Wednesday Feb 15, 2023

Ep 019: How Realistic is Hiring a Purple Squirrel?

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, was a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore, and was Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce from 1990-1998.

Mr. Cappelli was recently named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential management thinkers, by NPR as one of the 50 influencers in the field of aging, and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He received the PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to human resources, the Michael Losey Award for Research Contributions from the Society for Human Resource Management, and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Liege in Belgium.

Peter is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and writes a monthly column for HR Executive magazine. His work on performance management, agile systems, hiring practices, and other workplace topics appears in the Harvard Business Review. His book is The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We Face.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show: https://www.workpositive.today/peter-cappelli

☀️ Why attracting top talent should not be easy and how to avoid hiring the wrong people.

☀️ Be honest and tell the candidate “what the may not like about the job”.

☀️ How to attract high performers.

☀️ Best practices for hiring successful candidates.

☀️ The problem with internal job boards.

☀️ Why do people leave their job?

☀️ How offering employees an opportunity to do stretch assignments can help retain employees.

☀️ Peter’s best practices for more effective supervisors.

☀️ Why supervisors should check in with their direct reports.

Connect with Peter:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-cappelli-14936a3/