Solving the “Talent Equation”

December 16, 2013 at 1:29 AM by Jordan Taylor

Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com, networked with two business school professors: Prasanna Tambe (NYU Stern School) and Lorin Hitt (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School) to write The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce.

This ambitious work presents theories and insights regarding big data's potential role in solving growing skills gaps, while also reducing cost of hire and time-to-hire.

Here's a video that highlights some of the main tenets and stats:

 



For more on the text and its authors, check out "The Talent Equation: Meet the Authors."

 

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