The secret of success for organizations is the discovery and application of their employees' “talent.” Yet, the most important matter is for individuals to discover their own top talent. Research findings show that each individual has his or her own unique inborn and acquired feature, including special temperament instinct and innateness. Humans’ temperaments and instincts act...

Almost 20 years after McKinsey introduced the idea of a war for talent, technology is disrupting the talent identification industry. From smartphone profiling apps to workplace big data, the digital revolution has produced a wide range of new tools for making quick and cheap inferences about human potential and predicting future work performance. However, academic I/O psychologists appear to be...

THE EXPERTISE APPROACH AND SKILL ACQUISITION Research on expertise is by definition focused on a restricted sample of individuals. Experts are people who consistently produce outstanding performance in their domains (Ericsson, 2006) and as such are without exception located on the positive side of the skill distribution. The usual approach in the study of expertise is to compare the extreme gro...

the aim of this research was to investigate the situation of talent identification process and to collect karate related indexes in iran. for this purpose, 63 karate subjects, male (n=31) and female (n=32), participated and filled in 3 special questionnaires to identify present and optimal situation of talent identification and most important aspects of biometric, motor capabilities, psychologi...

the secret of success for organizations is the discovery and application of their employees' “talent.” yet, the most important matter is for individuals to discover their own top talent. research findings show that each individual has his or her own unique inborn and acquired feature, including special temperament instinct and innateness. humans’ temperaments and instincts actualize natura...