Boss Class 3 - Recruitment: Testing, testing

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It is the most important decision a manager can make. How do you increase your chances of hiring the right people? Tracey Franklin, Moderna's human-resources chief, tells Andrew Palmer how the company scaled up at speed during the pandemic. Andrew learns what not to do when taking psychometric recruitment tests and a headhunter from Russell Reynolds reveals the secrets to a successful CEO search.

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0:00.0	Boss Class Season 2 starts on May the 12th.
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0:24.6	Over 1,800 international businesses, including 14 of the top 15 US technology companies,
0:30.9	have established operations in Ireland, creating one of the world's leading innovation hubs.
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0:38.4	delivers skills, support, stability, sustainability and significant returns. IDA Ireland, the National Investment
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1:03.2	With the highest share of STEM graduates per capita in the EU,
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1:33.3	Billy Blitzer has brought me to watch his local baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones.
1:38.3	It's the next Brooklyn Cyclones game here.
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