While providing consulting services to the governments of the Middle

East on how to build cities that are powerhouses of talent we at

HireLabs realized the true meaning of the saying ‘birds of a feather

flock together’. The same logic holds true for talent. True talent

usually has a hunger to learn and innovate, and when you create an

environment where talent lives and works in close proximity to each

other, you are on your way to building a knowledge… Continue

Highly influential Boards such as those at GE and Google have always kept talent development in mind when looking at long-term strategy. The Boards of these companies have relevant expertise, but most importantly they have access to several key line managers (the succession pipeline) who provide the raw data needed to construct a long-term strategy. HireLabs study of a recent McKinsey survey has revealed a few very interesting facts about how more and more Boards are actively pushing for… Continue

At Stanford University, we developed a concept called OccupationDNA. I

am sure that several others may have already experimented with this

concept, so we decided to take it to new level.



Just as any living thing has a DNA, similarly every occupation has a

DNA too - its what the occupation requires for it to be fulfilled. We

collaborated with data provided by US Dept. of Labor and developed the

OccupationDNA (made up of a collection of 275 traits that… Continue

The VCs must ask themselves if their companies are run by management

teams that are capable of driving companies as the recession eventually

bottoms. Studying the shift in the current unemployment rates in the

US, HireLabs can forecast a recovery in the international labor market

- lead by the US - sometime around Feb 2010.



Very few CEOs of venture-backed companies have the experience of riding

a company out of a recession successfully. The first sign that… Continue