The Recap of the Season - Talent First

Last week we reflected on whether starting Talent First was worth it. This week, we're excited to share a recap of all our past issues, spotlighting the top 5 most-read ones for you to enjoy.

Hey, we are Ramón Rodrigá?ez and Andrea Marino, Co-Founders at Nova, the Global Top Talent Network.

Welcome to Talent First, our newsletter where those who believe that talent is the most important resource in the economy get together.

Every week we cover a new topic related to attracting, hiring, developing, and retaining talent, as well as the learnings from our journey building Nova.

Summary:

?? Dive into our most popular editions of Talent First. We’ve put together a detailed recap, so you can enjoy a deeper look at the topics that resonated most with our readers. No more spoilers—just pure content to enrich your understanding and spark inspiration.

Top 5 most-read editions

Here's a roundup of the Top 5 most popular topics from Talent First, complete with summaries for a quick summer refresh.

1. You are Assessing Talent the Wrong Way. This is How you can Avoid it (1/2)

• Why most selection processes (particularly "massive" ones with hundreds of candidates) are wrong and how holistic assessments can be 10x better (more accurate, faster, and cheaper). Read it here.

2. Challenge them and you will win their hearts

• ?? We explore the biggest insight of the Top Talent Report 2023 and the science behind it. The biggest insight of the report in 2023 is that challenging work is the most relevant characteristic of a role for top talent. Read it here.

3. Layoffs: Learnings from the toughest moment in our history at Nova

• Our learnings from having to lay off 1/3 of our team. Like many other startups and tech companies, we had grown too big for our revenues in 2022. We thus had to go over the most painful experience as an entrepreneur: having to lay off people to save our company. We will explain how we went about it and what we learned. Read it here.

4. Turning Nova into a paid membership (1/2)

• ???Why did we decide to turn Nova into a paid membership? How was the process and the learnings from it??- This is the first of a series of 2 editions of our newsletter where we will focus on our shift from a free to a paid membership. We will try to explain the causes, our thought process, the implementation, and the learnings so far. Read it here.

5. Interviewing 101: A Crash Course for Founders, Managers and HR Leaders

• ???Interviewing 101: a crash course for founders, managers, and HR leaders?- It’s more an art than a science and there is a variety of points of view, but we try our best to present what a good interview looks like and what the best practices are to structure and run a successful team of interviewers to spot top talent through an interview process. Read it here.

Already breezed through these top five? Below, you'll find the complete list of all our featured topics—perfect for a deep dive. Take a look and check off each one as you go! ?

1. Welcome to Talent First
2. You are Assessing Talent the Wrong Way (2/2)
3. Unveiling Gender-Based Career Preferences
4. Your Best Employees might Be on Their Way Out ??
5. Turning Nova into a paid membership (2/2)
6. Building a Leading Brand the Nova Way
7. Cracking your Operating Model - How Companies Work & Make Money (1/2)
8. Cracking your Operating Model - How Companies Work & Make Money (2/2)
9. How to Build Trust | A Series on Community Building (1/3)
10. How to Build Engagement | A Series on Community Building (2/3)
11. How to Scale Organically | A Series on Community Building (3/3)
12. A Daily Stand-Up is... All you Need?
13. Analysing Career Paths for Top Talent | Product Management
14. An event designed to positively impact lives and society
15. It's all about Talent
16. Human by Design - What if your tech disruption is bad for humanity?
17. It doesn't have to be crazy at work
18. How to make the most out of fairs and conferences
19. What gets measured gets done - Our journey to OKR’s implementation
20. Let your people go surfing
21. How a simple employee’ survey changed our company culture
22. 27 editions later - Has TalentFirst been worth the effort?

Thank you for your ongoing support and for tuning into our journey. We hope our insights and missteps have been valuable to you.

?? Enjoy your summer! We look forward to reconnecting after the break!

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