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Skilled
Attracts and selects diverse and high caliber talent.

Finds the right talent to meet the group’s needs.
Closes talent gaps with the right balance of internal and external candidates.
Is a good judge of talent.

Less skilled

• Haphazardly selects talent into the organization.
• Takes little action to match the talent to the role or organization.
• Is unclear about selection criteria or how to evaluate others’ skills.
• Selects people that are very similar to self.

Talented

• Actively seeks and secures the best talent available.
• Creates pipelines of talent for the future from both internal and external talent pools.
• Evaluates talent using a thorough and consistent process.

Overused skill

• Overanalyzes and fails to get people into roles quickly enough to meet the needs of the business.
• May overlook slow starters and quiet, less expressive talent.

Some possible causes of lower skill
Causes help explain why a person may have trouble with Attracts top talent. When seeking to increase
skill, it’s helpful to consider how these might play out in certain situations. And remember that all of these
can be addressed if you are motivated to do so.

• Lacks experience hiring people.
• Lacks courage to do something different.
• Narrow perspective on what talent looks like.

• Fears being shown up by a better person.
• Too impatient or afraid to let a mediocre candidate go in order to search for a better one.
• Doesn’t understand what the company needs; no knowledge of talent gaps.
• Unclear on selection criteria for hiring or staffing.

• Overreliance on undeveloped intuition.
• Selects candidates similar to current staff or self.
• Thinks anyone can pick up the skills on the job.

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