When evaluating talent for recruitment or development, you have just two key questions to answer: What should you assess? And how?
The what question is in part context-dependent. (For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) Yet you’ll also be looking for certain universal characteristics associated with effective employees, regardless of their job or role. First, you’ll keep an eye out for the best learners and problem solvers — those who have good judgment and are most able to get the job done.
