Author Archives: Anne Hamill

So you’re considering hiring Professional Apprentices at 18, in addition to graduates at 21. What do those 3 years of independent study bring to graduates? What do 18 year olds potentially do better?

One of the best things you can do for your graduates, high potentials and Board aspirants is to provide an Image & Power session for them with a consultant who really knows their stuff. Why?

It’s official – the UK economy is now showing strong growth. How does this impact our talent strategy? The immediate risk is of a ‘brain drain’. Many talented people have been frustrated by slow career progress during the 5 years of economic crisis and recession.

Assessment Centres are part of many early talent selection processes. Also, Development Centres are often used to direct the development of high talent populations. There are good reasons for this – if you want an accurate and objective picture, a combination of different approaches to assessment has a good correlation with performance a year down the track. But as with all selection and development processes,

There are a variety of ways to track and rate employees – and when it comes to talent we’re usually looking to identify the very high performers and those with high potential. However, one of the problems with this approach is that we tend to assume that if someone is capable of doing a bigger job then they will actually want to do it. However, that may not always be the case…