Talent Search Specification

From OSE Job Descriptions 2013

To recruit the executive team:

Critical Characteristics:

• Focus selection on experienced candidates with 10+ years of experience
• Focus Roles on ability of candidate to help formulate strategy and execution of critical, high level, immediate priority tasks
  • Filter candidates through ability to make positive contributions (either strategic or execution) in absence of existing protocol - thereby demonstrating competence or problem-solving ability
• For the Ops Manager - focus on personally mature, experienced or encore candidates who don't have something to prove to mitigate risk of mission drift.
• Focus on candidates who serve as mentors to the organization for all 4 positions.
• Focus on honorable candidates. who are strong carriers of OSE Culture.
• Focus on candidates who would like to grow with the organization.
• Focus on candidates with excellent rapport with and mentorship capacity to ED.
• Focus on candidates who embody both transparency (functional) and openness (philosophical) as part of OSE Culture.

Helpful Characteristics:

• Focus selection on candidates who are innovators in their field.

First-tier evaluation (1-10) of candidates will be based on each Critical Characteristic above.

Method

• Create Intro Page on the wiki
• Write complete role description
  • Find job descriptions for similar roles
• Get external review and assistance in wordsmithing of Job Descriptions
  • Karien, Renee, Cati, Adrian, Stephanie, Dan, Ruth-Ann
• Ask key supporters for support on identifying Talent Search professionals
  • Focus search on the 4 specific talent areas of interest
• Make an ask to the Talent Search professionals for 1 hour working sessions
• Gain access to industry standard Talent Search protocols by talking to Talent Search professionals
• Gain access to cutting-edge Talent Search protocols
• Apply a mixture of stadard and cutting-edge Talent Search protocol in our case
  • Create a Strategy
  • Execute