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Performance Appraisal Systems: Everything You Need to Know

15Five

Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) BARS is a scale that assesses employee performance based on predefined behavioral statements and patterns directly tied to job performance. Drawbacks: Developing BARS can be time-intensive, and creating universally applicable scales for all positions may be challenging.

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Hypothesis-Driven Development and the Generalist Superhero

UVA Darden

The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests.

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Develop Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With 6 Practical Examples

AIHR

A/B testing everything will be incredibly valuable. Washington-based beverage company Talking Rain wanted to diversify its workforce to scale globally and strengthen its culture. You may also discover that images and videos highlighting company culture could encourage applications.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

Or are you trying to scale its success? In the book, I describe stage-by-stage how to successfully start and scale the central forces that power tech’s most successful companies — network effects. When a company like Dropbox, Slack, or Uber hit scale, it might seem like network effects kick in, and the next phase is easy.

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Travis – thank you for leading us at Uber

Andrew Chen

He’ll ask about the sample sizes on your A/B tests. Building an organization that scales from 10 to 10,000 people is insanity. Scaling yourself at the same time is grinding. From the part-time student teacher driver to the full-time driver in India, these are real economic opportunities at an unprecedented scale.

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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

In both the eBay and Uber examples, we see that you can start with a niche – whether that’s a geography or product line – and then quickly scale into a huge network of buyers and sellers. create a marketing strategy to scale the client base and increase visibility. Starting small, and what to do next.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization.

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