540: Making Recruitment Work for You with Atta Tarki

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Atta Tarki sheds light on the crucial practices that improve the hiring process on both sides of the recruiting table.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) The strongest predictor of job performance.

2) What makes an interview answer excellent vs. terrible.

3) The most important factors that determine career fit.

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— ABOUT ATTA —

Atta Tarki and is the author of the book Evidence-Based Recruiting (McGraw Hill, February 2019) and the CEO of ECA, a data-driven executive search firm helping private equity firms with their talent needs.

• Atta’s book: Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build A Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices

• Atta’s website: ECA-Partners.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Belief in the unstructured interview: The persistence of an illusion” by Jason Dana, Robyn Dawes, and Nathanial Peterson

• Website: Glassdoor

• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller

• Book: 1984 by George Orwell

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Film: Moneyball

• Film: The Karate Kid

• Previous Episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan

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