The accidental talent

Talent Management: the Construction of Talent

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Recruiting Talent

We propose a model of firm dynamics in which a firm’s primary asset is the talent of its workforce. Firms compete in wages to attract applicants, and managers seek to identify the most talented. Over time, a firm’s quality evolves as today’s recruits become tomorrow’s managers. We show that firm-applicant matching is positive assortative, with better firms posting higher wages and attracting be...

Savant talent.

The notion of talent is an elusive concept but there appears to be sound evidence that both savants and experts share important qualities. Brief descriptive accounts of the talents displayed by savants are presented, along with a discussion of intelligence, implicit learning, and the organization of knowledge. Cognitive theories helpful in understanding exceptional abilities in people with auti...

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

Looking for TALENT in all the wrong places! Finding the talent you need!

Defining Talent Let’s define talent as a combination of three things what we know via training, education and experience, what we like to do, and what we can handle in terms of complexity, and then, let’s define jobs in the same way what you must know, what you must do, and what level of complexity is involved. Once this is done, we can easily put round pegs in round holes, square pegs in squar...