Thoughts & Research

Insights on hiring, science-backed HR, and what I've been reading lately.

Research Review Jun 14, 2023 1 min read

Analytics approach to employee selection

Interesting research comes from University College Cork. The study's subject is an old HR-Recruitment topic: how to minimize bias in employee selection. The researchers propose an analytics-driven framework that replaces gut-feel decisions with structured, data-backed evaluation criteria - a topic that resonates deeply with my own approach to candidate qualification.

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Research Review May 10, 2022 1 min read

Trip.com's remote working scientific study

While a lot of companies are drafting their HR-WFH policies these days, Trip.com decided to go a step further and actually run a scientific study. The results challenge several assumptions about remote productivity and offer a data-driven lens on how hybrid work should be designed.

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Recruitment Jan 19, 2022 1 min read

My top 5 recruitment-related scientific research

During my studies, I developed a habit of reading research papers related to career, hiring, recruitment, or HR in general. The reason is simple - evidence beats opinion. Here are the five papers that have most shaped how I think about the work of recruiting.

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Inspiration Dec 1, 2021 2 min read

The story of Erling Persson

Some time ago I read an HBR article about inspiration in a workplace and why it matters. It was argued that in today's culture, which is increasingly driven by purpose, inspiration is the multiplier that separates good teams from great ones. Erling Persson's story illustrates that perfectly.

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