Talent Selection Brackets: March Madness Comes to Recruiting

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It’s that time of year again: March Madness is here, which means many among us have filled out our brackets and made our predictions about which team will reign victorious in this year’s tournament. (Or something – I’ll be totally honest: I had to do a lot of Googling just to write that sentence. I am not an avid sports fan).

More relevant to our publication, however, are OutMatch’s talent selection brackets, which take the general framework of the March Madness tournament (is that the official name? I am too lazy to Google at this point) and applies it to the world of recruiting and hiring.

OutMatch, the talent management software company that sprang out of the merger between Chequed.com and Assess Systems, started with 38 professional competencies and narrowed the field down to the six traits that are most important for success as a corporate manager.

In other words: If you’re looking to hire a corporate manager, you should be looking for these six traits in particular:

Corporate Manager Bracket

Want to learn more about how OutMatch arrived at this conclusion? Check out the video below:

By Matthew Kosinski