hubris.

Google Just Revealed the Incredibly Simple Formula for Killer Resumes
Laszlo Bock, Google's SVP of People Operations is well known for admitting that Google's infamous brain-teaser interview questions were a complete waste of time. 
 
In a recent interview, he offered up words of wisdom on the best approach to writing a concrete, effective resume. Here's what to do.