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Recruitment - What Youre Really, Really Looking For

Imagine that you're a sports coach and you need a new playeron the team. Would you walk up to someone in the street andsay - "I want you to come and play for my team. I'll trainyou to become the best player in the country." Sounds a bitridiculous doesn't it?

Imagine that you're a

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sports coach and you need a new playeron the team. Would you walk up to someone in the street andsay - "I want you to come and play for my team. I'll trainyou to become the best player in the country." Sounds a bitridiculous doesn't it?

What you'd probably do is watch players in other teams. Onthe other hand, you might decide to find some young playerthat you could develop for your team. So you'd spend sometime looking for players in schools and

A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, self-motivation and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.
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colleges.

What is it you're looking for when you're watching theseyoung people or more established players? Is it experienceof the

The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues (see for example electoral college, College of Arms). Originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, "together" + leg-, "law"); indeed, some colleges call their members "fellows". The precise usage of the term varies among English-speaking countries.
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game or perhaps an all round knowledge of how itshould be played or even just a good all round player.All of these would be good to have but what you're reallylooking for is - talent!

You're looking for that gift or flair or capacity to achieveyour outcomes.If you're looking for a goal keeper, then you're looking forsomeone with that extra something that keeps the oppositionfrom scoring. If you're looking for a shooter, or a wingeror a quarter back then it's the same story, you're lookingfor talent.

It doesn't really matter how long they've been aplayer or whether they have a great knowledge of the game -you just need them to produce results.

It's no different when you're picking someone new for yourteam - you're looking for talent. And it's a differenttalent for every job. It could be:

The talent to strip down an engine and rebuild it inrecord time

The talent to make other people feel at ease

The talent to produce reports that are clear and easy toread

The talent to persuade people to buy your product orservice

Be absolutely clear what you need this person to do - keepin the forefront of your mind the outcomes that you'll beultimately judged on.

Use your talent, be happy

It's important the person you employ is happy in their newjob. Think for a moment about something you're good at, atalent that you have, something you can do better than lotsof people. Do you enjoy doing whatever it is, does it makeyou happy? I'm sure it does.

When people use their talent in their job - what they dobest, it makes them happy. It makes the customer happy, itmakes the boss happy and it makes the person moreproductive.Sad to say it's not like that out in the world.

The Gallup Organisation did some research by asking millionsof employees from countries throughout the world to respondto this statement -

"At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday." The results were staggering; only 30% of employeeswere able to reply in the affirmative. And it's extremelyunlikely that the remaining 70% will achieve world-classperformance.

If you want success in your

A game is a structured or semi-structured recreational activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment (although sometimes for physical or vocational training). A goal that the players try to reach and a set of rules concerning what the players can or cannot do create the challenge and structure in a game, and are thus central to its definition.
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business and in your team -Pick people for what they do best, what they have a talentfor.

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In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate revenue.

The etymology of "business" refers to the state of being busy, in the context of the individual as well as the community or society. In other words, to be busy is to be doing commercially viable and profitable work.
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Recruitment - What Youre Really, Really Looking For

Imagine that you're a sports coach and you need a new playeron the team. Would you walk up to someone in the street andsay - "I want you to come and play for my team. I'll trainyou to become the best player in the country." Sounds a bitridiculous doesn't it?

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