How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles
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How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles
couldn't figure out what a receptionist would do. And executive assistants, we don't have those either. So on the subject of hiring, I don't look at a head count budget when I think of hiring people. I wait until I see the need for someone—when I can carve out a job description that's 80 percent full on the day someone starts—and that's when I'll o
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