Tyler Cowen's 101 on discovering talent

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Matching talent with opportunity is great for economic growth. But when it comes to Identifying talent, we have a lot to learn according to economist Tyler Cowen. He joins the show today to talk about innovative strategies for finding under the radar talent.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	Well and long, it's great to have you here.
0:14.1	I know you think you're co-hosting for the indicator, but this is actually a job interview.
0:17.1	Oh my gosh, I'm getting ambushed.
0:18.7	I just want to do a little bit of a role playing here.
0:21.7	So I'm going to be interviewing you.
0:23.6	The reason is because when you're in a job interview, you present, I'm not saying like
0:28.5	a deceptive version of yourself, but you're presenting a particular version of yourself,
0:32.7	like a diligent worker self.
0:35.6	I need to find what is behind that veneer.
0:38.1	I'm just a pilot quirks under a cozy sweater, Darian.
0:41.8	I have what I'm told is one of the best questions to cut through all that.
0:45.2	So can you open up your web browser and tell me what open tab you know?
0:50.0	Oh, for the sake of journalism, here it goes.
0:52.8	Okay.
0:53.8	So I've got tweet deck open.
0:56.1	I have an article from the new site, the 19th about women and student loan debt.
1:02.4	Okay.
1:03.4	An ordering tab for my local ice cream shop because I'm trying to order an ice cream cake
1:07.9	from a husband's birthday.
1:09.2	That's nice.
1:10.4	And then I have like a shopping website open.
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