Study purpose. Regarding Talent identification (TID) programs, which are an integral part of the selection process for elite-level athletes, authors detected a lack evidence, as surprisingly little research has been conducted to elucidate effects Change Direction (COD) test performance on TID in basketball. This study aimed to: i) analyze anthropometrical measures, variables COD and talents val...

In HRM, among the challenges for HR professionals is to manage an organization’s talents, especially to ensure the right person for the right job at the right time. Human talent prediction is an alternative to handle this issue. Due to that reason, classification and prediction in data mining which is commonly used in many areas can also be implemented to human talent. There are many classifica...

Most firms have no formal programs for anticipating and fulfilling talent needs, relying on an increasingly expensive pool of outside candidates that has been shrinking since it was created from the white-collar layoffs of the 1980s. But the advice these companies are getting to solve the problem--institute large-scale internal development programs--is equally ineffective. Internal development ...

The goal of this study was to describe patterns in the dynamics of families of talented junior athletes throughout their development. Parents, athletes, and siblings from four families were interviewed. The interviews focused on how family members adapted to the motivation, effort, and resource demands that often constrain the development of talent in sport. The results permitted the identifica...

In the current world, sports produce considerable statistical information about each player, team, games, and seasons. Traditional sports science believed science to be owned by experts, coaches, team managers, and analyzers. However, sports organizations have recently realized the abundant science available in their data and sought to take advantage of that science through the use of data mini...

When does a specialized rather than a general education system result in superior labour market outcomes? This question is analyzed in an economy in which individuals differ in two ways: innate talent and how well informed they are about that talent. Some learn early on about which careers they are suited to while others become informed about their talents later in life. Firms value productivit...

This paper asks if "higher education as a signal" helps explaining the comovements between college enrollment rate and skill premium for younger workers in the US from 1973 to 2005. In my model a continuum of agents, heterogeneous in talent and initial wealth, make schooling and working decisions: work now or take up college first? When college is very expensive only the wealthy can afford it, ...

When we acknowledge our purpose as the essence of our self, when we take all our power into use in an effortless way, and when we fully accept our own nature--including sex and sexuality, our purpose of life takes the form of a unique talent. Using this talent gives the experience of happiness. A person in his natural state of being uses his core talent in a conscious, joyful, and effortless wa...

In this article, we study the evaluation of talented early career researchers, as done in grant allocation processes. To better understand funding decisions, we studied the grant allocation process in more detail, and compared the notion of talent in grant allocation with more general notions of talent existing in the academic work environment. The comparison is based on interviews with 29 scho...