In many ways, the biggest obstacle to leveraging Big Data in the search for talent may be HR practitioners themselves.
In the search for talent to run new companies, venture capitalists have begun to spend more time looking for people than finding money.
Tor is one of the few houses that still reads unagented material in its search for new talent.
On the plus side, the same market forces driving the competition for top new talent are also spurring the search for hot, young entrepreneurs with cool ideas to back.
Michelle placed second in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition for an experiment measuring alertness and anxiety among teenagers separated from their cell phones.
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And when she learned that she was a semifinalist for the Intel Science Talent Search, when she found this out her family was living in a homeless shelter.
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Responding quickly to the Gottfried crisis by conducting a talent search to find a new voice for the duck was vital for the insurer, Zuna said.
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At the same time, employers need to start rethinking their recruiting process, notably in using sophisticated social network search tools to go spear-fishing for high potential talent, rather than waiting for applications to come across the transom.
Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle has launched a search for an aspiring singer to feature on her next album.
Some women are blessed with a talent at a young age and have no need to search for other hobbies later on.
While only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born, 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.
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But the idea of a talent like Ledger dying so young left readers grasping for clues--and buying magazines in search of them.
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