A gentleman named Josh King who writes the Corporate Tool blog has some great points about talent being about cultural fit. His point is spot-on about M&A activity being hamstrung by cultural clashes. I look forward to reading more.
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When I recruited for strategic bus dev, I would ask candidates to walk me through assessment factors for acquisition targets and if they didn't bring up corporate culture, it was a big problem I(they probably weren't making it past my phone screen). And lots of people didn't make it past my phone screen. ; )
Posted by: Heather | February 15, 2006 at 06:04 PM
Agreed - Cultural issues have lead to the demise of many corporate M&A.
Is culture - so objective that Recruiters can go ahead and evaluate candidates easily on its fit.
What about the importance of PERCEPTION (recruiter's, candidates's, corporate) - in all this???
waiting to hear your comments
Posted by: Manish | February 19, 2006 at 10:41 PM