There are professional talent managers in every industry.
They don’t carry this job title or wear name tags, but they consistently hire better than their peers and build teams full of individuals who perform significantly above industry averages.
These professional talent managers see the churn in the employment market as a great opportunity to capture high-potential individuals, but they see hiring through a different lens.
If you’re aspiring to become a professional talent manager, here’s something you’ll do differently than your peers:
You’ll never stop hiring.
Once you have your team established, there is a tendency to think:
I need to stop hiring so I can better train, coach, and retain the agents I already have on my team.
This sounds reasonable on the surface, but professional talent managers know that growing a high-performing team is not a static process.
There needs to be a constant flow of new players on and off the team to find the true high-performers.
Think of it like a professional baseball team.
If you have a high-performing team, does it make sense to abandon your farm system? Of course not.
Up-and-coming talent will always be part of the equation for building the successful teams of the future.
