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Spencer Green
Chairman, GDS International

Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'

A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?
24 May 2011
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Munish Gupta
Posted: 19 April 2010 @ 11:51

The techniques mentioned above are good and they serve the companies to an extent. But when companies are in search of niche talent all over the world, they face hurdles in two folds – a) how to reach out to the right forum where the required niche talent frequent and b) how to screen and shortlist

Reaching out to social forums like linkedin or facebook allows companies to reach the talent, but the next question how do the enterprise verify what the candidate is mentioning on his profile is correct or not. How does an enterprise create a pull so that the right candidate themselves are attracted to your brand.

Read out an innovative approach to attract niche talent - http://blog.ideaken.com/2010/04/innovative-approach-to-attract-niche.html

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