“They’re all Rare Finds” (Mike Mayeux, Novotus) – The Ongoing Challenge of Talent Acquisition

Mike Mayeux is a consummate entrepreneur, always cooking up great ideas. (Here he is, cooking for one of his clients).

“They’re all rare finds.”
Mike Mayeux, CEO, Novotus (Novotus, Reinventing Talent Acquisition, Austin, Texas)

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My brother is the CEO of Novotus.  He knows talent.  He knows talent acquisition.  His company is growing, dramatically, because so many companies and organizations need help finding the right talent.  Talent:  you know, the right fit, with the right skills and the right temperament for the specific job at hand.

So, I sent him my handout for the book The Rare Find:  Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else by George Anders, and we briefly discussed it.  Mike’s comment:  “they’re all rare finds.” 

That pretty much sums up the talent crisis organizations face.  We all know that there are people needing jobs.  And yet, we hear so very often that specific jobs go unfilled, because companies can’t find the people with the specific set of skills, and the work ethic!, needed to fill these specific jobs.  (By the way, hire my brother’s company – they can help).

From The Rare Find:

In 2010, business strategist Marc Effron surveyed a group of 1,800 human resources managers at big companies.  He asked if they thought they were winning the war for talent. Only 18 percent of respondents said yes.  All the rest felt they were either losing ground or stuck in an endless struggle where they weren’t making headway.

Losing ground; stuck in an endless struggle; not making headway…  As Mike said, “they’re all rare finds.”

Here’s my introductory paragraph “overview” of the book The Rare Find:

So many hires gone wrong – gone bad.
So many times a new employee or colleague turns out to be such a disappointment.  How can we pick better talent?
(How do we become better talent, worthy of being “picked?”) 
This book is about that search.
It is not an easy, quick pursuit.  But finding that right choice is a true, big-time game-changer.  It is worth the effort!
And the wrong choice?
Well, the wrong choice can be anywhere from a disappointment and an inconvenience to a full-fledged disaster.
It’s time to learn how to spot exceptional talent.
This book can put you on a journey to get much, much better at this…

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You can purchases my synopsis of the book The Rare Find, with audio + comprehensive handout, at our companion web site, 15minutebusinessbooks.com.