Magic Pot of Jobs

Say what y’all like about the new Recruiting.com format (I haven’t totally made up my mind yet), I do have to say that I’m finding a lot more interesting stuff from other blogs on it.

Like this fantastic post I read today about why big companies lose their best talent. This is a topic I feel particularly passionate about these days.

My favorite one is #5:

Shifting Whims/Strategic Priorities. I applaud Yahoo!’s plans to build an incubator or “brickhouse” around their talent, by giving them new exciting projects to work on. The challenge for most organizations is not setting up a strategic priority, like establishing an incubator, but sticking with it a year or two from now. Top talent hates to be “jerked around.” If you commit to a project that they will be heading up, you’ve got to give them enough opportunity to deliver what they’ve promised.

Aside from just generally hating to be jerked around, top talent craves interesting work, and if you take away their proverbial cookie, they don’t have much reason to stay. If you aren’t providing your top talent with interesting work, I guarantee your competitors will.

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