How McKinsey Is Transforming What "Top Talent" Means

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1:14And so we actually applied analytics on ourselves and took the last 20 years of data and said, what are the skills and characteristics that are most likely to make partner in McKinsey? only one in six hires make partner. And it turned out we had some bias in our system. I'll give you the biggest three. One was that we were too focused on did you have perfect marks versus did you have a setback and recover. And the applicant who had a setback and recovered was more resilient and more likely to be a higher probability of making partner. because we weren't indexing enough on had you had real experience in a significant way working with others.

1:58You know, fundamentally, we're about helping our clients change. And if you've done a team sport or if you've worked in retail, working your way through college, you had to engage with others. And it's built a skill. And then the last one was interesting. Did you have the aptitude to learn new stuff versus had you mastered the subject that you chose to study. But it did get us to then change our assessment techniques where we purposely create an environment where no human in the world will have any pattern recognition in this environment. And we figure out how well do you do in an environment where you have no pattern recognition, you just have to go figure things out.

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