The document discusses how top organizations identify talent and the key traits they look for. It describes 7 traits that successful organizations seek out: desire to learn, efficiency, judgment, resilience, compatibility, self-reliance, and acumen. Through examples from the military, teaching, and business, it explores how resilience, overcoming challenges, and nontraditional backgrounds and experiences are highly valued. The document advocates looking beyond traditional measures like resumes and degrees, and considering character over specific skills when identifying exceptional talent.
18. Wh a t T F A Wa n t s
Toda y
1. H a v e y o u o v e r c o m e
t o u g h t i me s ?
2. I s y o u r G P A
s t r o n g e r n o w t h a n
a s a f r e s h ma n ?
3. D i d y o u b l a z e a
t r a i l i n t o
19. For TFA, Resilience Pays Off
Teacher Students’ Principals’
retention pass rates support
95% 86% 94%
20. What Are Some More Hiring Lessons?
The Military The Executive The Educator
21. First: A New Role for the Jagged Resume
• Rare Virtues
• Some Career
Ups and Downs
• Limited Direct
Experience
• A Maverick
Approach to Life
26. How to Pursue Talent That Whispers
Search in places others overlook:
Cities Under 200,000 People
Bright People Without College Degrees
Classic Gender & Ethnicity Diversity
Nontraditional career paths
The outer edges of your referral networks
27. Daring to Ask: ‘What Can Go Right?’
Athletes Actors Authors Singers
30. Four Takeaways From ‘The Rare Find’
• Competence Screens Will Yield the Top
Quartile; Character Clinches the Top 5%
• If You Can Decode Jagged Resumes, You Can
Spot Talent That Others Overlook
• Talent That Whispers Is Far More Abundant
Than We First Realize
• Many Talent-Hunting Rules Are Universal;
Enjoy the Lessons and Lore of Faraway Fields