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If organisations don’t change how they promote, better define and measure leadership skills, and recruit to include culture-fit, they will increasingly face leadership challenges.

To attract a diverse range of candidates, priority needs to be shifted from minimum requirements, like degrees and work experience, to assessing the core skills, performance criteria and proficiencies of the individual against the job tasks pertaining to the role.

To attract a diverse range of candidates, priority needs to be shifted from minimum requirements, like degrees and work experience, to assessing the core skills, performance criteria and proficiencies of the individual against the job tasks pertaining to the role.

If organisations don’t change how they promote, better define and measure leadership skills, and recruit to include culture-fit, they will increasingly face leadership challenges.

Whether organisations are using a recruitment consultancy or an internal HR department to recruit, the role of the recruiter is critical when hiring the most applicable and capable candidates. Yet, recruiters are overlooking an indispensable element, diversity, in favour of the X-factor.

Dr. Juan Swartz, Lead Scientist and Co-Founder of Pivotal Talent talks to CNBC Africa regarding artificial intelligence.

Pivotal Talent’s, artificial intelligence (AI)-based talent management solutions are based on “augmented intelligence”. While AI attempts to replicate the entire scope of human perceptions and intelligence, augmented intelligence uses a combination of AI, human intelligence and programming to deliver more people-centered solutions.